The "Lake Fake"

[tiga]

Not sure if anyone else has an opinion on this but I thought on first impressions that Brian Lake faked an Injury so a player with better accuracy could take the crucial shot at goal.
I saw him being taken off the ground and he seemed to be trotting freely to the boundary with just token support from the trainers. I wasn't at the game so I don't know the aftermath
but it sure looked fishy to me especially when he stood up and took a step or two when he claimed the mark and then he hit the ground quicker than a 2 dollar hooker!

[Francois Jackson]

yes fake 100%.
as soon as i saw it, i thought crap, which is why gilbee tried to have the kick. some sort of set play perhaps??

also when i got home from the game, i viewed the replay as he is seen chatting away to the trainers, shopwing no signs of discomfort.
must be looked at.........im sure caro tomorrow night on classified will bring it up.

[WilliamPowell]

must be looked at.........im sure caro tomorrow night on classified will bring it up.

Caro  ??? Doubt it she will too busy having a whack at how we managed to lose the game especially after King (yesterday) and March (today) took her to task over her shoddy article last week

[one-eyed]

Plough thought it was fake...

"Was he injured, was he? I bet you he plays next week," Wallace said with a wry grin post-match.

But Bulldogs coach Rodney Eade insisted Lake's injury was genuine.

"He felt his hamstring but hopefully it looks like it might be back related, a spasm - he is having an ultrasound tomorrow, we will see how it is," Eade said.

http://news.smh.com.au/wallace-queries-lakes-injury/20080420-27dz.html

[WilliamPowell]

They way he walked off it certainly didn't look like he'd been shot as most hammies do. As for back related ... Rocket ...please -if he had a bad spasm he would not have been able to walk off by himself

[julzqld]

Yeah, having had back spasms before, he would have hardly been able to get up off the ground.

[Francois Jackson]

fcukin cheats they are.

end of story

[Little Jackie]

effin cheats they are.

end of story

Mate, not about cheating, it was a great pack mark, might also add if WE had the right players in the centre bounce with 2 mins to play, might  of been  different, why was Foley and Johnson on the bench was 2 minutes to go

[tiga]

effin cheats they are.

end of story

Mate, not about cheating, it was a great pack mark, might also add if WE had the right players in the centre bounce with 2 mins to play, might  of been  different, why was Foley and Johnson on the bench was 2 minutes to go

Jack, why do you take a thread and try to turn it into your own anti Wallace campaign all the time! If I wanted to start a discussion about why we didn't win I would have stated so in the subject line. Everything after your second comma is totally unrelated Can you at least once try and stick to the topic rather than drifting off into another of your Wallace diatribes! 

[Ramps]

If we had a player shooting at goal to win the game and he couldnt kick over a jam tin, I would expect we would do exactly as the dogs did yesterday. They didnt cheat. We blew our chance. Thats it in a nutshell.

[cub]

Part of the game, over it 

[Little Jackie]

Part of the game, over it 

We agree

[Smokey]

If we had a player shooting at goal to win the game and he couldnt kick over a jam tin, I would expect we would do exactly as the dogs did yesterday. They didnt cheat. We blew our chance. Thats it in a nutshell.

Exactly.  The real problem was letting the game get to that stage in the first place.

[Tigermonk]

Part of the game, over it 

 

[mightytiges]

Time for the club to just forget about it and move on.