That's ok Richo even the "greats" don't always get it right!

Agree with another poster on here.....l find it difficult to like Richo.

There is a stupid mini war going on in Robbo's mind. he is going to dig in on a point that there were only a 'couple 'of comments aimed at Murph ...not the barrage or 'sustained attack ' that the age reported.
He is unbelievable. He was out of step with pretty much every other journo and commentator as was Martin Flannagan...(surprisingly)-he weighed in without many facts on Grandstand, and made out Murph was the villain.

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That’s not a political statement — it’s a harsh reality, and we must act,” she said. “He is a clear and present danger to the things that keep us strong and free. I support impeachment.”

He played for Collingwood and coaches St Kilda. What is there to like?

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It's never as good as it looks and it's never as bad as it seems.

The one in all the papers about Carey? Or PM about something else?

Anything not made public.

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WADA medical director Dr Alan Vernec describes Essendon* FC drug case as biggest scandal in team sport the world of sport has seen. #WC2WB

#GUILTY

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"Hence you will not say that Greeks fight like heroes but that heroes fight like Greeks"?

Winston Churchill

The one at the dry cleaners? Oh no, wait......

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"I had to eat"

If only Setanta was there to give Carlisle the old 'Cloke' treatment.

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I will always love this club, no matter what. But I ride the roller coaster like I'm in the front seat and the losses really hurt.

This in no way is meant to sound like I'm defending anyone, like Richo, or anything that was said by scum.

I imagine, though, that in these types of situations, that club lawyers would give clear instruction on what can and cannot be said. PR grab hold of it, put a spin on it, and then it goes out to the media. If the club admitted that they had premeditated this strategy to unsettle Murphy throughout the game, because they believed it would be a key to them winning, it would be inexcusable once out in the public. Imagine the furore.

If the club admitted unreservedly, that they had crossed the line in defaming Jessie Murphy, it would be an admission of guilt and would open the door for litigation. The club, or even AFL, could be sued for defamation, depending on how they pursued the case.

By announcing an apology of sorts, with ambiguity, they give themselves a method of defending themselves should this scenario eventuate, while still getting the praise of acknowledging they may have made a mistake and would be sorry if they had....maybe.

Foolish player actions toward other players during the field of play seem to be covered by the stupidy stupid clause. Your playing a contact sport so if someone punches you in the neck, they'll get suspended and you have to pretend you didn't see who did it, and that it was low impact to your stomach probably from a hip and shoulder. Definitely not criminal assault.

Because Jessie is not a player, they can't hide behind the stupidy stupid clause......

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I will always love this club, no matter what. But I ride the roller coaster like I'm in the front seat and the losses really hurt.

Well said, Caro, and what a bunch of Carlisle-cousin flower offering their pathetic shitstain advice below the video, including the usual drugcheats-as-victims-who-diddent-do-nuffin morons.

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'People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.'
Soren Kierkegaard

And they have a captain with a hybrid name somewhere between Darren and Jarryd ....(apologies to the Darren's and Jarryd's reading this)

Raymond Reddington doesn't apologise for anything...

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“I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.” ― Richard Feynman

You give clubs too much credit Tal - they don't think beyond tying up their shoelaces.

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Donald Trump is a @#$%&! paedophile.

and then there was crackers keenan and glenn james - james paid a free kick against crackers and as he ran past crackers on the mark crackers commented what a shocker it was and said the he would be around his place that night to burn it down, to which glenn replied "don't be silly crackers you know you can't burn corrugated iron"...boom boom...................

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one you knock back is one you never have

I'd still like to know what Kevin Bartlett said to Glen James late in the last quarter of the 1982 Grand Final - whatever it was Glen James didn't like it and stopped mid bounce to admonish Bartlett who then put his hand up "in apology".

Glen James was a terrific bloke and a great umpire who usually gave as good as he got - so I'm betting what Bartlett said was pretty bad if he had to pull him up on it.

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"Hence you will not say that Greeks fight like heroes but that heroes fight like Greeks"?

Winston Churchill

Alan Richardson what a knob you are

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Letting Collingwood win a premiership

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http://www.afl.com.au/news/2017-05-25/f ... for-melees

Fine time as League whacks four clubs for melees

Nathan Schmook May 25, 2017 11:30 AM

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ST KILDA and Carlton have each been fined $10,000 by the AFL for the melee that resulted from the sledging of Marc Murphy in their ugly clash in round eight.

Under Match Review Panel guidelines introduced in 2017, the AFL can penalise clubs – rather than individual players – for large or repeated melees.

Football operations manager Simon Lethlean wrote to the Blues and Saints early last week and gave them seven days to respond in writing before a penalty was set.

The clubs could respond to the AFL recommending that they shoulder the fine themselves, or suggesting individual players who instigate or are involved in the melee be fined.

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"You are being watched. The government has a secret system. A machine that spies on you every hour of every day. I know because I built it." - Finch

I hope our response was "GAGF"

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Make St Kilda pay the whole lot. Arseholes.
They started it. What were the Carlton players supposed to do? Just stand by while Murphy was being set upon?