Rocket on One Week At A Time tonight

[chef]

To return fire at Scott.

[Yankee Hotel Foxtrot]

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To return fire at Scott.

Now that Hall has been cleared to play, I'd like to hope he puts a full stop to the proceedings, and let's it go.
I would be just promoting the fact that we didn't get sucked into the tactics and that as a
grop we focused on the more important prize of winning the 4 points and that any other team that wants to try those sort of tactics, good luck to them because our group will respond in the manner that is important, on the scoreboard.

Fantastic that Eade has come out and supported our group, but I think to continue with the rhetoric now would be pointless and perhaps distracting.

[comrade]

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Now that Hall has been cleared to play, I'd like to hope he puts a full stop to the proceedings, and let's it go.
I would be just promoting the fact that we didn't get sucked into the tactics and that as a
grop we focused on the more important prize of winning the 4 points and that any other team that wants to try those sort of tactics, good luck to them because our group will respond in the manner that is important, on the scoreboard.

Fantastic that Eade has come out and supported our group, but I think to continue with the rhetoric now would be pointless and perhaps distracting.

Agree. We won and Baz gets to play next week.

Time to move on.

[Mantis]

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Agree. We won and Baz gets to play next week.

Time to move on.

That was what Rocket said when asked to respond to the statement put out by Brad Scott.

[comrade]

Re: Rocket on One Week At A Time tonight

That was what Rocket said when asked to respond to the statement put out by Brad Scott.

Good to hear and I knew that's how Rocket would approach it. I didn't get to see the show - what else was said?

[Mantis]

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Rocket was fairly coy about it all, you could tell that he just wants the matter to blow over.

* He said he had a good laugh when he heard what Brad Scott had said on Friday about Aker - thinks those comments pissed a few of our players off as a few of them rang Rocket on Friday and spoke to him before the game.

* Said Gieschen rang him today to pass on a message to Hall that he handled himself very well and that the umpires should have paid him more free's.

* They showed 3 instances of "cheap shots" - all were Firrito knocking over players after they had dished off the ball. Also showed McMahon kneeing Picken & Cooney.

* Said we would have taken a suspension decision from the MRP against Hall to the tribunal.

[LostDoggy]

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They talked alot about the Barry Hall stuff, and I was surprised to hear Robert Walls really defend Hall and pretty much bagged the tactics of Thompson. Rocket didn't really want to keep it going when they asked for his response to the Brad Scott statement, he just said, "I don't need to respond, we are past that now and just concentrating on Essendon".All agreed in the end that the match committee made the right decision by not giving Baz time off. They then asked Rocket about the Aker stuff, after a bit of discussion, Rocket said that the leader group spoke to Aker today, and that as a club they would probably sit down with Aker and discuss the issue. Didn't go as far as saying Aker wouldn't be allowed to write any more articles though. Did confirm that he believed that the article was changed after it had been proof read by the club.

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!

[cinder]

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Good to hear and I knew that's how Rocket would approach it. I didn't get to see the show - what else was said?

One part I particularly enjoyed was when Rob Walls said that he thought quite a few other full forwards watching the Hall head-lock on Thompson would have been thinking 'squeeze harder' - because basically they're all fed up with treatment like that from defenders.

[choconmientay]

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* Said Gieschen rang him today to pass on a message to Hall that he handled himself very well and that the umpires should have paid him more free's.

This is now mentioned on afl.com.au

One positive thing out of the whole situation is maybe Barry will get more 'positive' attention by the umpires

[Sockeye Salmon]

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How's the integrity of Scott and Thompson?



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"?

You weren't told that "first hand", Brad, you were lying.



Thompson: "I couldn't breathe. I was seconds away from passing out".

The only reason you weren't breathing, Scott, was because you were so scared about what Barry could do to you if he so chose. The footage clearly shows Hall's arms around Thompson's face, not throat. You were lying, Scott.

[mighty_west]

Re: Rocket on One Week At A Time tonight

Rocket was fairly coy about it all, you could tell that he just wants the matter to blow over.

* He said he had a good laugh when he heard what Brad Scott had said on Friday about Aker - thinks those comments pissed a few of our players off as a few of them rang Rocket on Friday and spoke to him before the game.

* Said Gieschen rang him today to pass on a message to Hall that he handled himself very well and that the umpires should have paid him more free's.

* They showed 3 instances of "cheap shots" - all were Firrito knocking over players after they had dished off the ball. Also showed McMahon kneeing Picken & Cooney.

* Said we would have taken a suspension decision from the MRP against Hall to the tribunal.

Thanks for that Mantis, i missed it.

Great to see the Geisch call Rocket, and say what he had to say, all we want is some transparency with some decisions & interpretations with rules when they don't quite appear black & white, and if the umps got some decisions wrong or if they miss something, great, we all know they are human and will & always will make mistakes, they acknowledged that, and we can all get on with it.

Also great that some vision has been highlighted where North players have had little snipes or cheap shots, North seem to think that the only snipe was the 2 cuts to Gia & Addisons heads, which was a clear clash of heads, and not any fault of the North players, yet they seemed to think that it was the only bit of play the Dogs were up in arms about.

Let's see what Scott has to say about that on FC's tonight.

[AndrewP6]

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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"?

You weren't told that "first hand", Brad, you were lying.

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

[Bumper Bulldogs]

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This is now mentioned on afl.com.au

One positive thing out of the whole situation is maybe Barry will get more 'positive' attention by the umpires

#$@! He'll kick 12 this week if that happens. I've been waiting for just one of our forwards to get looked after... No just treated on a level playing field.

[chef]

Re: Rocket on One Week At A Time tonight

Rocket was fairly coy about it all, you could tell that he just wants the matter to blow over.

* He said he had a good laugh when he heard what Brad Scott had said on Friday about Aker - thinks those comments pissed a few of our players off as a few of them rang Rocket on Friday and spoke to him before the game.

* Said Gieschen rang him today to pass on a message to Hall that he handled himself very well and that the umpires should have paid him more free's.

* They showed 3 instances of "cheap shots" - all were Firrito knocking over players after they had dished off the ball. Also showed McMahon kneeing Picken & Cooney.

* Said we would have taken a suspension decision from the MRP against Hall to the tribunal.

Yep, he responded well to all the questions, wouldn't back down on what he said but now his focus is Essendon and has moved on.

[Mantis]

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Thompson: "I couldn't breathe. I was seconds away from passing out".

The only reason you weren't breathing, Scott, was because you were so scared about what Barry could do to you if he so chose. The footage clearly shows Hall's arms around Thompson's face, not throat. You were lying, Scott.

If so how could he jump straight up and try and headbutt Hall if he was almost unconscious?

I would have thought he would have at the very least been a little dazed after his near death experience.