Oppo Camp Non-Essendon Football Thread XVI

[Old Campaigner]

The concussion thing with McCartin, you’d think every boxer is doomed and wonder how it can continue be a sport. Never gets mentioned though.

Repeated traumatic brain injury would explain morons like Andrew Tate...

 

[Phone]

that’s true but i don’t think he’s ever looked this average throughout his career

apart from the first five years of it?

 

[fishardansin]

Harleye Reide

 

[BomberFan355]

Difference is boxers go into it knowing they’ll get head injuries and happily take that risk, same as ufc. They’re happy to take the risk to potentially set them up for life.

Fair enough, I’m sure Paddy has enough info now to make his own decision on if he wants to continue and take the risk.

 

[Sporno 4 Pyros]

Is Lynch and Nank out until at least the bye you’d think goodnight nurse for Richmond?

The 2023 first round picks that Richmond and Freo gave up are looking pretty nice at the moment.
Those picks could easily fall in the 4-7 range the way they are tracking.

 

[crackers65]

Is it bad that I don't feel one iota of sorrow for anything that Sam Mitchell touches and fails?

NO

 

[citizen-erased]

Carlton has some good lawyers

 

[jannissary]

Carlton has some good lawyers

was expected, i feel like the teams that're perceived as being "good" for the season will be given considerably lighter judgements and fairer assessments.

 

[MiguelM]

Fair enough, I’m sure Paddy has enough info now to make his own decision on if he wants to continue and take the risk.

If Paddy was a boxer he may have been suspended for long periods.

Concussion rules are much tougher in Boxing. Wouldn't be surprised if football codes adopt something similar. If they don't, the lawsuits will increase.

for example, a couple of Boxing Vic rules:

Medical diagnosed concussion: 30 day minimum non-fight period, successive concussions 60 then 90 days.
Four knockouts, technical knockouts or concussions (or any combination of each) in 12 months will result in a 12 month suspension.

 

[BrunoV]

The only thing I can think of in favour of McCartin in that incident is that he's flushed himself, that it wasn't the sort of hit that means anything to him long term / that it's more just a strange looking incident.

It's not necessarily the biggest punches that result in the clean KO. My understanding is that it's got something to do with the angle the head and neck twist at, once punched, which closes blood flow resulting in that dramatic collapse. I'm not talking about every KO but those ones that don't seem to hit as hard as the other punches that land and take an otherwise fit fighter straight down.

Could this have happened to McCartin? His head was twisted almost right around, almost like he was sleeping on his stomach, at the point of impact? It wasn't really a skull rattler.

But then I hear that clip of him with Garry Lyon and all I could really think was that he's done a bit of gymnastics with his medical advice. Not that I believe the basic claim but, in any event, increased susceptibility to concussion, as a medical diagnosis, isn't really the issue where the main concern is the cumulative impact of big head knocks. Not to mention that Paddy is already clearly more susceptible to concussion.

 

[Zach Package]

The AFL have decided that they’re going to stamp out unwanted behaviour on and off the field by doing absolutely nothing about them, and then bemoaning the results.

 

[Lore]

Someone was commenting the other day on the bookies product fees that the AFL gets, I don't know which thread it was in?

Anyway I was just cleaning out the camera roll on my phone and found this screenshot from about a year ago which seemed relevant. I think it was based on something Gill McLachlan said in an interview but this is more explicit numbers

 

[jannissary]

Someone was commenting the other day on the bookies product fees that the AFL gets, I don't know which thread it was in?

Anyway I was just cleaning out the camera roll on my phone and found this screenshot from about a year ago which seemed relevant. I think it was based on something Gill McLachlan said in an interview but this is more explicit numbers

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seems about right. it's really annoying to see so much gambling blatantly shoved in my face every time i watch free to air tv, even when the afl isn't on. i was cooking dinner on like wednesday night and they had the ****ing odds pop up at like 5:30 when kids & shit would be watching. it's so gross. admitting my age here as a zoomer but when i graduated high school there were people in the grades below me gambling on the footy on their phones during the school day on fridays. i never cared about it but looking back it made me incredibly comfortable because it shows just how embedded gambling is in both AFL culture & australia's culture as a whole

 

[scythe]

Tarryn Thomas

26

Tarryn Thomas

Age

24

Ht

190cm

Wt

83kg

Pos.

Mid

Career

Season

Last 5

D

11.0

3star

K

5.3

2star

HB

5.7

4star

M

2.1

2star

T

3.3

5star

CL

0.9

3star

D

7.8

2star

K

4.0

1star

HB

3.8

3star

M

1.3

1star

T

3.2

4star

CL

0.2

2star

D

12.8

4star

K

6.2

3star

HB

6.6

4star

M

2.8

3star

T

3.8

5star

CL

0.4

3star

continues to make one genius decision after another. Surely the Roos are smart enough to give him the boot by now.

 

[Beerfish]

He just needs some safe driving material added to his respectful treatment of women course material.

 

[Call Me Cake]

We might as well watch netball.

Pretty obviously a reportable offence

Pretty obviously people smoking crack.

Yes, you clearly are.

Another one.

 

[eth-dog]

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Another one.

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Well done, you got one call right ever.

 

[boncer34]

Well done, you got one call right ever.

One more than you

 

[boncer34]

He just needs some safe driving material added to his respectful treatment of women course material.

Staggering they still haven't sacked him. Imagine the pages and pages of posts from morally outraged North posters if he wasn't at their club.

 

[Old Campaigner]

Tarryn Thomas continues to make one genius decision after another. Surely the Roos are smart enough to give him the boot by now.

Jaiden Stephenson probably lobbies to keep Thomas around so he’s not the dumbest mother****er on an afl list for a change

 

[scythe]

Staggering they still haven't sacked him. Imagine the pages and pages of posts from morally outraged North posters if he wasn't at their club.

Have a look at the thread on their board. They all want him gone.

 

[boncer34]

Have a look at the thread on their board. They all want him gone.

Have a look at the thread on the MB. There's still a few that want him.

 

[Old Campaigner]

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Another one.

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Congrats on backing out the most low energy post I’ve seen in weeks

 

[raskolnikov]

What a piece of shit. From someone whose brother was killed by a drunk driver go **** yourself campaigner.

 

[jannissary]

at this stage north really needs to just cut his contract because he’s going to keep making mistakes & not actually change his pattern of behaviour