Suspend the playing group????

[MTK]

Heath Shaw (quite rightly) copped a decent whack for betting on footy....it's now come to light that last weekend that the Melbourne players 'protested' against how their club was being run by essentially not trying down at Geelong. In my mind this is a FAR more serious charge than Shaw's....each player involved in that shameful display down at Geelong should be suspended by the AFL for the rest of the year for bringing the game into disrepute.........Discuss......

[hawk_88]

Is probably a mute point as proving it would be almost impossible.

[LaHug]

Not only impossible to punish them like that, impossible to prove it. Too risky for the AFL to suggest it because then they're insulting the football club. Would never happen.

[hawk_88]

Also as issue of practicality. 22 players suspended wouldn't leave 22 players to take the field.

[LaHug]

That's what I was assuming was meant by impossible to punish them like that... But yeah, they'll just have to try their best on the weekend.

[PowerBug]

Sounds fair. Maybe just the leadership group.

Hey that was my 1000th post. Coach now.

[PowerBug]

But then you could argue that they need the LG to get better.