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Hall - "The Eagles' player asked me for a hit".Swannies for life!Comment
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"He was behind me and I didn't know it was him, I thought it was Adam Hunter."I knew him as a gentle young man, I cannot say for sure the reasons for his decline
We watched him fade before our very eyes, and years before his timeComment
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Hall: "I thought he was my new sparring partner".Comment
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Did anyone notice that Staker had his hand on Hall's throat before Hall lashed out? Am I imagining things or was there pressure applied to his windpipe?
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That's well picked up. There is certainly some contact from Staker to Hall's throat. Hard to pick up what he did, but perhaps he pinched it or something, or perhaps it was incidental.Captain Logic is not steering this tugboat.
"[T]here are things that matter more and he's reading and thinking about them: heaven, reincarnation. Life and death are the only things that are truly a matter of life and death. Not football."Comment
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No pressure on his windpipe as far as I can tell when he punches, but it does look like Staker rakes his fingers across Hall's throat.
videoI knew him as a gentle young man, I cannot say for sure the reasons for his decline
We watched him fade before our very eyes, and years before his timeComment
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I knew him as a gentle young man, I cannot say for sure the reasons for his decline
We watched him fade before our very eyes, and years before his timeComment
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I'm not convinced that fingers on the throat were the sparking point. He actually swung his arm just before then but missed. Hall was already worked up.
I wonder if something happened a bit earlier to get Hall so worked up. It was early in the game and he'd already received a free kick, so it is hard to put it down to just general frustration. But while Barry's done some dumb things before, this one is bizarre even by his own standards. When he throws that final punch it almost looks as if he's forgotten he's on a footy field.
No excuses. There is absolutely no place for what he did. Just seems an even more strange incident in the cold light of day.Comment
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I was going to say something similar (but I imagined how that would be taken). After the throat contact he seems to stop and then go bang.
It's extremely strange when it looks like Staker's actions don't appear particularly unusual. It will be interesting to see if anything comes out this afternoon.I wonder if something happened a bit earlier to get Hall so worked up. It was early in the game and he'd already received a free kick, so it is hard to put it down to just general frustration. But while Barry's done some dumb things before, this one is bizarre even by his own standards. When he throws that final punch it almost looks as if he's forgotten he's on a footy field.
No excuses. There is absolutely no place for what he did. Just seems an even more strange incident in the cold light of day.Captain Logic is not steering this tugboat.
"[T]here are things that matter more and he's reading and thinking about them: heaven, reincarnation. Life and death are the only things that are truly a matter of life and death. Not football."Comment
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I sincerely hope it doesn't regardless of whether there was anything or not. Whatever Staker could possibly have said or done (if anything) nothing excuses Barry's actions.
He's going to have his work cut out to re-win any respect from the football world but the first small step has to be an unreserved apology this afternoon.Comment
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Looking at the vision it does look like Staker continually was reaching for Hall's neck area....
and just before the punch he sort of "tweaks" at his neck....and that's when Barry snapped directly after that....
Still a disgraceful act by Barry but there could be at least some sort of explanation....Comment
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