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  • MattW
    Veterans List
    • May 2011
    • 4218

    #31
    Originally posted by Hotpotato
    Danger has plucked em !
    Smashed it. But it was far from a lone hand. Fair play.

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    • Sandridge
      Outer wing, Lake Oval
      • Apr 2010
      • 2076

      #32
      Originally posted by MattW
      It's an intriguing game. All on the line for Scott. West Coast don't say die and believe. Surely Dangerfield will come.
      He certainly did!

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      • dimelb
        pr. dim-melb; m not f
        • Jun 2003
        • 6889

        #33
        Originally posted by MattW
        It's an intriguing game. All on the line for Scott. West Coast don't say die and believe. Surely Dangerfield will come.
        He did.
        And Hawkins may go.
        He reminds him of the guys, close-set, slow, and never rattled, who were play-makers on the team. (John Updike, seeing Josh Kennedy in a crystal ball)

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        • stevoswan
          Veterans List
          • Sep 2014
          • 8555

          #34
          Great last quarter by Geelong, Danger WAS huge......but Hawkins could be in a bit of trouble.

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          • barry
            Veterans List
            • Jan 2003
            • 8499

            #35
            Another big test for the MRP. Hawkings head punch to Scofield off the ball, and Stewart hip to the head of a west coast player. Prior to July they were both suspensions.

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            • 0918330512
              Senior Player
              • Sep 2011
              • 1654

              #36
              Originally posted by stevoswan
              Hawkins could be in a bit of trouble.
              Hope so. Comes across as pretty nice much of the time, but is always crossing the line with his high hits. Give him 2 weeks and teach him a lesson he’ll never forget and forever regret. It might be the only way that guy will learn

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              • Sandridge
                Outer wing, Lake Oval
                • Apr 2010
                • 2076

                #37
                Originally posted by stevoswan
                Great last quarter by Geelong, Danger WAS huge......but Hawkins could be in a bit of trouble.
                Anyone else have a flashback to 2005 when they saw what Hawkins did?

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                • barry
                  Veterans List
                  • Jan 2003
                  • 8499

                  #38
                  In my opinion, I think hawkins's punch is more suspension worthy than Toby Greene's face rubs, so we will see the full extent of the Victorian media bias on display this week. I expect a "poor Tom" campaign.
                  Personally I hope hawkins's gets a fine only as well.

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                  • KTigers
                    Senior Player
                    • Apr 2012
                    • 2499

                    #39
                    Originally posted by Sandridge
                    Anyone else have a flashback to 2005 when they saw what Hawkins did?
                    Yep. Maybe Geelong will use the Hall defence ("I thought it was OK to hit guys who were annoying me") to get the Tomahawk off.

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                    • 707
                      Veterans List
                      • Aug 2009
                      • 6204

                      #40
                      Behind the play hits to the head have to attract a suspension. This is the type of act the AFL said over the off season were going to be cracked down on, but as we know clear and fair decision making is thrown in the bin by the corrupt AFl to suit their own agenda.

                      If Hawkins gets off then it sets a benchmark going forward ........ unless over the off season the AFL has a crackdown on punches!

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                      • Blood Fever
                        Veterans List
                        • Apr 2007
                        • 4048

                        #41
                        Originally posted by barry
                        In my opinion, I think hawkins's punch is more suspension worthy than Toby Greene's face rubs, so we will see the full extent of the Victorian media bias on display this week. I expect a "poor Tom" campaign.
                        Personally I hope hawkins's gets a fine only as well.
                        Hawkins will get rubbed out. Intentional, behind the play, high contact which left Schofield stunned. Barry Hall luckily got off in 2005 because the fact he was motioning for the ball to be kicked to him just before he whacked McGuire in the stomach, meant it was deemed to be in play. Hawkins has no such leg to stand on. Even the AFL can't spin a way around this one.

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                        • KTigers
                          Senior Player
                          • Apr 2012
                          • 2499

                          #42
                          Originally posted by 707
                          Behind the play hits to the head have to attract a suspension. This is the type of act the AFL said over the off season were going to be cracked down on, but as we know clear and fair decision making is thrown in the bin by the corrupt AFl to suit their own agenda.

                          If Hawkins gets off then it sets a benchmark going forward ........ unless over the off season the AFL has a crackdown on punches!
                          Yep, the AFL will be cracking down on these punches to the head during the cricket season. No player will escape the wrath of the AFL
                          whilst on the end-of-season trip to Hawaii. They've had enough, and it's time play hard ball against this thuggery.
                          Last edited by KTigers; 14 September 2019, 11:28 AM.

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                          • stevoswan
                            Veterans List
                            • Sep 2014
                            • 8555

                            #43
                            Hawkins offered a week....interesting and correct. Lucky not to get two.

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                            • stevoswan
                              Veterans List
                              • Sep 2014
                              • 8555

                              #44
                              Just watching the Storm v Raiders.....it's like watching the umpiring of the Swans in our league. Raiders getting everything....and the commentary's much the same.

                              The Storm are just the Swans of the NRL.
                              Last edited by stevoswan; 14 September 2019, 06:16 PM.

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                              • Mel_C
                                Veterans List
                                • Jan 2003
                                • 4470

                                #45
                                Originally posted by stevoswan
                                Just watching the Storm v Raiders.....it's like watching the umpiring of the Swans in our league. Raiders getting everything....and the commentary's much the same.

                                The Storm are just the Swans of the NRL.
                                Totally agree about the commentary. They couldn't control their excitement when the Raiders scored a try.

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