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Skids
Quitting drinking will be one of the best choices you make in your life.
Joined: 11 Sep 2007 Location: Joined 3/6/02 . Member #175
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Couldn't be suspended for that... surely?
Take his phone off him and make him write 'I won't use my phone whilst driving' 100 times on a white board... fmd, how does this shit make the news!? _________________ Don't count the days, make the days count. |
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Ads7
Joined: 24 May 2016
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Bucks5, that sounds like the appropriate punishment to me. Fingers crossed the Club doesn’t make an example of him.
Skids, my thoughts exactly. How does this info get to Damien Barrett/other journos, seriously?! |
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Hm
Joined: 20 May 2007
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4 demerit points and $484 fine, dangerous thing and too many are doing it. Pay the fine and everyone moves on. I don't understand why anyone thinks AFL players have to pay a double penalty? If we do the same thing do we then have to go to our boss and get fined and suspended by them as well? |
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Achilles
Joined: 25 May 2010
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Can’t penalise him for that! |
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Woods
Joined: 21 Aug 2013 Location: Melbourne
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A quick and dirty reminder of how the club reacted last time .
https://www.facebook.com/9NewsMelbourne/videos/collingwood-bad-boy-jordan-de-goey-has-been-banned-from-football-indefinitely-an/1973852492878402/
The road toll in Vic this year is this way higher than at same time last year and it's been attributed to more people texting etc while driving. I've also heard some road traffic safety spokespeople saying research is showing that use of phones while driving is more dangerous than driving pissed.
So don't expect the club, or the law, to go easy on him. Particularly after his DUI conviction, when he was put on notice to improve off-field behavior, and after the story Goldsack wrote for the Sunday Herald-Sun a few weeks ago about De Goey. It was headlined: "I've Learned From my Mistakes". Includes some gems of quotes from JD, such as: "It's not the end of the world when things go wrong in your life", and how he's only ever learned by stuffing up. Here's a link to it via Goldsack's Twitter page: https://twitter.com/TLGold6 (look now before Goldie takes it down in embarrassment). |
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WarrenerraW
Joined: 18 Apr 2008 Location: Melbourne
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can't wait for for caro and slobbo's response. they'll want him hung, drawn and quartered. |
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eddiesmith
Lets get ready to Rumble
Joined: 22 Nov 2004 Location: Lexus Centre
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In the past we’ve had to punish players for speeding because we were sponsored by the TAC, but as I do t think we are anymore then what’s the problem?
A mobile phone offence is a simple traffic offence, he’ll cop the points and fine and we should move on. If the club punishes him then they’ll just show why this club will never succeed. Did Buddy get punished when he crashed into a heap of parked cars? |
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stui magpie
Prepare for the worst, hope for the best.
Joined: 03 May 2005 Location: In flagrante delicto
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I see that ad on TV with the bearded ranga saying that a quick glance at your phone while driving is like driving for 5-6 seconds with hands over your eyes, and I want to throw something at the TV.
If that's true, young people these days must be incredibly stupid. Back in the day, to change the radio station in the car you had to look down at the radio and turn the dial till you got the right one, or put in/take out a cassette tape. You learned how to switch your eyes quickly between the road and other things.
Give him a slap over the wrist, release a statement saying sorry, it was dumb, it's dangerous and people shouldn't do it blah blah and move on. _________________ Every dead body on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated person, so maybe just calm the **** down. |
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think positive
Side By Side
Joined: 30 Jun 2005 Location: somewhere
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seriously, he gets paid a $£$%^%%$ fortune, he doesnt have bluetooth???
**** football players are dumb dumb dumb
and it is true Stui, google last text, many phones have been found with a text sent at the time of death, not to mention get in an argument with the better half and your distracted.
that said why do the afl have to announce this on instagram??? what are we covering up for them this week?? _________________ You cant fix stupid, turns out you cant quarantine it either! |
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Piesnchess
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Joined: 09 Jun 2008
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This is a matter for the LAW NOT THE BLOODY CLUB, let the law deal with him, fine him heavy, suspend licence, but that's it. Getting a bit over these witchhunts re our guys, give it a rest, hey. _________________ Poverty exists not because we cannot feed the poor, but because we cannot satisfy the rich.
Chess and Vodka are born brothers. - Russian proverb. |
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Raw Hammer
Joined: 11 Sep 2008 Location: The Gutter
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If the club even remotely addresses this in the media or ‘makes a statement’ I will write to them directly and cancel my membership effective immediately.
Boy oh boy... _________________ Est. 2002 |
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What'sinaname
Joined: 29 May 2010 Location: Living rent free
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I swear, if the club suspends JDG, then the whole footy department needs to be sacked. _________________ Fighting against the objectification of woman. |
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Dave The Man
Joined: 01 Apr 2005 Location: Someville, Victoria, Australia
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Must be a Really Slow News day this to be News
Everyone Does It _________________ I am Da Man |
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Dave The Man
Joined: 01 Apr 2005 Location: Someville, Victoria, Australia
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Must be a Really Slow News day this to be News
Everyone Does It _________________ I am Da Man |
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shawthing
Joined: 04 Jul 2019 Location: Victoria Park
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Dave The Man wrote: |
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No they don't Dave. I don't use my phone when I drive. It is dangerous. It is an offence. But as others have said, let the law handle it. The AFL should butt out. |
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