Incident involving Tom Boyd and Zaine Cordy - Statement

[Eastdog]

Re: Incident involving Tom Boyd and Zaine Cordy - Statement

If it were a glassing Tom would be on remand or bail (intentionally causing serious injury & assault with a weapon, the former being a top level serious indictable offence). What gutter & irresponsible reporting. Tom has the money to sue them, and maybe he should.

They need to get their facts straight.

[Ozza]

Re: Incident involving Tom Boyd and Zaine Cordy - Statement

I'm not going to feign outrage about this incident. The incident itself is possibly being made to be a bigger deal than it needs to be. However, it would be nice is either player got a run on the board (let alone 'some runs') before they got in the papers for the wrong reasons.

[GVGjr]

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I can't help but feel the club threw them under a bus publicly. Rumors always float around we can deny and deny then punish in house. I don't see the point in creating public back lash I'd rather we kept things behind the walls. We've held it out of the public for this long just keep denying.

I don't know the full story here but my feel on it is we're to quick to shame our players when something goes wrong.

Before anyone jumps on me I don't condone violent behavior at all.

They're not children and I believe the club should not try and cover it up. This shouldn't be seen as the club shaming the players. The players should be ashamed of their actions but I feel the club is obligated to simply give people the facts. It's stupidity but not serious.

We had Bevo saying Tom Boyd was close to playing earlier in the week and now he won't even be selected for Footscray. A mate said we should now be considering sending him for surgery on his shoulder because his season is as good as done. I'm not sure I agree but when could we realistically expect to see him back in consideration for senior selection?

[dukedog]

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Unless Barrett has already written it. It will be the sliding doors for sure. In saying that. Not hard to re write that P.O.S article in 5 minutes anyway. Blown up i suspect. Dogs got in first before barrett blew it up saying we were hiding it

[Missing Dog]

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They're not children and I believe the club should not try and cover it up. This shouldn't be seen as the club shaming the players. The players should be ashamed of their actions but I feel the club is obligated to simply give people the facts. It's stupidity but not serious.

We had Bevo saying Tom Boyd was close to playing earlier in the week and now he won't even be selected for Footscray. A mate said we should now be considering sending him for surgery on his shoulder because his season is as good as done. I'm not sure I agree but when could we realistically expect to see him back in consideration for senior selection?

The statement says not eligible for AFL selection. Assume still able to play for Footscray.

[Axe Man]

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They're not children and I believe the club should not try and cover it up. This shouldn't be seen as the club shaming the players. The players should be ashamed of their actions but I feel the club is obligated to simply give people the facts. It's stupidity but not serious.

We had Bevo saying Tom Boyd was close to playing earlier in the week and now he won't even be selected for Footscray. A mate said we should now be considering sending him for surgery on his shoulder because his season is as good as done. I'm not sure I agree but when could we realistically expect to see him back in consideration for senior selection?

Where have you got that from? The statement says they won't be considered for AFL selection - I expect Tom will play VFL.

[Bulldog4life]

Re: Incident involving Tom Boyd and Zaine Cordy - Statement

They're not children and I believe the club should not try and cover it up. This shouldn't be seen as the club shaming the players. The players should be ashamed of their actions but I feel the club is obligated to simply give people the facts. It's stupidity but not serious.

We had Bevo saying Tom Boyd was close to playing earlier in the week and now he won't even be selected for Footscray. A mate said we should now be considering sending him for surgery on his shoulder because his season is as good as done. I'm not sure I agree but when could we realistically expect to see him back in consideration for senior selection?

The way I read it I thought they could play VFL but not AFL. Might be wrong.

[Hotdog60]

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I think I'm a bit more concerned about them being pissed during the middle of the season.
Not that they can't have a drink but know when to stop. I also thought most if not all clubs don't like their players getting on the sauce during the season.

[GVGjr]

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The statement says not eligible for AFL selection. Assume still able to play for Footscray.

Where have you got that from? The statement says they won't be considered for AFL selection - I expect Tom will play VFL.

The way I read it I thought they could play VFL but not AFL. Might be wrong.

Looks like I might have read that wrong. We will know soon enough.

[dukedog]

Re: Incident involving Tom Boyd and Zaine Cordy - Statement

What is getting drunk and or 'on the sauce' ? Blokes can drink 10 beers act like they have had none. We dont know if they had one beer and kicked off. One might have said something to the other that he didnt like. Turn it up barretts!!!

[The Pie Man]

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Robbo on SEN

Best mates
11pm at an inner city pub post VFL game
Words said, punch thrown
One stitch required
Zaine tried to cover it up as they're still close

[Nuggety Back Pocket]

Re: Incident involving Tom Boyd and Zaine Cordy - Statement

This incident reflects poorly on our Club coming at such a critical time of the season. A five thousand dollar fine is like a gentle tap on the hand given Boyd's massive highly overpaid contract.unfortunately our Club has had a history of incidents like this over too many years which reflects poorly on our professionalism. At a time that Tom Boyd was expected to be in strong contention for senior selection this week we now find he has been suspended indefinitely.The hope is that we can now overcome this incident by defeating the Sydney Swans.

[hujsh]

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Damien Barrett via twitter :-
Bulldogs were hellbent on covering this Boyd incident up. Went to extraordinary lengths. Very embarrassing for them

Damien Barret is like Trump of ALF media. Tweets and journalism are embarrassing. Sad.

[comrade]

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Hawks have been hounded by off field controversy over the last decade (injunction, Hodge over limit, sexual assault claims, Brian Lake and his wife publicly fighting while intoxicated, Brad Hill driving infringements). Hasn't hurt their on field success.

Leicester City were embroiled in a huge off field saga that cost them their coach and players. They then went on to win the EPL.

Cleveland sacked their coach earlier THIS season and went on to beat one of the best teams ever.

This is a huge beat up if ever I've seen one.

[Sedat]

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Boyd being publicly chastened is not a bad thing at all. He will refocus and put his best foot forward.

The rest is just white noise. Forget about Barrett - he was beaten to the story by the Dogs and is just dirty about it. For a supposed news breaker, he breaks bugger-all stories.