Player Watch Mason Cox

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ClaytonM said:
Think club needs to keep a low profile on this issue. Let the media do all work on the infringing of Cox.

Last thing the umpires or afl would want is to be seen to responding to a club's complaint.

Hopefully the media run hard on it and we can play a straight bat.
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I agree, much less to be gained if we make all the noise ourselves.
 
ClaytonM said:
Think club needs to keep a low profile on this issue. Let the media do all work on the infringing of Cox.

Last thing the umpires or afl would want is to be seen to responding to a club's complaint.

Hopefully the media run hard on it and we can play a straight bat.
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Bucks has played it brilliantly. Just answered the question unemotionally and directly when asked. No squealing (in fact ruled out speaking to the AFL directly) but clearly articulated the issue. Will possibly get more mileage that way too.
 

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I thought that Mason's kicking action for goal was strange last night.

Didn't seem to kick through the ball, very low for him and bent knee. Yet on the other hand his field kicking was okay.

Did he have scans for something last week? I really can't keep up with who was having scans after a game.
 
Maggie5 said:
I thought that Mason's kicking action for goal was strange last night.

Didn't seem to kick through the ball, very low for him and bent knee. Yet on the other hand his field kicking was okay.

Did he have scans for something last week? I really can't keep up with who was having scans after a game.
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Hurt his knee I think a couple of weeks ago, I think. Didn't look confident kicking.
 
noideaatall said:
Hurt his knee I think a couple of weeks ago, I think. Didn't look confident kicking.
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They iced the knee as well when he was off the ground. Was it last night or the week before?
Comms thought he was done for the game but turned out to be “preventative “ icing.
 
Black_White said:
They iced the knee as well when he was off the ground. Was it last night or the week before?
Comms thought he was done for the game but turned out to be “preventative “ icing.
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Yeah it happened in a marking contest, his knee got jarred from what I saw. He is playing injured like a lot of our team it seems. Good to see he can still produce whilst not 100%.
 
Mason Cox in The Sun today:

UNIQUE. I can’t think of a better word to describe the AFL to people from back home who have never seen the game, or experienced the roar of the ‘mighty MCG.’

It’s easy to tell them about the big hits, marks and goals, but when it comes to some of the individual nuances, that is where the questions really flood in.

There are some things that don’t need explaining but as for ‘finger pistols’, little men running around in hot pink outfits and some quirky moments in the VFL — even I still struggle to wrap my head around them.
THE UMPIRES
In a sense, they are kind of like Collingwood supporters. Everyone loves to hate them.

Whether it is screaming ‘BALL!’ or players and supporters looking around dumbfounded after 50 metre penalties, I can’t remember the last time everyone agreed on an umpire’s call.

But having not grown up with Aussie Rules, there have been moments where I have had that same baffled look on my face.

Early in my career it was the paying of free kicks. They point in the opposite direction to every other sport in the world! I can’t tell you how many times I have completely run the wrong way screaming for the pill thinking it is our ball.

However that’s nothing compared to the first time I saw an umpire launch a throw in facing the opposite direction. I couldn’t help but scratch my head.

Each umpire has a unique way of doing it and in my opinion, the more theatrical the better!

It probably goes without explanation but centre bounces are easily another one of these head scratching circumstances.

I must also ask, what is with the finger pistols after goals? Surely there is a good story behind that and I want to hear it.
THE ‘HOT PINK’ RUNNERS
OK so you’re telling me that those little men running around in hot pink outfits give messages to players during games and sometimes run longer distances than the teams themselves? Where do I even start with this one?

That was one of the most noticeable goofy things of my first AFL experience.

My first ever organised game of footy was a practice match among ourselves. The intra-club ritual, as I now know it. The black team had just kicked a goal and Chris Howley, a high performance manager at the club, came to me and delivered a message straight from Bucks.

I looked at him perplexed, not only at how bright his shirt was, but also as to why the heck he was on the ground telling me messages from the head coach?!

I had totally forgotten runners existed and haven’t lived that down to this day.
WHAT’S WITH THE 90S PHONE?
I’ll be honest, I find this whole process a tad funny.

So the coach sees a player out of the team structure and my old friend the runner tells him to go to the bench. He then calls him on a telephone, which for some reason is from the 1990s, and proceeds to scream at him through the thing.

Then, once he’s done, he smashes the phone until it no longer works.

What did the phone ever do to you?
PRE/POST GAME CELEBRATIONS
Fun fact: Collingwood was the first side to have a team song and just like many other team songs, the music actually originated from guess where?

That’s right, the good ole US of A. Every time I sing it I have a grin about that one.

Where else in the world though do grown men sing whimsical tunes in a circle after a victory while showering first win teammates in sports drink? Nowhere, that’s where!
I didn’t quite understand the tradition but after my first win in the black and white I have to say it is one of my fondest memories.

Well that and jumper presentations before first games.

It is not unusual in Commonwealth sports but it was a first for me with the speech and presentation of a jumper representing a sort of ‘justification’ for your hard work.

When I received mine it was extra special because it wasn’t a captain or leader but a good friend that had been there since day one and taken me in as one of his own, Darcy Moore.
Not only did he present my jumper but also was the person who kicked to me to join the, ‘First-Kick, First Goal Club’. Something he continually reminds me of to this day.

THE VFL
I think at some point in their career, everyone should play in the twos, just to experience what I consider ‘the original football.’

It is a place full of cold “tinnies”, wooden benches, small cramped change rooms and who can forget the essential microwaved meat pies.

And when you’re playing in the VFL, never underestimate just how close the fans, and in some cases animals, can get to you.

In my first game I remember going out for a warm up and after a few sprints looking to my left to see someone waiting for their dog to finish defecating within 30 metres of me. The field is a public park so I guess, anything goes?
There is just something intangible about the atmosphere and what the people bring to VFL and local footy that is contagious.

Overall a lot of these things are just normal for most Australians. Over the years I have conditioned myself to not think twice about many of them, but when someone who has never seen the game before questions these things, I can’t help but smile and say, “footy is just unique.”

I can vouch for his close relationship with Moore. At the dinner I went sometime ago at the club, mason talked about the close relationship he had with Moore.
 
Maggie5 said:
Mason Cox in The Sun today:

UNIQUE. I can’t think of a better word to describe the AFL to people from back home who have never seen the game, or experienced the roar of the ‘mighty MCG.’

It’s easy to tell them about the big hits, marks and goals, but when it comes to some of the individual nuances, that is where the questions really flood in.

There are some things that don’t need explaining but as for ‘finger pistols’, little men running around in hot pink outfits and some quirky moments in the VFL — even I still struggle to wrap my head around them.
THE UMPIRES
In a sense, they are kind of like Collingwood supporters. Everyone loves to hate them.

Whether it is screaming ‘BALL!’ or players and supporters looking around dumbfounded after 50 metre penalties, I can’t remember the last time everyone agreed on an umpire’s call.

But having not grown up with Aussie Rules, there have been moments where I have had that same baffled look on my face.

Early in my career it was the paying of free kicks. They point in the opposite direction to every other sport in the world! I can’t tell you how many times I have completely run the wrong way screaming for the pill thinking it is our ball.

However that’s nothing compared to the first time I saw an umpire launch a throw in facing the opposite direction. I couldn’t help but scratch my head.

Each umpire has a unique way of doing it and in my opinion, the more theatrical the better!

It probably goes without explanation but centre bounces are easily another one of these head scratching circumstances.

I must also ask, what is with the finger pistols after goals? Surely there is a good story behind that and I want to hear it.
THE ‘HOT PINK’ RUNNERS
OK so you’re telling me that those little men running around in hot pink outfits give messages to players during games and sometimes run longer distances than the teams themselves? Where do I even start with this one?

That was one of the most noticeable goofy things of my first AFL experience.

My first ever organised game of footy was a practice match among ourselves. The intra-club ritual, as I now know it. The black team had just kicked a goal and Chris Howley, a high performance manager at the club, came to me and delivered a message straight from Bucks.

I looked at him perplexed, not only at how bright his shirt was, but also as to why the heck he was on the ground telling me messages from the head coach?!

I had totally forgotten runners existed and haven’t lived that down to this day.
WHAT’S WITH THE 90S PHONE?
I’ll be honest, I find this whole process a tad funny.

So the coach sees a player out of the team structure and my old friend the runner tells him to go to the bench. He then calls him on a telephone, which for some reason is from the 1990s, and proceeds to scream at him through the thing.

Then, once he’s done, he smashes the phone until it no longer works.

What did the phone ever do to you?
PRE/POST GAME CELEBRATIONS
Fun fact: Collingwood was the first side to have a team song and just like many other team songs, the music actually originated from guess where?

That’s right, the good ole US of A. Every time I sing it I have a grin about that one.

Where else in the world though do grown men sing whimsical tunes in a circle after a victory while showering first win teammates in sports drink? Nowhere, that’s where!
I didn’t quite understand the tradition but after my first win in the black and white I have to say it is one of my fondest memories.

Well that and jumper presentations before first games.

It is not unusual in Commonwealth sports but it was a first for me with the speech and presentation of a jumper representing a sort of ‘justification’ for your hard work.

When I received mine it was extra special because it wasn’t a captain or leader but a good friend that had been there since day one and taken me in as one of his own, Darcy Moore.
Not only did he present my jumper but also was the person who kicked to me to join the, ‘First-Kick, First Goal Club’. Something he continually reminds me of to this day.

THE VFL
I think at some point in their career, everyone should play in the twos, just to experience what I consider ‘the original football.’

It is a place full of cold “tinnies”, wooden benches, small cramped change rooms and who can forget the essential microwaved meat pies.

And when you’re playing in the VFL, never underestimate just how close the fans, and in some cases animals, can get to you.

In my first game I remember going out for a warm up and after a few sprints looking to my left to see someone waiting for their dog to finish defecating within 30 metres of me. The field is a public park so I guess, anything goes?
There is just something intangible about the atmosphere and what the people bring to VFL and local footy that is contagious.

Overall a lot of these things are just normal for most Australians. Over the years I have conditioned myself to not think twice about many of them, but when someone who has never seen the game before questions these things, I can’t help but smile and say, “footy is just unique.”

I can vouch for his close relationship with Moore. At the dinner I went sometime ago at the club, mason talked about the close relationship he had with Moore.
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thanks for posting , much appreciated
 
Maggie5 said:
Mason Cox in The Sun today:

UNIQUE. I can’t think of a better word to describe the AFL to people from back home who have never seen the game, or experienced the roar of the ‘mighty MCG.’

It’s easy to tell them about the big hits, marks and goals, but when it comes to some of the individual nuances, that is where the questions really flood in.

There are some things that don’t need explaining but as for ‘finger pistols’, little men running around in hot pink outfits and some quirky moments in the VFL — even I still struggle to wrap my head around them.
THE UMPIRES
In a sense, they are kind of like Collingwood supporters. Everyone loves to hate them.

Whether it is screaming ‘BALL!’ or players and supporters looking around dumbfounded after 50 metre penalties, I can’t remember the last time everyone agreed on an umpire’s call.

But having not grown up with Aussie Rules, there have been moments where I have had that same baffled look on my face.

Early in my career it was the paying of free kicks. They point in the opposite direction to every other sport in the world! I can’t tell you how many times I have completely run the wrong way screaming for the pill thinking it is our ball.

However that’s nothing compared to the first time I saw an umpire launch a throw in facing the opposite direction. I couldn’t help but scratch my head.

Each umpire has a unique way of doing it and in my opinion, the more theatrical the better!

It probably goes without explanation but centre bounces are easily another one of these head scratching circumstances.

I must also ask, what is with the finger pistols after goals? Surely there is a good story behind that and I want to hear it.
THE ‘HOT PINK’ RUNNERS
OK so you’re telling me that those little men running around in hot pink outfits give messages to players during games and sometimes run longer distances than the teams themselves? Where do I even start with this one?

That was one of the most noticeable goofy things of my first AFL experience.

My first ever organised game of footy was a practice match among ourselves. The intra-club ritual, as I now know it. The black team had just kicked a goal and Chris Howley, a high performance manager at the club, came to me and delivered a message straight from Bucks.

I looked at him perplexed, not only at how bright his shirt was, but also as to why the heck he was on the ground telling me messages from the head coach?!

I had totally forgotten runners existed and haven’t lived that down to this day.
WHAT’S WITH THE 90S PHONE?
I’ll be honest, I find this whole process a tad funny.

So the coach sees a player out of the team structure and my old friend the runner tells him to go to the bench. He then calls him on a telephone, which for some reason is from the 1990s, and proceeds to scream at him through the thing.

Then, once he’s done, he smashes the phone until it no longer works.

What did the phone ever do to you?
PRE/POST GAME CELEBRATIONS
Fun fact: Collingwood was the first side to have a team song and just like many other team songs, the music actually originated from guess where?

That’s right, the good ole US of A. Every time I sing it I have a grin about that one.

Where else in the world though do grown men sing whimsical tunes in a circle after a victory while showering first win teammates in sports drink? Nowhere, that’s where!
I didn’t quite understand the tradition but after my first win in the black and white I have to say it is one of my fondest memories.

Well that and jumper presentations before first games.

It is not unusual in Commonwealth sports but it was a first for me with the speech and presentation of a jumper representing a sort of ‘justification’ for your hard work.

When I received mine it was extra special because it wasn’t a captain or leader but a good friend that had been there since day one and taken me in as one of his own, Darcy Moore.
Not only did he present my jumper but also was the person who kicked to me to join the, ‘First-Kick, First Goal Club’. Something he continually reminds me of to this day.

THE VFL
I think at some point in their career, everyone should play in the twos, just to experience what I consider ‘the original football.’

It is a place full of cold “tinnies”, wooden benches, small cramped change rooms and who can forget the essential microwaved meat pies.

And when you’re playing in the VFL, never underestimate just how close the fans, and in some cases animals, can get to you.

In my first game I remember going out for a warm up and after a few sprints looking to my left to see someone waiting for their dog to finish defecating within 30 metres of me. The field is a public park so I guess, anything goes?
There is just something intangible about the atmosphere and what the people bring to VFL and local footy that is contagious.

Overall a lot of these things are just normal for most Australians. Over the years I have conditioned myself to not think twice about many of them, but when someone who has never seen the game before questions these things, I can’t help but smile and say, “footy is just unique.”

I can vouch for his close relationship with Moore. At the dinner I went sometime ago at the club, mason talked about the close relationship he had with Moore.
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Love to read and hear what Mason has to say. He remains determinedly unconventional. No AFL speak from the big guy, but funny insights and a very balanced view of the footy world.
 

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Vicky Park said:
Love to read and hear what Mason has to say. He remains determinedly unconventional. No AFL speak from the big guy, but funny insights and a very balanced view of the footy world.
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I’m not a fan of the USofA, or it’s septics.
But Mason has an Australian sense of humour.
Don’t think he had it originally, but has embraced our culture and our humour. If he hadn’t I doubt he would have lasted.
 
Black_White said:
I’m not a fan of the USofA, or it’s septics.
But Mason has an Australian sense of humour.
Don’t think he had it originally, but has embraced our culture and our humour. If he hadn’t I doubt he would have lasted.
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I can’t agree on damning an entire nation. And I’m sure Mason had his sense of humour long before he reached our shores. Seeing the ridiculous in things is not an exclusive Australian trait.

Saying that, I’m also glad he has embraced us, doubly so because he plays for the Pies.
 
Vicky Park said:
I can’t agree on damning an entire nation. And I’m sure Mason had his sense of humour long before he reached our shores. Seeing the ridiculous in things is not an exclusive Australian trait.

Saying that, I’m also glad he has embraced us, doubly so because he plays for the Pies.
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Where’s the fun in not damning the entire nation?
Just remember I’m married to a French woman. And we lived rough the time of the French atomic tests in the South Pacific, as well as the Rainbow Warrior incident.
I can tell you now that damning a whole nation, and it’s people, is certainly an Australian trait.
 
Black_White said:
Where’s the fun in not damning the entire nation?
Just remember I’m married to a French woman. And we lived rough the time of the French atomic tests in the South Pacific, as well as the Rainbow Warrior incident.
I can tell you now that damning a whole nation, and it’s people, is certainly an Australian trait.
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Not a trait I share.

A long time way off topic, but Fraser Anning is an Australian senator. We as a nation could be damned for that.

Maybe, thinking it through, we should be. How the hell did that happen?
 
Vicky Park said:
Not a trait I share.

A long time way off topic, but Fraser Anning is an Australian senator. We as a nation could be damned for that.

Maybe, thinking it through, we should be. How the hell did that happen?
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He got 19 votes in the last election.
No, not a misprint..... 19.
Now he is one of very few, who have the ability to shape our nation.
I’m no fan of the coalitions attempts to alter our preferential voting system. I do like the sometimes random election of people like Ricky Muir.
But unlike Ricky, who took his election seriously and tried to do the right thing by Australians, 19 vote Anning has fallen in and has taken the opportunity to make headlines with hate speech.
Such speech could, rightly, see you or me put in front of a magistrate. But Parliamentary privilege excludes such repercussions for Anning.
The media have had their fun by giving him his 15 minutes.

P.S. Vicky, have you read today’s Age front page?
 
Special guest onTalking Footy tonight. Could be interesting.
 
Black_White said:
He got 19 votes in the last election.
No, not a misprint..... 19.
Now he is one of very few, who have the ability to shape our nation.
I’m no fan of the coalitions attempts to alter our preferential voting system. I do like the sometimes random election of people like Ricky Muir.
But unlike Ricky, who took his election seriously and tried to do the right thing by Australians, 19 vote Anning has fallen in and has taken the opportunity to make headlines with hate speech.
Such speech could, rightly, see you or me put in front of a magistrate. But Parliamentary privilege excludes such repercussions for Anning.
The media have had their fun by giving him his 15 minutes.

P.S. Vicky, have you read today’s Age front page?
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Thank whomever that, he is not our PRESIDENT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
Maggie5 said:
Mason Cox in The Sun today:

UNIQUE. I can’t think of a better word to describe the AFL to people from back home who have never seen the game, or experienced the roar of the ‘mighty MCG.’

It’s easy to tell them about the big hits, marks and goals, but when it comes to some of the individual nuances, that is where the questions really flood in.

There are some things that don’t need explaining but as for ‘finger pistols’, little men running around in hot pink outfits and some quirky moments in the VFL — even I still struggle to wrap my head around them.
THE UMPIRES
In a sense, they are kind of like Collingwood supporters. Everyone loves to hate them.

Whether it is screaming ‘BALL!’ or players and supporters looking around dumbfounded after 50 metre penalties, I can’t remember the last time everyone agreed on an umpire’s call.

But having not grown up with Aussie Rules, there have been moments where I have had that same baffled look on my face.

Early in my career it was the paying of free kicks. They point in the opposite direction to every other sport in the world! I can’t tell you how many times I have completely run the wrong way screaming for the pill thinking it is our ball.

However that’s nothing compared to the first time I saw an umpire launch a throw in facing the opposite direction. I couldn’t help but scratch my head.

Each umpire has a unique way of doing it and in my opinion, the more theatrical the better!

It probably goes without explanation but centre bounces are easily another one of these head scratching circumstances.

I must also ask, what is with the finger pistols after goals? Surely there is a good story behind that and I want to hear it.
THE ‘HOT PINK’ RUNNERS
OK so you’re telling me that those little men running around in hot pink outfits give messages to players during games and sometimes run longer distances than the teams themselves? Where do I even start with this one?

That was one of the most noticeable goofy things of my first AFL experience.

My first ever organised game of footy was a practice match among ourselves. The intra-club ritual, as I now know it. The black team had just kicked a goal and Chris Howley, a high performance manager at the club, came to me and delivered a message straight from Bucks.

I looked at him perplexed, not only at how bright his shirt was, but also as to why the heck he was on the ground telling me messages from the head coach?!

I had totally forgotten runners existed and haven’t lived that down to this day.
WHAT’S WITH THE 90S PHONE?
I’ll be honest, I find this whole process a tad funny.

So the coach sees a player out of the team structure and my old friend the runner tells him to go to the bench. He then calls him on a telephone, which for some reason is from the 1990s, and proceeds to scream at him through the thing.

Then, once he’s done, he smashes the phone until it no longer works.

What did the phone ever do to you?
PRE/POST GAME CELEBRATIONS
Fun fact: Collingwood was the first side to have a team song and just like many other team songs, the music actually originated from guess where?

That’s right, the good ole US of A. Every time I sing it I have a grin about that one.

Where else in the world though do grown men sing whimsical tunes in a circle after a victory while showering first win teammates in sports drink? Nowhere, that’s where!
I didn’t quite understand the tradition but after my first win in the black and white I have to say it is one of my fondest memories.

Well that and jumper presentations before first games.

It is not unusual in Commonwealth sports but it was a first for me with the speech and presentation of a jumper representing a sort of ‘justification’ for your hard work.

When I received mine it was extra special because it wasn’t a captain or leader but a good friend that had been there since day one and taken me in as one of his own, Darcy Moore.
Not only did he present my jumper but also was the person who kicked to me to join the, ‘First-Kick, First Goal Club’. Something he continually reminds me of to this day.

THE VFL
I think at some point in their career, everyone should play in the twos, just to experience what I consider ‘the original football.’

It is a place full of cold “tinnies”, wooden benches, small cramped change rooms and who can forget the essential microwaved meat pies.

And when you’re playing in the VFL, never underestimate just how close the fans, and in some cases animals, can get to you.

In my first game I remember going out for a warm up and after a few sprints looking to my left to see someone waiting for their dog to finish defecating within 30 metres of me. The field is a public park so I guess, anything goes?
There is just something intangible about the atmosphere and what the people bring to VFL and local footy that is contagious.

Overall a lot of these things are just normal for most Australians. Over the years I have conditioned myself to not think twice about many of them, but when someone who has never seen the game before questions these things, I can’t help but smile and say, “footy is just unique.”

I can vouch for his close relationship with Moore. At the dinner I went sometime ago at the club, mason talked about the close relationship he had with Moore.
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Thanks for posting that MB5, kudos! Sorry I don't do emojis??????
 

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