i blâme myself for thé Crippa incident, as i do with all wins and losses depending on my personal commitment to getting the win both during the week and during the game.
have a friend who supports the filth… not all of these supporters are bad, my partner and her daughters go for pies and one daughter plays the game and has very good knowledge of the game for a teen… and doesn’t get ahead of herself in her support, is still a glass half empty on pies and flag.
but this friend of mine sent me a tweet of the Maynard tackle on Neal-Bullen and said it was the perfect tackle and will be shown for years to come and that he couldn’t stop watching it.
https://twitter.com/PiesNation/status/1 ... 6fDCM7Irfw
i watched it a lot of times including scrubbing the slow motion video, frame by frame and to me it seemed lucky for maynard that NB got up straight away and wasn’t concussed and wasn’t taken off. also lining up a near stationary player who’s blindsided to you until microseconds before the hit doesn’t seem like the best kind of tackle. i’ve seen a bunch of these most weeks this season and past. yes Neal-Bullen was skittled, but so what, given how high the tackle was?
i said as much. the friend is one of those pies supporters who has totally taken the lid off it, and like so many Pies supporters, their personal value as a human seems to be immeasurably tied to the performance of their football team. so i coped lots of taunts and refutation that it was even a high tackle in hind sight with slow motion vision, in spite of the vision.
given the inability to recognise the ambiguity of it being a perfect tackle, and fact that these kinds of tackles happen all the time but with less dangerous contact, i ended up saying that i didn’t know if maybard intended to coat hanger NB or not but if Maynard jumps up and leaves the ground (which he did, though not as much as crippa did this week) and tackles the guy over the shoulder and across the neck and face, then if there is a bad outcome for the tacleked player that’s a dog act because Maynard lined him up from about 10 meters away had an unimpeded run at him and could have tackled the chest or waist. and because he caught NB unsighted until microseconds before the high hit so NB couldn’t avoid or protect from the charging momentum of maynard impacting his neck.
anyhow i got a second option from a friend who played seniors for uni blues for many years and he said Matnard had form, that game and earlier in the season when he was rubbed out.
so if my dog act comment (something i heard attributed to Crippa about a player who pushed him over when he was picking up the ball) somehow resulted in the bad karma for Crippa and the blues in general — who i bleed for during game time and avoid watching to not put the moz on them, then i’m very sorry to all
concerned.
here’s some pics of the Maynard tackle that wasn’t called out, by MRO but i expect it would have been if direct contact to the head in initial contact was made and/or a concussion or as the result. not also the late sling of NBs head to the turf as he held on during the fall. NB twisted to avoid Manard’s chest or hips landing on his head, but Maynard’s arms stayed locked around d his neck until his they hit the ground.
