I know this has been said before - but maybe in relation to other incidents - however, it is time for the club to take on Wet Toast full on over this.
By that I mean the club needs to keep reminding all and sundry what a despicable and dog act one of theirs perpetrated on one of our best and brightest young stars.
I would start by listing Brayshaw on the injury list as ‘king hit - season’.
I would then appeal each and every sanction, fine and/or suspension handed out to ANY of our players in the ensuing melees. Using the argument that Wet Toast contributed to the actions by not red-carding Faff themselves, we should drag up all the mud we can about past acts of their players (e.g. Masten biting Suban and then seeking to blame the victim), their fans (regularly booing injured players, booing Adam Goodes & Jetta (when he was a Swan)). I would go so far to say that Wet Toast actually WANTED Docker’s players to retaliate on Gaff to make Gaff seem more like the victim and deliberately sent him back on to get that result.
How can you expect our players to keep a check of their emotions when you have 50,000+ ‘fans’ (I use the word ‘fan’ here the same way some describe the fawning admiration some have for serial killers and other such violent trash) applauding, if not ecstatically cheering, for a gutless thug that just smashed one of their Docker teammates into next year - literally. Incitement to riot has been proven on far less.
I have tried to be all ‘Zen’ about footy for a while now - even tried extending it to the other fellow WA side - but this has torn it. The level of hatred and disgust I feel towards both WC players, coach and fans I doubt I’ll ever let go.
As it is I expect AAJohnno to get at least half as many weeks for his gentle bump in Gaff as Gaff gets for rearranging Brayshaw’s face. My only criticism of Johnno’s bump was that he didn’t deposit Gaff and several of his teeth across several rows of their ‘fans’.
This is no way for one of the greatest & fairest indigenous players to ever grace the game to go out.
C’mon Dockers - we have nothing to lose and everything to gain by taking this course of action.