Mega Thread Port Forum General AFL Thread Part 29

[Holden Hillbilly]

The West Coast Eagles are aware of an incident involving AFL player Liam Ryan in Fremantle on Wednesday evening.
The Club has advised the AFL Integrity Unit. Liam and his partner Evana are safe, and Liam will continue with pre-season training on Friday morning. The Club is working to gather all the information, will support Liam throughout this process and will make no further comment at this time.

 

[Holden Hillbilly]

Former PwC Australia boss and Carlton chair Luke Sayers is being investigated by the Australian Football League’s integrity unit after a “hack” of his social media which saw a picture of a penis posted online.
Sources indicated the consulting figure, who now runs his own firm Sayers Group, was referred to the AFL’s integrity unit last week with a probe now underway into the incident.
The Australian has repeatedly tried to contact Mr Sayers, who steered PwC for almost eight years left the consulting firm in 2020, since the incident last week.
Mr Sayers said his X, formerly known as Twitter, profile had been hacked after an image of a penis was posted, tagging a female executive at Carlton sponsor Bupa.
The female executive, who does not appear to have used X since 2017, does not follow Mr Sayers on the platform.
The image, which remained online for almost 14 minutes, was addressed by Mr Sayers who told followers his X account had been hacked urging them to “please ignore all posts”.

 

[EskimoPAFC]

Its a decent fight. Conducted himself well.

Keeps his feet, keeps his hands up, and no cheapshot cowardly crap which interesting for a bloke that played alongside Andrew Gaff

 

[Grave Danger]

In a rare move, The Age haven't put this article behind the paywall, so it's out there for all to see...

The options ahead of Luke Sayers after lewd photo scandal

The Blues are looking to minimise all off-field distractions as they look to win their first premiership in 30 years.

www.theage.com.au

 

[Holden Hillbilly]

CARLTON defender Nic Newman's season is over after he suffered a serious knee injury at training on Friday.
The 32-year-old left the track early after hurting his left knee and was sent for further assessment.
Scans confirmed Newman had ruptured his patella tendon in the left knee and the Blues have since ruled him out of the entire season.

 

[crafty_bernardo]

Ken Hinkley of 2014 would have hated Ken Hinkley of 2024 even more than everyone else does.

Ken Hinkley would have seen 2024 Hinkley and brough the fold out chair a lot sooner.

 

[simba_]

CARLTON defender Nic Newman's season is over after he suffered a serious knee injury at training on Friday.
The 32-year-old left the track early after hurting his left knee and was sent for further assessment.
Scans confirmed Newman had ruptured his patella tendon in the left knee and the Blues have since ruled him out of the entire season.

 

[VineValerian]

In a rare move, The Age haven't put this article behind the paywall, so it's out there for all to see...

The options ahead of Luke Sayers after lewd photo scandal

The Blues are looking to minimise all off-field distractions as they look to win their first premiership in 30 years.

www.theage.com.au

We'll have to wait to find out if this is a delberate brain fart by Sayers, or he's an innocent victim.
At this juncture, it's not looking too promising, but time will tell.

 

[Steve Dore]

Imagine trying to fight a professional athlete.

Because a professional footballer can fight better than random karate black belt.

 

[backtozero]

I always snicker when I read the words 'AFL integrity unit'

 

[TazD]

Because a professional footballer can fight better than random karate black belt.

I saw the video, that guy wasn't a black belt in anything.

 

[Buget]

I always snicker when I read the words 'AFL integrity unit'

It is an oxymoron.

 

[tribey]

CARLTON defender Nic Newman's season is over after he suffered a serious knee injury at training on Friday.
The 32-year-old left the track early after hurting his left knee and was sent for further assessment.
Scans confirmed Newman had ruptured his patella tendon in the left knee and the Blues have since ruled him out of the entire season.

Cripes. I assumed it was ‘just’ an ACL.

The patella tendon (Tredrea, O’Meara, Milera) is now the career-killing injury now that they’ve properly figured out how to rescue the snapped achilles tendon.

Nobody has been able to come back from a patella tendon rupture at anywhere near their prior performance/potential.

 

[Doctor Feel]

Cripes. I assumed it was ‘just’ an ACL.

The patella tendon (Tredrea, O’Meara, Milera) is now the career-killing injury now that they’ve properly figured out how to rescue the snapped achilles tendon.

Nobody has been able to come back from a patella tendon rupture at anywhere near their prior performance/potential.

At 32 its 100% game over.

 

[WalshistheGOAT]

Cripes. I assumed it was ‘just’ an ACL.

The patella tendon (Tredrea, O’Meara, Milera) is now the career-killing injury now that they’ve properly figured out how to rescue the snapped achilles tendon.

Nobody has been able to come back from a patella tendon rupture at anywhere near their prior performance/potential.

Sorry to intrude,

Not saying he's coming back from this one because he's getting on in age compared to back then but Newman actually previously ruptured his Patella in his other knee in 2020. Came back and had some fantastic seasons in arguably career best form.

Sports science has come a long way thankfully for many of these athletes.

My hunch is he'll retire, has had aspirations to go into coaching for a long time now and it's a pretty major injury to come back from at 32/33 years old compared to in your 20s. Depends on how we go without him though.

 

[Grave Danger]

I always snicker when I read the words 'AFL integrity unit'

It is an oxymoron.

The integrity of the AFL, in the sense of not wanting the Boys' Club to experience a 'rapid unscheduled disassembly'.

 

[Papa G]

I don't even know who Nic Newman is.

 

[It Just Is]

I don't even know who Nic Newman is.

You clearly don’t play fantasy. One week in a season, like clockwork, Nic Newman scores like prime Gary Ablett.

 

[Lagooner]

You clearly don’t play fantasy. One week in a season, like clockwork, Nic Newman scores like prime Gary Ablett.

 

[rogerjames]

Not sure we lose 2014. We had genuine momentum then. Nobody really blew us away we kept coming back at teams all year.

Agree re 2014. It was the last time I believed a Port team could be competitive in a GF. However, I still think we would have lost to Sydney.

 

[rogerjames]

I always snicker when I read the words 'AFL integrity unit'

AFL Corruption Unit would be more apt

 

[Interstater]

AFL Corruption Unit would be more apt

Ministry of Truth.

 

[Dylan8]

AFL dumbass unit

 

[Expat power]

You clearly don’t play fantasy. One week in a season, like clockwork, Nic Newman scores like prime Gary Ablett.

Pretty sure Papa G hasn't watched a game of footy for at least a decade.

 

[Flash of power]

Add socks with sandals and you could be anything from a science teacher to a pedo.

or Both