Rocket on One Week At A Time tonight

[Go_Dogs]

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Scott: "I know first hand Aker's teammates weren't happy with him"

First hand, Brad?

Seeing Aker is the only player on our list who has had any contact with Scott at any other club before, who does Scott have a close enough relationship to who might have told him that "first hand"?

Maybe Scott just doesn't know the actual meaning of the term "first-hand"...

When I initially heard Scott's comments, I thought he was referencing "first hand" because of what had happened at Brisbane, rather than there being a current issue with the Bulldogs - or having any first hand knowledge with regards to that.




Great to read the comments about what was said last night. Very pleased in the manner in which the club has handled this issue. Great stuff.

[Mofra]

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So let me get this straight:

- We rest Higgins for a game
- Flog the Roos by 70 points
- Rest in the 4th quarter with icing tactics/tempo football
- Hall cops a fine and the sympathy of the umpiring fraternity ()
- Hall is free to play next week
- We get positive attention and the Roos look like sore losers/bastards
- Eade publically backs his players a number of times and is backed up by almost everyone in the football community
- Kangaroos Premiership player writes a letter to his club demanding an apology for the tactics used
- Wayne Carey publically supports Hall

What else can anyone say except for "Go Doogies"?

[Curly5]

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All this has resulted in a resounding win for our club, as well as the 4 points. I'd say it's brought them all together as never before, and in a quiet yet powerful way.

Just about everyone writing columns (except Barrett, Anderson and Sheahan) has been very supportive and anti-North, including even former North players:

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/we-owe-barry-hall-an-apology/story-e6frf9jf-1225870791695

Even Sheahan has back-tracked a bit:

"As I said in the Herald Sun yesterday, this problem arose because the field umpires failed to intervene earlier.
Thompson is broadly seen to have gone too far, but defenders as a species believe they've gone "too far" only when an umpire penalises them.
The umpiring department announced a crackdown on defenders mauling opponents off the ball late last season.
Now we're going to have another one. Why don't we have a crackdown on authorities who fail to crack down on their promised crackdowns?"

Now we must capitalise on our moral victory and use it as a springboard for the rest of the season.

[LostDoggy]

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… Even Sheahan has back-tracked a bit: …

What a surprise.

I agree with Curly5, overall, I think both issues this week have helped to bring the team together. Aker's column has not only made the club circle wagons, but has probably brought an issue to the fore in a way the leadership group can address it without looking like a nanny-state — it's quite obvious many of our players are uncomfortable with Aker The Walking Headline, and would rather just have Aker The Best Crumbing Forward Of All Time.

Then, to consolidate this, Scott does us a favour and revs us up, making the players stand together beside Aker and helping ensure there's no split amongst our group.

THEN, to help us even further, we all circle wagons a second time and stick up for The Baz.

What we are left with after a pretty tumultuous week for the red, white and blue is a solid, unified playing group, with many of our best 22 on the way back from injury or form concerns — except maybe Murphy, we're sitting in fourth spot on the ladder, and until now we haven't even hit top gear. We're sitting second in the comp for quarters won behind the reigning premiers, have a healthy enough percentage for this stage of the season and now Barry Hall will be watched by umpires to ensure he's not illegally niggled.

SWEET!

P.S. Let's just hope Barry draws Fletcher and not Pears on Friday night.

[stefoid]

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Oh, Rocket did get them to run the tape slowly of Baz "allegedly" strangling Thompson, and you can clearly see that Baz has his arms up around Thompson's jawline, not around his neck! At no time was he is danger of choking!

I dont care one way or another, but out of curiosity, its quicker to send someone to sleep by applying pressure to their neck artery (carotoid?) than by windpipe... no blood flow to that half of the brain and its lights out in a few seconds. You see this in UFC from time to time.

Not suggesting that baz had that in mind...

[chef]

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I dont care one way or another, but out of curiosity, its quicker to send someone to sleep by applying pressure to their neck artery (carotoid?) than by windpipe... no blood flow to that half of the brain and its lights out in a few seconds. You see this in UFC from time to time.

Not suggesting that baz had that in mind...

Hall's arm was across Thompson jaw, not his neck.

[LostDoggy]

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So let me get this straight:

- We rest Higgins for a game
- Flog the Roos by 70 points
- Rest in the 4th quarter with icing tactics/tempo football
- Hall cops a fine and the sympathy of the umpiring fraternity ()
- Hall is free to play next week
- We get positive attention and the Roos look like sore losers/bastards
- Eade publically backs his players a number of times and is backed up by almost everyone in the football community
- Kangaroos Premiership player writes a letter to his club demanding an apology for the tactics used
- Wayne Carey publically supports Hall

What else can anyone say except for "Go Doogies"?

A good summary, I think after a few days of worry we have definately benefitted from the experience.