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Power ranger wrote:Again wrong information. No action has been taken by the club towards the player. Why would the club take action for an accident.? Don’t know where you got that info from.

Footy Chick wrote:Dealt with in house

The Bedge wrote:Is this the same incident FC was referring to? If so, what I don’t understand is if it’s as you’ve said why would the club need to take action internally?

Power ranger wrote:The West Croydon player is a 270+ senior player with the club who has an untarnished playing record. He was rucking a boundary throw in where he was attempting to hit the ball to his teams attacking end. I’ve seen the footage repeatedly . Footage that clearly shows there were only eyes on the football not the opposition ruckman. In the ruck attempt the PH ruckman was struck by the WC ruckman forearm. Totally accidental. No one likes seeing a player sustaining an injury playing sport but it unfortunately does occur especially in a contact sport. The WC ruckman was clearly attempting to gain some metreage with this attempt. The WC ruckman hasn’t a nasty bone in his body. Never has he purposely hurt an opposing player nor did he on this occasion. To see him called a thug for an in game collision is nothing short of uneducated slander. This is one of the things I really don’t like about this forum. People commenting on incidents they have little to no facts on. No regard given to the people being tarnished. Or the club.
WC have employed a videographer on the advice of a league official. Boy am I glad we took that advice. The footage is clear this was an incident with no intent or malice.
I do and so does everyone at WCFC wish the PHFC player a total and full recovery.
If we cause an incident outside the spirit of the game and it’s rules and integrity we deserve to pay for that as do all member clubs and players. This isn’t the case with this incident.

Power ranger wrote:The league will have its processes if PH ask the league to investigate. I’m pretty sure their first port of call would be to talk to the umpires to see what they saw. They would ask WC to respond if they required more information than the umpires could give. The incident was filmed and if we are asked to show the footage we would use it as our defence of this being an accident. That’s why we are having both A and B grade games filmed. There’s nothing to hide, it was not intentional it wasn’t a fist to the head it was in play in front of the umpires. It unfortunately doesn’t help the PH ruckman , I feel his pain as my final game was brought about unexpectedly by an unintentional incident with a knee to the head. We all know when we put on boots we could be hurt. I don’t know statistics of the the number of footballers who end up in hospital on a Saturday but I’m betting a bigh percentage are unintentional compared to intentional. There was no incident preceding the clash between the two players.

Power ranger wrote:The West Croydon player is a 270+ senior player with the club who has an untarnished playing record. He was rucking a boundary throw in where he was attempting to hit the ball to his teams attacking end. I’ve seen the footage repeatedly . Footage that clearly shows there were only eyes on the football not the opposition ruckman. In the ruck attempt the PH ruckman was struck by the WC ruckman forearm. Totally accidental. No one likes seeing a player sustaining an injury playing sport but it unfortunately does occur especially in a contact sport. The WC ruckman was clearly attempting to gain some metreage with this attempt. The WC ruckman hasn’t a nasty bone in his body. Never has he purposely hurt an opposing player nor did he on this occasion. To see him called a thug for an in game collision is nothing short of uneducated slander. This is one of the things I really don’t like about this forum. People commenting on incidents they have little to no facts on. No regard given to the people being tarnished. Or the club.
WC have employed a videographer on the advice of a league official. Boy am I glad we took that advice. The footage is clear this was an incident with no intent or malice.
I do and so does everyone at WCFC wish the PHFC player a total and full recovery.
If we cause an incident outside the spirit of the game and it’s rules and integrity we deserve to pay for that as do all member clubs and players. This isn’t the case with this incident.

Power ranger wrote:In 2016 B grade grand final at Edwardstown Hawks v WS Cats. One of our players Leigh Bottrel slid in over the football, was first to the footy. A Woodville south player unintentionally fell knees first i to him. 2 1/2hours later braced with suspected spinal injuries he was taken by ambulance. Broken collar bone, sternum and severe bruising. Hospitalised for some period of time, tried to comeback but has now as a result prematurely retired. As i said my own football playing days ended by an accident. If result is the factor most prevalent not intent then under that banner these two players should have had lengthy bans. For accidental contact in a contact sport. We had a current A grade player hit in a contest 2 years back by a team mate, punctured his lung. So what there??? Absolutely no intent yet serious injuries. If intent becomes void in decisions on players and in this case a clubs future then our game is DONE. For the record every single player involved in incidents compounding to see us on a AAA is no longer at West Croydon. All but one is playing scott free at other clubs, none of which are on a AAA . Theyve caused the club grief, none of which they have to pay for past their own few week suspensions. All but one of those players were also new to the club in 2016. Yet here we are as a club tarnished left on egg shells. A , AAA
Gives opposition clubs two ways to beat a club on a AAA.

Footy Chick wrote:

Power ranger wrote:In 2016 B grade grand final at Edwardstown Hawks v WS Cats. One of our players Leigh Bottrel slid in over the football, was first to the footy. A Woodville south player unintentionally fell knees first i to him. 2 1/2hours later braced with suspected spinal injuries he was taken by ambulance. Broken collar bone, sternum and severe bruising. Hospitalised for some period of time, tried to comeback but has now as a result prematurely retired. As i said my own football playing days ended by an accident. If result is the factor most prevalent not intent then under that banner these two players should have had lengthy bans. For accidental contact in a contact sport. We had a current A grade player hit in a contest 2 years back by a team mate, punctured his lung. So what there??? Absolutely no intent yet serious injuries. If intent becomes void in decisions on players and in this case a clubs future then our game is DONE. For the record every single player involved in incidents compounding to see us on a AAA is no longer at West Croydon. All but one is playing scott free at other clubs, none of which are on a AAA . Theyve caused the club grief, none of which they have to pay for past their own few week suspensions. All but one of those players were also new to the club in 2016. Yet here we are as a club tarnished left on egg shells. A , AAA
Gives opposition clubs two ways to beat a club on a AAA.

I always did wonder whether he played footy again. That's a shame to have a career ended like that.

That was a terrible accident and even worse seeing the pain he was in whilst waiting for the ambo.

I hope he's not turned his back on footy completely and is still involved around the club in some capacity.

Rabbdawg88 wrote:Terrible from some on here to assume and that’s the problem, assumptions with out full knowledge.
A THUG is the opposite of what the man is.

Rabbdawg88 wrote:

Footy Chick wrote:

Power ranger wrote:In 2016 B grade grand final at Edwardstown Hawks v WS Cats. One of our players Leigh Bottrel slid in over the football, was first to the footy. A Woodville south player unintentionally fell knees first i to him. 2 1/2hours later braced with suspected spinal injuries he was taken by ambulance. Broken collar bone, sternum and severe bruising. Hospitalised for some period of time, tried to comeback but has now as a result prematurely retired. As i said my own football playing days ended by an accident. If result is the factor most prevalent not intent then under that banner these two players should have had lengthy bans. For accidental contact in a contact sport. We had a current A grade player hit in a contest 2 years back by a team mate, punctured his lung. So what there??? Absolutely no intent yet serious injuries. If intent becomes void in decisions on players and in this case a clubs future then our game is DONE. For the record every single player involved in incidents compounding to see us on a AAA is no longer at West Croydon. All but one is playing scott free at other clubs, none of which are on a AAA . Theyve caused the club grief, none of which they have to pay for past their own few week suspensions. All but one of those players were also new to the club in 2016. Yet here we are as a club tarnished left on egg shells. A , AAA
Gives opposition clubs two ways to beat a club on a AAA.

I always did wonder whether he played footy again. That's a shame to have a career ended like that.

That was a terrible accident and even worse seeing the pain he was in whilst waiting for the ambo.

I hope he's not turned his back on footy completely and is still involved around the club in some capacity.

One of my best mates and my bgrade team manager!!

The player in question is a club man through and through and I have played footy with him and is a proud wc man.
Not a single angry bone in him to hurt someone intentionally!

Terrible from some on here to assume and that’s the problem, assumptions with out full knowledge.
A THUG is the opposite of what the man is.

Lightning McQueen wrote:

Rabbdawg88 wrote:

Footy Chick wrote:

Power ranger wrote:In 2016 B grade grand final at Edwardstown Hawks v WS Cats. One of our players Leigh Bottrel slid in over the football, was first to the footy. A Woodville south player unintentionally fell knees first i to him. 2 1/2hours later braced with suspected spinal injuries he was taken by ambulance. Broken collar bone, sternum and severe bruising. Hospitalised for some period of time, tried to comeback but has now as a result prematurely retired. As i said my own football playing days ended by an accident. If result is the factor most prevalent not intent then under that banner these two players should have had lengthy bans. For accidental contact in a contact sport. We had a current A grade player hit in a contest 2 years back by a team mate, punctured his lung. So what there??? Absolutely no intent yet serious injuries. If intent becomes void in decisions on players and in this case a clubs future then our game is DONE. For the record every single player involved in incidents compounding to see us on a AAA is no longer at West Croydon. All but one is playing scott free at other clubs, none of which are on a AAA . Theyve caused the club grief, none of which they have to pay for past their own few week suspensions. All but one of those players were also new to the club in 2016. Yet here we are as a club tarnished left on egg shells. A , AAA
Gives opposition clubs two ways to beat a club on a AAA.

I always did wonder whether he played footy again. That's a shame to have a career ended like that.

That was a terrible accident and even worse seeing the pain he was in whilst waiting for the ambo.

I hope he's not turned his back on footy completely and is still involved around the club in some capacity.

One of my best mates and my bgrade team manager!!

The player in question is a club man through and through and I have played footy with him and is a proud wc man.
Not a single angry bone in him to hurt someone intentionally!

Terrible from some on here to assume and that’s the problem, assumptions with out full knowledge.
A THUG is the opposite of what the man is.

What did FC say that I'm not seeing?

Rabbdawg88 wrote:
No not FC if you look back you will see what I’m referring to

Lightning McQueen wrote:

Rabbdawg88 wrote:
No not FC if you look back you will see what I’m referring to

Probably best quoting on the offending post there mate.

I think the general consensus has been nothing short of favourable to the player in question and by the sounds of the video evidence he'll have nothing to worry about, I've been snotted by my own team mate at a boundary throw in, I'm not sure to this day if it was intentional or not.

Rabbdawg88 wrote:
Apologies, still learning my way through the forum operation