Get him!

[daysofourlives]

I've never wanted to see any player in any side deliberately injured.
However, I recognised that malicious unsporting attitude was part of the football culture from watching SANFL in the Fos Williams and Neil Kerley era..

That's why I prefer the more well policed AFL game now, and why in my youth, while I enjoy watching football for the skills, I took up Hockey because i didnt have the balls for footy
I had life aims that didn't allow room for getting maimed playing a game.
(Just like Peter Oatey, Rick Abbott, and Andrew Aish did. I don't claim I had their talent.)

[Psyber]

because i didnt have the balls for footy

Poor silly child.
What person with a brain would write off a well paying lifetime career for a game that included deliberate snipers trying to maim you.
Peter Oatey (Neurosurgeon), Rick Abbott (Pathologist), and Andrew Aish (Physiotherapist) had to make the same choice.

[The Sleeping Giant]

Plenty of "professionals" have played the game and "survived".

[Psyber]

Plenty of "professionals" have played the game and "survived".

Yeah, I knew and worked with two personally, Keith Le Page and Tony Clarkson.
It is simply a matter of how much risk you are prepared to take, and at 13 I was already thinking of becoming a surgeon who would need working hands.

I had seen the genuine accidents in which Wally Miller got his sudden attack of "Polio" on the field under Don Lindner's flying knees and Jon Moody lost a kidney in his one game for Norwood.
But I had also watched , live, Neil Kerley (and Fos Williams mob) at work, and that probably influenced me when, at 13, I opted for Hockey.
You can get nasty injuries in that sport, too, but it is genuinely accidental as "taking out" players is not as much part of the culture.

I didn't mind the accident risk, but I wanted to be able to concentrate on the game I was playing not the snipers.
I was also happy to take the risks in Judo, Wrestling, and later horse riding.

[Squids]

Thought of someone else Taylor Walker

[leftlegger]

Phillips (only when he plays for Norwood though)

[whufc]

Phillips (only when he plays for Norwood though)

Your a fan of Ian Callinan then!

[JK]

Steven Morris .. Dunno what it is but there's something about him I can't stand, felt the same when he was at Westies too.

Definitely rate him as a player though, had him in my SC team all year and have no doubts he's a quality player.

[goraw]

Phillips (only when he plays for Norwood though)

Your a fan of Ian Callinan then!

i am

[mots02]

Dale Thomas

[Wedgie]

Milne

[scoob]

Michael Clarke...