I wasn't happy with the retribution being dished out in the media regarding Josh Carr's thuggery, so I thought I'd rehash an old article from The Worst last year and just change a few names around. Now thats the kind of indignation I was expecting. My apologies for the length:

Williams acts on Carr problem

STAR Port Adelaide recruit Josh Carr will undergo anger management training, on the advice of coach Mark Williams, while serving a two-week suspension for striking.
Yesterday, coach Williams did not hold back his feeling's about Carr's indiscretion involving Fremantle player Peter Bell.
He described it as an unacceptably careless act and said it would have a devastating impact in all areas of the club.
The most immediate consequence would come in the opening two games of the home-and-away series when Carr was sitting in the stands.
"We have 12 games here at home and two early against teams that were down in the bottom half of the ladder," Williams said. "You would think we would be more of a chance of beating them than teams in the other half.
"Losing Josh Carr just reduces our chances. Footy is a tough industry. It is tough when you get injuries to key players but when they are out of the game for careless acts it is super disappointing."
Williams believes the suspension could also prove costly in terms of membership, an area the club has been working hard to improve this season.
"I think a lot of members do hold off leading into the season," he said. "We want to encourage them to come down and watch us play some exciting football and our most exciting footballer is not playing."
Williams said he sat down with Carr yesterday to discuss the report and both agreed he needed to complete some type of anger management course.
He said although Carr's passion and his aggressive attitude were his greatest strengths, they needed to be controlled.
"We need to assist Josh to get it controlled," Williams said. "It is a fine line where we want the players to be very aggressive at the football and at the opposition player who is controlling the football but not step over the boundary of being careless enough to be reported.
"There is a line and sometimes that line does get crossed. But what happened with Josh was unacceptably careless. He is one of our most important players."
Though Port would not outline the specifics of Carr's anger management program, the player will be working with club psychologist.
Port football operations manager said the 24-year-old would address such issues as concentration and relaxation techniques.

Very Clever
looks like you went to alot of effort there.

But one thing is bugging me...
what is your point?

I'm at a loss.

Basil Zemplis

I guess the point is how differently Josh Carr's angry pill antics are treated from Jeff Farmer's. The original article is the reporting of Jeff's love tap on Primus at this time last year. When I read the articles on the Carr report it appeared it was all in a days work at the office; for Jeffy it was off to the psychologist you go because there's something deeply wrong with you. I know that Jeff has probably been before the tribunal umpteen more times, but I find it hard to believe that Josh is any less a sinner than Farmer.

Jeff Farmer

I normally steer a little clear from issues like this because sooner or later the racism issue comes up and feelings get a little hurt and folks get a little huffy. Well, bugger that, lets get the Magi-can out and get to work on this one.

Lets have a look at Josh Carr - carpark brawler, mouthy short man - and have a look at how he manages to escape the blowtorch of scrutiny Farmer got for an incident of a similiarly infamous nature. Carr's a tagger, right, and is valued for his tenacity, hard-at-it-ness and expertise in the niggle. Well, these are all euphemisms for "annoying little corkhead." There is no way in the world punching someone in the back of the head - obviously while they are looking away - adds to your reputation as a hard but fair physical player of the game. There's niggles and there's plain bloody dirty but somehow or other he's avoiding the reputation he should rightly have.

In a similar preseason match last year, the coathanger Farmer put on Mattress Primus was so soft it wouldn't have stood up if you'd tried to use it as an aerial on your car. You would have been hard-pressed making a shape of Australia with it and all your clothes would be in a heap on the floor. It was so soft I am amazed the "Jakovich defence" wasn't used; ie, not enough force to be considered a strike.

Yet because he is a small forward - job description: antsy showpony with a short fuse and even shorter attention span - he is painted into a corner where his "reputation" reinforces itself, becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. Kapok-crunching apemen like Primus will target a bloke like Farmer because he's not supposed to be able to control his temper. They go at him hard enough and long enough until he does lose his temper. This is "what they are supposed to do" and losing his rag is what Farmer is "supposed" to do and so it goes on.

Carr is supposed to be a little bit dirty - everyone applauds a tagger who pushes the boundaries because that's their job description, that's the expectation we have of them.

The real difference of course is that Carr is white. It's all fun and games when he's fighting in carparks and king-hitting blokes in packs. Jeff Farmer has a go and he gets treatment dished out to criminals, wifebeaters, scum and seriously damaged folk. He is all sorts of things but he is none of these. He's a confidence player. A magician (not a Magi-can). He needs to be unleashed. Let Jeffy go. Release him and watch the feathers fly. Vengeance will be ours.

Accurate, and beautifully put.