Opinion AFL 2024 Finals Week 2 - Weekend Wrap & Liked, Learnt, Hated SEMI FINALS EDITION

[peetoo]

There is footage online of the incident(s) being analyzed by footy media with slo-mo footage and in both cases Mitchell clearly leads with the point of his knee into the thigh of Walker & Fyfe resulting in them both being injured.

The media mis represented that. Walker played on but got an injury later in the game in an incident with another player

That footage was designed to present Mitchell in the worst possible light. But it was not the incident which resulted in Walker taking no further part



4 mins to go second quarter, but stats show Walker played 62% of the game. All happy to misrepresent facts.

Walker would have to have played a significant part of three quarters

 

[E Shed]

The media mis represented that. Walker played on but got an injury later in the game in an incident with another player

That footage was designed to present Mitchell in the worst possible light. But it was not the incident which resulted in Walker taking no further part



4 mins to go second quarter, but stats show Walker played 62% of the game. All happy to misrepresent facts.

Walker would have to have played a significant part of three quarters

And Fyfe? Who missed another 2 weeks when he damaged his hamstring trying to play through the bruising the following week possibly costing him another Brownlow.

Does the fact Walker wasn’t as badly hurt lessen the bad sportsmanship of the intent to deliberately take another player out of the game?

 

[DroppingTheBall]

That's right. Attempted deliberate corking is the issue, not whether the injury was too bad to play on.

 

[peetoo]

That's right. Attempted deliberate corking is the issue, not whether the injury was too bad to play on.

Except in both Mitchell incidents, he was the one playing the ball not the man

 

[E Shed]

Except in both Mitchell incidents, he was the one playing the ball not the man

Really? You can watch the Fyfe video & conclude he wasn’t deliberately trying to hurt Fyfe? Seriously?

 

[joe444]

Liked

Berry and Ah Chee standing up all night for Brisbane

The vicissitudes of Joe Daniher

The farce that was the entire Port v Hawthorn game - comedy gold

• pre-match fantasy of a Hawthorn easy win
• the fumbly stumbly game itself,
• yet another BS "Port / Ken vindication" reaction
• Ginnivan stuff

Disliked
Everything else to do with the GWS v Brisbane Final

• the pre-match indoctrination & alleged singing
• the crowd (and AFL "estimate" of it)
• the choke: seemingly Giants' only purpose to exist, besides being a marketing tool rather than a team

 

[bungalow_bill]

And Fyfe? Who missed another 2 weeks when he damaged his hamstring trying to play through the bruising the following week possibly costing him another Brownlow.

Does the fact Walker wasn’t as badly hurt lessen the bad sportsmanship of the intent to deliberately take another player out of the game?

Hodge was dirty as well. Kneed Lappin in the leg on purpose giving him a bad corky. Despised by the Lions until he became one, now he's a good bloke and Lions legend lol

 

[Choogler]

Loved the Hawks getting done, purely because it meant that their first rounders for Barrass stayed at 13. Had they won, 15 at best.