Mark McVeigh suspended by club

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Big Blow Hard

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Matty Knights just announced McVeigh was out socialising on Sunday and missed a training session. He WILL NOT return to the side on Friday night to play the Pies.

Very dissapointing Mark. Especially in light of having let the club down the week before. Kiss the captaincy goodbye.
 
Tough call considering what is at stake this week, but i suppose they have to be consistant.....
still beating the pies is important regardless of what is at stake..
 

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Big Blow Hard said:
Matty Knights just announced McVeigh was out socialising on Sunday and missed a training session. He WILL NOT return to the side on Friday night to play the Pies.

Very dissapointing Mark. Especially in light of having let the club down the week before. Kiss the captaincy goodbye.
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AAAAHHHHhhhhh :mad:

Absolutely shattered!!!
 
Shattered.

After his speech last year then to do his shitty suspension now this i'm so bloody angry with him. Good on Knights for not showing favourites and suspending him.

Can kiss the captaincy goodbye Mark, you just lost my respect.:thumbsdown:
 
Well that puts a cat amongst the pigeons. Maybe Mark should appeal the decision? :p

McPhee, Zaka, Jetta, Hurley, Quinn could come into the mix for selection this week i take it..
 
what an absolute moron - would have been a straight swap for watson this week and played an important role in the midfiled and instead is playing with Bendigo what an idiot - enjoy ur punishment....:mad:
 
Very disappointing, but exactly the type of action that makes us a strong club. Love that side of it, hate that he's gonna miss the big clash. Probably Houli in for Watson, I suppose.
 

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bombers2011 said:
Oh ****. We are now officially screwed on Friday. CMON McVegh I thought you loved the club??! I hope it was a good party...
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Idiotic statement :rolleyes:. One player does make the difference between wining and losing.

As it stands, McVeigh was no more than serviceable this year. He should come back through Bendigo for this if his attitude isn't right. First the AFL suspension and now an Essendon suspension.

Good on Knights for taking a stand, there should be no compromise for failiing to adhere to team rules, especially becasue of socialising.
 
Knights is showing a ZERO TOLERANCE policy and that could only benefit us in the long run. Also gives someone else a chance, someone who wants to be there and put in the hard yards week in week out. Hopefully Mark will learn his lesson and be better for it also. Great to hear the leadership group agreed as well, just shows the understanding the players have about Knights vision and shows that they have a great deal of respect for him. I think its safe to say that Mark is well and truly out of the running for the captaincy and i should now go to Watson or Welsh.
 
Senior player, bleeds for the club, no prior history of any of this type of behaviour, must win game.... so what do we do?

Suspend him.

FFS!!!

There are better ways to deal with this than punishing the whole team and the fans that ****ing buy memberships and want us to see our club play finals.

Bullshit decision.
 
Very disappointed with Mark.
He has always come across has being so passionate and he bleeds the red for black for Essendon no doubt about it, but he cant be missing training sessions because he is out socialising. Just a careless act. He hasn't let only fans down, but the playing group, staff etc, who in turn might over look his position has next captain.

Knights is doing the right thing in suspending him,
It's not like our season is over, we have a few good clashes coming up and are sitting in 7th spot.
Mark isn't the first player to be suspended from missing a training session for socialising.

I was really looking forward to having Mark back this week to fill Jobe's spot...

Silly silly man. :(

Look forward to seeing him out there against Sydney...
 
Terrible, but I agree with them...how would Andrew Lovett feel if McVeigh got away with it...it's the right move IMO.

As for this first offence nonsense mentioned above, sorry but I think you're wrong. Nip things in the butt early and your less likely to pay for it later dwon the track.

I don't think this hurts McVeigh's chances of becoming Captain. By the time the captaincy is up for grabs, he'll be back playing great football and these past few weeks will be all but forgotten.
 
Mark is probably my favourite player at Essendon. Very disappointing but well done to Knights and the leadership group.

I still think he will get the captaincy. This incident will be a wake up call and watchout when he plays in two weeks.
 
That's 2 weeks in a row he's let us down. With huge games coming up too.

Good decision by Knighta and the leadership group.

Knighta has not waivered in his efforts to build a completely professional environment at the EFC. I applaud him for it.

As soon as you become soft or inconsistent in theses types of decisions, the club becomes a joke. Players will realise they can maybe get away with a few indiscretions and start to stretch the boundaries. The situation then snowballs into a club with an undesirable culture.
 
kelvin_sheedy said:
Senior player, bleeds for the club, no prior history of any of this type of behaviour, must win game.... so what do we do?

Suspend him.

FFS!!!

There are better ways to deal with this than punishing the whole team and the fans that ****ing buy memberships and want us to see our club play finals.

Bullshit decision.
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What other ways do you suggest?

I think the correct decision was made, and quite frankly I believe it was a very easy one aswell. Yes Mark is one of our best but just because that's the case he should be exempt from what is the standard punishment because we've got a massive game coming up.

We should be angry with McVeigh, not the coach and the leadership group. Kudos to Knights for his no tolerance policy.:thumbsu:
 
kelvin_sheedy said:
Senior player, bleeds for the club, no prior history of any of this type of behaviour, must win game.... so what do we do?

Suspend him.

FFS!!!

There are better ways to deal with this than punishing the whole team and the fans that ****ing buy memberships and want us to see our club play finals.

Bullshit decision.
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After everything Lovett went through to get himself back on track it's only fair to treat others the same way. What would he think if McVeigh got no punishment?

Nobody is bigger than the club from Matthew Lloyd to Kade Klemke. McVeigh can sit in the stands and feel aweful, work his arse off on the track and hope there is a spot for him in the team when he returns.
 

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