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Alex McKinnon possibly Quadriplegic - Mclean guilty of dangerous throw - 7 weeks

How many weeks?

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    Votes: 53 42.7%
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    Votes: 10 8.1%
  • 7-8

    Votes: 10 8.1%
  • 9+

    Votes: 26 21.0%

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Spot On

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Melbournes press release should calm the tits of some in here. But no doubt there will be some who will disregard it.

It was factual. Can't argue with it just as you can't defend Smith's extremely poor behaviour at the time of the tackle. It was highlighted in the media in the days following the incident.

He should have apologised long ago. He didn't and so here we are. He can apologise now though. Nothing stopping him.
 

Parra

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Melbournes press release should calm the tits of some in here.

Cheating scum now make excuses for deplorable behaviour. Again. How is this even interesting? Or new? Or expected to change a single thing?
 

LESStar58

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So before the Alex McKinnon feature there's a quadraplegic bloke on "The Voice? Well played, Channel Nine.
 

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Nobody tried to shame Jordan? What fall out from that game were you watching, chief? I clearly remember the likes of Tracey Grimshaw publicly calling him out after he was interviewed by the News Ltd press and said something along the lines of "that is not an apology. Man up and do it face to face and not by way of a newspaper interview".

He was also the very public face of that tackle given no consideration was given to the role of the Bromwhich brothers in that tackle. Jordan was also stood down from the following game by Greenberg who played the ridiculous "player welfare" card (namely Jordan's) in the lead up to the judiciary hearing. And then I remember the fall out on social media when Melbourne exercised their right to an appeal (which every club would have had yet all the morons on Facebook seemed to think it was exclusive to Melbourne) against Greenburgs knee jerk reaction and allowed Jordan to play. Jordan was then heckled every time he took the ball up by Bullfilth fans in Perth. The only thing that extra week served was to give the media and the judiciary more time to contemplate the magnitude of the situation. He should have gone to the judiciary straight away given the circumtances. McLean was always a dead man walking yet NRL saw fit to play out the drama for another week before handing him 7 weeks on the sidelines.

no shame? You're off your head.

Wow. Just, wow.
 

LESStar58

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Wow. Just, wow.

Oh, no! I used a figure of speech involving the word "walking" in a thread about a quadrapelgic. Outrage. You should be on The Project or one of those lefty shows with your feigned shock and dismay :roll:

McLean was never going to be found anything but guilty once the prognosis on McKinnon was known hence the use of colloquialism.
 

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Oh, no! I used a figure of speech involving the word "walking" in a thread about a quadrapelgic. Outrage. You should be on The Project or one of those lefty shows with your feigned shock and dismay :roll:

McLean was never going to be found anything but guilty once the prognosis on McKinnon was known hence the use of colloquialism.

You're a Melbourne fan, defending a Melbourne player from a tactic that Melbourne perfected. I can understand your defensiveness.

But I just could not ignore the irony in what you had said. Poor taste. Much like your captains attitude on the night and ever since.
 

LESStar58

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You're a Melbourne fan, defending a Melbourne player from a tactic that Melbourne perfected. I can understand your defensiveness.

But I just could not ignore the irony in what you had said. Poor taste. Much like your captains attitude on the night and ever since.

No defensiveness in it.

Your're the one that read in to it as much as you did to think that I meant to use it on purpose while everyone else just let it go through to the keeper. My more recent post is to point out how much of a princess you are. Now watch the Lemmings follow suit with the feigned shock and dismay. Intended as a figure of speech and nothing more. I'm uncooth, but I'm not that uncooth.
 

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No defensiveness in it.

Your're the one that read in to it as much as you did to think that I meant to use it on purpose while everyone else just let it go through to the keeper. My more recent post is to point out how much of a princess you are. Now watch the Lemmings follow suit with the feigned shock and dismay. Intended as a figure of speech and nothing more. I'm uncooth, but I'm not that uncooth.

Oh ok. I read too much into your figure of speech. What's this then?

So before the Alex McKinnon feature there's a quadraplegic bloke on "The Voice? Well played, Channel Nine.
 

LESStar58

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Oh ok. I read too much into your figure of speech. What's this then?

Tactical move by Channel Nine to win the ratings... and uncooth but I'm just saying what others are surely thinking.

I remember seeing the promos for this interview the night of Origin 2. If Channel nine weren't deliberately holding on to this interview to run in conjunction with the presence of another fella in Alex's position on another one of their high ratings shows then I'm not here.
 
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Desert Qlder

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Tactical move by Channel Nine to win the ratings... and uncooth but I'm just saying what others are surely thinking.

I remember seeing the promos for this interview the night of Origin 2. If Channel nine weren't deliberately holding on to this interview to run in conjunction with the presence of another fella in Alex's position on another one of their high ratings shows then I'm not here.

The manipulations of the media escape many, hence their success with the masses.
 

shiznit

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Maaaan.... If I'm Cameron Smith I don't say another word infront of a Ch9 camera ever again.

What a f**king carve up...
 

Parra

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WTF is that supposed to mean??

What the f**k is normal about this whole situation?

It's not that unusual. Too many young guys suffer these serious injuries.

Some empathy is normal.

That is wtf normal is in these situations.

Unless you live in your own personal bubble.
 

macavity

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That's akin to me claiming all Knights fans are scum for some of their club's past indiscretions.

Pull your head in, fella. You wouldn't know the first thing about me personally.

Don't give a shit about you personally, champ.

Your club is a blight on the game, and you muppets are apologists for it. It's embarrassing.

Chicken wings, crushers, grappling, cheating, rorting, deliberately and severely injuring players... and blaming everyone else for it. It's the storm way.

Just look at this thread - according to you lot it isn't that the Storm have taught their players to be reckless with the well-being of other players, it isn't that your captain is a classless gimp.... no, it's that the media is picking on you. Just clueless.
 
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Desert Qlder

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Don't give a shit about you personally, champ.

Your club is a blight on the game, and you muppets are apologists for it. It's embarrassing.

Chicken wings, crushers, grappling, cheating, rorting, deliberately and severely injuring players... and blaming everyone else for it. It's the storm way.

Just look at this thread - according to you lot it isn't that the Storm have taught their players to be reckless with the well-being of other players, it isn't that your captain is a classless gimp.... no, it's that the media is picking on you. Just clueless.

A Knights fan lecturing another club on their culture.

You've gone through the looking glass fella.
 
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