Down the Hill wrote:Dion, who played twice the games for Brighton of Dunc and Clint combined, has got you guys as bluffed as the opponents he played against. Dion used to use plenty of mouth and tell people he'd belt them like the last bloke, but most of it was the biggest con job ever. People thought he was a thug because he'd tell them he was. The only time he may have hit someone was if that someone had belted a Jolly or a Tucker first. Fairs fair. He didn't go around and snipe for the hell of it. The Bombers were branded soft pretty boys for our first few years in the SFL and copped heaps without having the cattle to dish it back. Guys like the Drapers and the Betterman twins helped us earn a bit of respect and we've never been labelled soft since.
To quote your words
Good to see people are starting wake up to some of the thugs in this comp who get put on a pedestal by their club as being a stalwart and a good hard "fair" player, when really they are just snipers, who get a blind eye from the umpires or if reported their club sends the infantry down to the tribunal and paint the bloke as an angel.
I remember a report in the messanger about a 16 year kids father getting "quite upset" after his son was king hit at the bottom of a pack. Which club stalwart and good hard "fair" player was that?



