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I've said from the start the spitting stuff was bs and I wish Saints supporter hadn't gone with it.If Murphy did kick it off with drug comments, I don't agree with that. I haven't seen anything mentioned about that by anyone other than Saints supporters though, and they also claimed that he spat on him to start with too. Happy to be corrected if somebody has a better source, or it's mentioned in media somewhere.
But that doesn't mean that you have to stoop to the same level, or lower. Let Murphy look like the idiot if he's the only one doing it.
I haven't seen any reports about what Murphy said to Carlisle when he was down, but it couldn't have been much with how quickly he went past. I don't have a problem with giving a player a bit of a rev up while they're on the ground. I don't like physically targeting players injuries (not referring to a specific past incident, just in general) and I would hope that the verbal wasn't in regards to the injury (ie: 'how does your teste taste', 'hope you lose a ball', hope you're out for 4 weeks', etc). But a bit of 'we just kicked another goal you flog' or something along those lines is fine. I like when players get into each other if they miss a goal, or if a defender is being a dick and the other guy kicks a goal, or if somebody spuds it up. Get stuck into them for their abilities and errors, or how you're dominating them. Leave the personal stuff out, including drugs (although if you're stupid enough to post videos while using, you leave yourself pretty open).
The melee? Who cares? A bit of push and shove and jumper grabbing. It's good to see a bit of emotion and fire. If the Saints players took offence to Murph saying something to Carlisle while he's down, that's fine too. Nothing wrong with sticking up for a fallen player, but after the game Murphy was clearly furious about the comments and didn't want to shake hands. I don't have a problem with that either. If a player does that on a regular basis, or because of something little, they will end up looking stupid, but if the rumoured comments are true, then I think he was within his rights to refuse to shake.
Doesn't mean we should accept that kind of talk on a footy field. It should be frowned upon and actively stamped out.
Robbo in the HS today said Murphy kicked it off with drug stuff.
I sort of enjoyed the melee, if no-one gets hurt out of it I'm ok with it.
I also have no problems with Murphy not shaking hands.
Just not sure that painting this as one party being disgusting and the other party as an innocent victim is 100% correct.
Anyhow, seems to have died off now and hopefully we can both now focus on this weekend.