Are we all becoming a little feminine in our attitude to the biff?

Question

OMG Barry hall Hit Staker

Staker was not knocked out

He didnt break any thing

and lost no teeth

Footy is a contact sport not a sissy game played by other codes

Ive been around a long time and seen alot worse

so if you dont like a love tap

find another game

yeh it was a cheep shot but thats footy

Answer 1

I'm a girl, and I say "Bring back the biff!"

Answer 2

No we are not becoming feminine.

But some people are becoming, or already were, immature.

Does anyone remember North Melbourne's Sam McFarlane? OK it was in 1997 but it involved another off the ball king hit by Hall - when he was playing for St Kilda.

McFarlane spent more than two months in hospital after the lower & upper right halves of his jaw snapped.. He still has three plates in his face.

He only played another two reserve gaves with North. Hall got a whole five weeks!!!

My point is; Hall has not learnt a thing in all tghis time. He was a junior boxer & still trains as such. He is always much bigger & stronger than those he hits. Every week one reads of "one punch" deaths or serious injuries in civvy street.

You say it was a cheap shot - I think this question is what I would consider a "cheap shot" question.

Answer 3

I am all for a bit of biff in footy but if you get caught be a man and take the punishment and be prepared to take what you give out next time you play.

Barry hall is the first to whinge to the umpires when it suits him.

Answer 4

I agree, this is a man's game played by grown men so things like this are bound to happen from time to time. Hall will do his time and Staker will probably play either next week or the week after, Get over it. Hall made a mistake and he'll take the punishment. Football is a game of human emotion not something made by a video game company or a box office movie.

Answer 5

After viewing the Barry Hall incident I would like to see a provision in the game that would allow an umpire to send a player off the field. For the simple reason that Baz had lost the plot. This was evident when he went on to biff another opponent who could have suffered the same fate as Staker.

Sure it's a tough game, but it ain't football when a player fronts up to work, and  then leaves the field after being bashed by a thug.Especially when the perpetrator has been a boxer prior to football.

A boxers' hands are regarded as a lethal weapon, and this was evident when all viewed the replay, and the execution of the landed punch.

And no, that ain't football.....

Answer 6

agreed yea there should be more biff, but not like what Barry Hall did and flat out punching Brent Staker!

Anyone who 'has been around a long time' will have seen alot worse - that's pretty much what the 70's and 80's were about in footy.

That was not a love tap... I think what Jordan Lewis did to the Kangaroos bloke (brady rawlings?) was closer to a love tap.

Bring back the full on melee's and when that clears up - intense games with lots of fierce tackles and hip and shoulders and that kind of biff... footy doesn't need what Hall did to Staker.

Answer 7

That is not footy, What Hall did is called boxing.

Answer 8

I think you need to review that adjective.

Feminine means "like a female" not "female" which is why so many women hate the word feminine, because they are women not LIKE women.

In either case, women tend not to use blows because we are smaller and have less upper body strength. I leave out the argument that we have more sense.

Barry Hall has a long record for being SIMIAN.

That means he behaves like an ape leader, not an AFL leader, which is what one would expect a player of his years to have reached.

A hip and shoulder or a shirt front is an accepted part of footy, belting your opponent is not, despite the famous picture of Jack Dyer that gets quoted every time some APE does what Barry did.

I don't agree with umpires too often, but I commend them for keeping the bumps fair and penalising anyone who belts an opponent's head or any other soft tissue.

Answer 9

No.

But the whole Barry Hall saga is becoming a bit tiresome. And it is getting just as tiresome trying to explain such to those who display such a limited grasp of the game.