Comparison: Sportsmanship

[Shane Heard]

It’s a brutal game. Not for the faint hearted.

 

[Nuwanda]

Stratton talks, laughs and jokes with his opponents every game, and after every goal kicked on him or not. He is one of those players, always smiling, getting his opponent to smile.

The pinching, not good, needs to stop. But my god people are acting like Henny Penny.

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Don’t forget the ‘stomping’.

 

[Footy 1st]

Yep, don't think he would have been doing that to Tony Lockett, Glen Archer or Jono Brown.

The first 2 I agree with, not so sure the Galliano bottle was actually as 'hard' as some fans reflect on...brave, yes...enforcer, not so much

 

[HirdsTheWord]

He's won three premierships. I can't be bothered counting it up but I'm tipping he's won more finals in his career than Essendon has in the last two decades. He's the captain of a great and proud ultra-successful club that doesn't give away that title lightly, say, just because of a bloke's surname.

Hawthorn built their success, like most great teams, on being super tough, and very hard to play against. They would have calculated, not without reason, that the Bombers are front runners who have a tendency to fall apart under pressure.

Tactic didn't work last night and a well deserved win to Essendon.

But jeez, win a final before you go potting three time premiership players like that.

Bloke got carried

 

[Ian Dunross]

Looking at the last few days of posts as a lurker, I feel the need to make a thread.

Massive PC uproar about Stack and Betts and their mutual respect. I felt that their mutual respect for eachother, both going as hard as they can, cultural history and obviously the admiration and respect between the two players.

Tonight, someone is so unsportsmanlike he hurts players with pinching.

This is their job. Stratton should be frowned upon, not Stack.

Treat others as you would like to be treated.

THIS.

 

[Johnny Bananas]

Also, how about Essendon fans wait until they aren't fielding multiple blokes who served year long suspensions for cheating on the most grand scale before handing out sportsmanship lessons?

One is nothing to do with the other. What a dumb post.

 

[The Warlord]

One is nothing to do with the other. What a dumb post.

They have everything to do with each other.

 

[WillHayward]

Stratton is a complete cheat and hack and shit bloke and needs to be called out.

 

[WillHayward]

It’s a brutal game. Not for the faint hearted.

No
ur a ****ing idiot.

It is physical and tough but that doesnt include pinching.

 

[The Warlord]

Stomping is completely out of order.

Seems to be a bit of a Hawthorn pattern there, Sicily stomped on Shaun Atley last year.

 

[Iago]

What is going on with Stratton’s tattoos? Are they home jobs?

 

[Shane Heard]

No
ur a ******* idiot.

It is physical and tough but that doesnt include pinching.

Wasn’t referring to pinching was i now my brave little pumpkin petal...

It’s a brutal game. ‘Twas all I said.

 

[dean33]

Fancy an Afl captain doing this... wow the hawks have gone from hodge to Roughie to this bogan. Not a captains arseh*le.

 

[juppy]

They have everything to do with each other.

No strawman, two different scenarios. Direct abuse against another player with the intention to hurt. What if Stratton broke McKernan's foot stomping?

For those tactics it shows how much faith the captain has in his team, which will be felt through the playing group this week.

 

[VictorianCrow85]

I lost count of how many times I've seen Stratton gut punch players behind play, well until they changed the rules to actually punish it. Not surprising at all he's moved onto a new method. The guys been a good player but he's definitely a grub and it's about time he gets called out on a tiny bit of it.

 

[Clems Knee]

Yeah, Ling, Brady Rawlings, Ben Jacobs did it one way, no pinching and crap, Crowley and Libba, well, yes.

No. Crowley didn’t pinch. There were no marks on the lying little rat to back up his accusations, and no vision of any pinching. The North Melbourne boys club on the tribunal ignored all evidence and decided Crowley was guilty on the balance of probability.

 

[david addison]

Terry Wallace shared a story today about Scott West walking off the ground at the end of a game in Perth almost in tears and covered in welts because the whole West Coast team were pinching him all day. I don't think Worsfold's gonna be critical of Stratton. He probably thinks it's fair play. The media spotlight was on Craig Kelly at a time when the whole Eagles team were doing it? Why aren't I surprised.

Here's what I reckon is going on - after the AFL clamped down on body punches, there was a spate of high elbows. Elbows were punished, so now we have pinching. The more the AFL tighten the screws, the more juvenile the tactics become. Pinching now gets attention, so no doubt the players will think of something else. What might that be? We'll have to wait and see. Won't be a long wait.

 

[PhatBoy]

Nice try Haha he was only the second most important defender (behind Lakey) during the threepeat era.

Even when you’re talking serious you’re dumb as dogsh1t.

Josh Gibson doesn’t count?
That Hodge guy that was largely used off half back?

 

[Xtreme]

Even when you’re talking serious you’re dumb as dogsh1t.

Josh Gibson doesn’t count?
That Hodge guy that was largely used off half back?

Gibson would be third or fourth most important defender of that era.

Hodge doesn't count as he was a floater

 

[PhatBoy]

Gibson would be third or fourth most important defender of that era.

Hodge doesn't count as he was a floater

Most of what you type is floater

 

[PhatBoy]

It’s a brutal game. Not for the faint hearted.

Mate boxing is brutal but it still has laws and codes of ethics (at least it is supposed to)

 

[Saint12]

Should be boooooooooed for the rest of his career

 

[Pessimistic]

Stomping is completely out of order.

Seems to be a bit of a Hawthorn pattern there, Sicily stomped on Shaun Atley last year.

Woah. A north fan is calling out another teams player for niggle?

 

[The Warlord]

Woah. A north fan is calling out another teams player for niggle?

???

Sicily got a week for stomping on Atley. Stratton up now.

How many North players been done for stomping?