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Geelong grand final hero Paul Chapman was forced to defend himself after being assaulted at a local hotel on Saturday night.

According to a club statement, the incident occurred at around 8pm and the club was aware of the details by 9pm.

“We have spoken to Paul, the owner of the hotel and other patrons that were present and they have been consistent in terms of what happened,” Geelong’s general manager of football operations Neil Balme said.

“In the circumstances we feel Paul was within his rights to defend himself.

“It is always difficult when footballers are targeted, but given what happened most reasonable people would have acted in the same manner that Paul did.”

sports tonight here in canberra states that a patron continually kept throwing coins at him and harassed him throughout the night

'Local hotel' meaning?
A/ Geelong
B/ Melbourne
C/ Adelaide

The answer is A/ Geelong.

magpie in the 80's wrote:sports tonight here in canberra states that a patron continually kept throwing coins at him and harassed him throughout the night

Hope Chappy smacked him one then walked out with a pocket full of money...

magpie in the 80's wrote:sports tonight here in canberra states that a patron continually kept throwing coins at him and harassed him throughout the night

if someone did that to me i'd just keep putting the coins in my pocket until the 'thrower' ran out of money & then defended myself

why didn't the bar manager or staff of the pub, intervene earlier by talking to the thrower & if that didn't work throw him/her out ?

Thug.. probably attacked Chapman unprovoked..

magpie in the 80's wrote:sports tonight here in canberra states that a patron continually kept throwing coins at him and harassed him throughout the night

As far as news stories go,seems like small change to me....


To qoine a phrase......


My money was on Chapman from the start....


He won alot last year,why change things now...


Do you think the bloke had a pocket full of advice for Chappy....?

(I'm sure I've got more )

Most of the AFL sides now have a boxing program included into the training schedules these days, some of these guys can get to the stage of competing at an amature/professional level in the boxing circuit ie. Barry Hall, Wayne Carey. Anyone who provokes these guys deserve what they get......

Booney wrote:(I'm sure I've got more )

Make sure the next lot are funny!

Mr66 wrote:

Booney wrote:(I'm sure I've got more )

Make sure the next lot are funny!

I was on the end of a day long bender....

who were the peanuts that did this

I have met Chappy a couple of times now and he must have been provoked, as he is one of the most gentle, down to earth blokes you could ever meet.

Players are always a target, but even more so in Geelong where it's like a big country town, everyone knows everyone.

he should have got some of the coinage and put it in his hand and hit him with a fuc**n roll of ten cent pieces.