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Dear Mal,

I agree with you in regards your comment regarding the opening of a pandora's box if you start suspending people for applying headlocks, you would have people up every week and it would be a mess. However, your teammate, Jonathon Brown, was not apllying a haedlock, it was more like a choke and therefore he should be facing the tribunal this week. Jonathon Brown is a great player but I don't think he has much going for him in the space between his ears. He should get a couple and he can't really complain given his poor record. When will the guy wake up?

― chrisso (chrisso), Sunday, 5 September 2004 00:35 (twenty years ago)

I think he'll just get a fine (the way I've tipped this season means he probably be rubbed out for two!).
Apparently numerous people have spoken to him through the year yet he continues to ignore them. He'll wake up pretty quick if they do they suspend him and he misses the GF (if they get there ;) ).

― Hawka (hawka), Sunday, 5 September 2004 00:47 (twenty years ago)

There are plenty of players with bad records, but Jono Brown's is worse than Celine Dion's Greatest Hits. If he's found guilty he's cactus for 2004.

― Fred Nerk (Fred Nerk), Sunday, 5 September 2004 04:10 (twenty years ago)

Just a point of law for Brown.

Can you get done for 'engaging in rough play' if the play has finished?

Brown had Blake in a headlock after the siren at Quarter Time so the play wa finished for the time in question.

Possibly should just be a wrestling charge.

― Westener (Westener), Sunday, 5 September 2004 11:05 (twenty years ago)

Considering Guerra and Murray didnt even get a charge for elbowing Luke Power and RIchard Hadley. I'd be very very pi55ed off if Brown get rubbed out. Apart from it being a melee I agree he has a bad record but the bloke who got a lock around Tim Notting's neck didn't get reported. McLaren and McBurney are duds!

― Lucy Lion (Lucy Lion), Sunday, 5 September 2004 21:37 (twenty years ago)

BROWN IS INNOCENT! ;)

http://realfooty.theage.com.au/articles/2004/09/05/1094322643144.html

― Lucy Lion (Lucy Lion), Sunday, 5 September 2004 21:57 (twenty years ago)

The three wise monkeys and there supporters are quick to point out that the tribunal is not a court of law and there is no use of precident. OK. Fine. Then don't invoke a legal practice in saying that a players past record is taken into account when a sentence is handed down. Its either all or nothing, not picking up items that suit you.

It becomes a pointless arguement really, I have no problem with Murray getting off but Guerra's was a deliberate act, clear line of site and no effort to do anything other than raise the elbow during contact.

If Brown is to be rubbed out the club should show the way and just get on with it, DONT turn this into a Cloke/Rocca fiasco. I'd be tempted to not even appeal if the worse should happen, just focus on what is at hand and what you can do about the players who will play, not those who won't be playing.

― Big Bird (Big Bird), Sunday, 5 September 2004 22:43 (twenty years ago)

"If Brown is to be rubbed out the club should show the way and just get on with it, DONT turn this into a Cloke/Rocca fiasco. I'd be tempted to not even appeal if the worse should happen..."

Unless Brisbane sometime in the next week instal their head honcho as T@# F@@#$ S@#$ host, any equivalent of the Rocca circus won't get off the ground.

And yes, if Brown goes a row for the season Brisbane should just file him as 'unavailable' next to Jamie Sharman and co, shrug their shoulders and concentrate on the blokes that can play. That would ram home the message that blokes who get suspended for big games for doing something stupid don't deserve sympathy but a good kick up the backside for letting their team down. But that's if he goes, which is no certainty.

― Fred Nerk (Fred Nerk), Sunday, 5 September 2004 23:21 (twenty years ago)

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