Kingy Out 1 week WTF [update: tribunal appeal fails]

[WilliamPowell]

I reckon we need a new legal team

We not very good at appealing these things

[mightytiges]

I reckon we need a new legal team

We not very good at appealing these things

We need OER to do the appeals 

[WilliamPowell]

I reckon we need a new legal team

We not very good at appealing these things

We need OER to do the appeals 

Yep, for starters

Flagman & Tucker to do the opening & closing arguments

MT on stats & media watch

Jack, Mr Tigra on repeating the same things eg Rance wont make it, Hislop is a dud etc

and Me doing nothing but taking the glory when it works and dis-owning any knowledge of it when it fails

 

[Hellenic Tiger]

That's right WP. We succeed together but fail alone.
Always the team player.

[mightytiges]

I reckon we need a new legal team

We not very good at appealing these things

We need OER to do the appeals 

Yep, for starters

Flagman & Tucker to do the opening & closing arguments

MT on stats & media watch

Jack, Mr Tigra on repeating the same things eg Rance wont make it, Hislop is a dud etc

and Me doing nothing but taking the glory when it works and dis-owning any knowledge of it when it fails

That sounds about right

And FNM telling David Jones she'll never shop at his stores ever again if a Tiger player is suspended  .

[one-eyed]

Banned King says he's not a thug

    Bruce Matthews
    From: Herald Sun
    June 23, 2011

RICHMOND'S reinvented forward Jake King told an AFL investigator this week how he was trying to repair his image.

King said in an interview he did not want to be regarded in football circles as a "thug".

A transcript of King's answers to questions from AFL investigations officer Graeme McDonald was tabled at the AFL Tribunal when the Tiger failed with a challenge to a one-match suspension.

The jury rejected King's assertion that his strike to Brisbane Lions defender Ash McGrath was negligent rather than reckless conduct.

Had the downgrade been successful, the lesser demerit points tally would have let him escape with a reprimand.

King, the Tigers' fourth leading goalkicker this season behind Jack Riewoldt, Tyrone Vickery and Dustin Martin, will miss Saturday's game against Melbourne at the MCG.

The 27-year-old, who moved from defence this season, told McDonald on Monday he had not struck McGrath when the pair grappled before the opening bounce at the Gabba on Saturday night.

"It was more a power standover thing because they (Lions defenders) were being aggressive," King said.

Denying he threw a punch, King said: "I've moved away from that. I'm trying to play good football. I've stuffed up in the past. I don't want to be known as a thug."

McGrath told McDonald he suffered a cut lip from the pair grabbing each other's jumpers.

"He's just one of those players who gets under your skin," McGrath said.

 "I just wanted to show him who was boss."

King's defence advocate, Michael Toovey, QC, was allowed to call McGrath to give evidence at the hearing.

McGrath said by phone from Brisbane he assumed from the video that a punch had caused his cut lip.

Asked by AFL counsel Andrew Tinney, SC, to identify the point of contact, McGrath said: "When you see me react, try to sling him to the ground."

A Lions medical report, requested by the AFL match review panel, said McGrath had a laceration, requiring two stitches, below the lower lip after a tooth pierced the skin.

McGrath told the hearing he had not been wearing a mouthguard.

King missed the opening game of the season while serving a one-game suspension for striking in Round 22 last year.

He must carry 84.35 demerit points for the next year and will have a 50 per cent points loading for any future offence.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/richmonds-jake-king-to-contest-striking-ban/story-e6frf9jf-1226079780416

[WilliamPowell]

That's right WP. We succeed together but fail alone.
Always the team player.

Yep just think how many games I could have played for some AFL teams over the last 10-15 odd years with that approach