MRP

[AnnieH]

I love Patrick Smith.
He obviously doesn't get paid by, nor give a toss about, the hierarchy at the AFL.

As mysterious as all of that is the question without an answer: where in the bloody hell does Tippett keep his head?

Because we sure as hell know where the MRP keep theirs.

[Meg]

MRP

Hey but guys, Alistair Lynch said on foxsports this morning that among other things the fact that Stevie went and checked if Joey was ok (he did?) then it shows it wasn't intentional. See? All good. Move along.

Can we ban commentators too? He can join that clown Luke Darcy.

Would that be the same "good bloke" Alastair Lynch who was reported seven times for exchanging punches in an all-out fight with Darryl Wakelin in the 2004 Brisbane v Port Adelaide Grand Final, which was Lynch's last match before retiring? Ah yes I can see why he thinks Johnson's hit was ok.

[Triple B]

Would that be the same "good bloke" Alastair Lynch who was reported seven times for exchanging air swings in an all-out fight with Darryl Wakelin in the 2004 Brisbane v Port Adelaide Grand Final, which was Lynch's last match before retiring? Ah yes I can see why he thinks Johnson's hit was ok.

Edited for accuracy....

[bloodbrother]

If our boys can make it to the granny which I am confident they can ,they will probably face this mob again .The vast majority of swans players are clean but tough and I am quite sure all Swans supporters are proud of this , it is pretty obvious that they are not going to play the game in the same manner so we have to match fire with fire , if you cop a suspension out of it so be it but when two of our very best players are maimed then it is time to give back. I don't want us to be sociable swans if we can make it to the first weekend in October..

[56-14]

Would that be the same "good bloke" Alastair Lynch who was reported seven times for exchanging punches in an all-out fight with Darryl Wakelin in the 2004 Brisbane v Port Adelaide Grand Final, which was Lynch's last match before retiring? Ah yes I can see why he thinks Johnson's hit was ok.

I thought Lynch had some sort of health issues. Maybe wrong.

[Xie Shan]

If our boys can make it to the granny which I am confident they can ,they will probably face this mob again .The vast majority of swans players are clean but tough and I am quite sure all Swans supporters are proud of this , it is pretty obvious that they are not going to play the game in the same manner so we have to match fire with fire , if you cop a suspension out of it so be it but when two of our very best players are maimed then it is time to give back. I don't want us to be sociable swans if we can make it to the first weekend in October..

Longmire doesn't coach his players that way. The Swans play at their best when winning the ball is their only objective. We didn't do that against GWS, they put us off our game. We can whinge about the tactics they used but the truth is it worked.

[kilroyII]

Longmire doesn't coach his players that way. The Swans play at their best when winning the ball is their only objective. We didn't do that against GWS, they put us off our game. We can whinge about the tactics they used but the truth is it worked.

Well we are going to have start adapting, because the hawks used it with such success and GWS basically emulated it. We dont have to go the obvious, just be clumsy on purpose, like the hawks and now GWS. Trip over a player and land knees first, look away while knowing you are stepping on a players hand and then act like it was an accident..stuff like that.

[stellation]

Edited for accuracy....

haha! I remember watching that thinking "sheesh, if one of those actually connected it'd do some damage!"

[aardvark]

haha! I remember watching that thinking "sheesh, if one of those actually connected it'd do some damage!"

Wakelin v Lynch - 2004 Premiership Recall - YouTube

Funny!

[dejavoodoo44]

Giants veteran Stevie Johnson again proves his own worst enemy by Patrick Smith

Great article!

".... no matter which angle from which you look, the hairy orb atop Tippett?s shoulders is slammed into the ground.

It is ? and this is a wild guess ? probably the reason the poor bastard lay on the ground stunned. Just a presumption, of course, because we are not privy to the very interesting biology book shared by the MRP members."

Nocookies | The Australian

Yes, Meg, an excellent article and I do hope that a few more people in the media, use this opportunity to mercilessly take the piss out of the MRP.
With me, I don't even think that it's the total inadequacy of the decisions that really pisses me off. It's more the totally ludicrous reasons that they gave for the decisions. To argue that Tippett's head at no stage hit the ground, is an insult to any football fan who still has a vaguely functional neural system and any sort of moral code. The blase arrogance, that is required to issue official statements that have no basis in reality, is totally in line with the worst sort of modern management. It does not serve the best interests of people, who believe that institutions should be managed to create the maximum good, for the maximum number of people. Instead, it gives the impression that the system is being covertly manipulated for the benefit of a chosen few. And it leaves the average punter reaching for the nearest plausible conspiracy theory.

[Triple B]

I thought Lynch had some sort of health issues. Maybe wrong.

He suffered badly from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome in the middle part of his career. He was treated with steroids which became a hot topic of conversation, particularly from Melbourne clubs when he finally made it back to playing field a year later as he had put on a wee bit of muscle...

[dimelb]

Terrific article. Deserves a wider audience.
I have a faint hope it may be read in AFL House.

[dejavoodoo44]

Terrific article. Deserves a wider audience.
I have a faint hope it may be read in AFL House.

And I hope that the outcry becomes so concerted, that either McLachlan or Fitzpatrick, will be forced to hold a press conference to hostile sections of the media and have a go at explaining why Tippett's head never hit the ground. Should be surrealist performance art at its finest.

[AnnieH]

Terrific article. Deserves a wider audience.
I have a faint hope it may be read in AFL House.

They can't fine Smithy... he can say what he likes.

[CureTheSane]

Intent is the only key to me.

It's a tough game, and players get hurt. Sometimes seriously.
What is a sling tackle? One movement, two. I have NFI how to discern between them.
Based on that, I have no real issues with the tackle on Tippo.
Impossible to prove that intent was there, and if it was, it had to be a split second 'cease the moment' thing where both players were in the perfect spot at the right time. Kind of like a high mark of the year.

A punch to the face gets no penalty if there is no damage done?
Bit more force, break a jaw, and it's 8 weeks.
Same action, same intent, just a different result.