You can do a lot of things in football to get a bad rap. Libba left the game a villain because he had too much fight, Jeff Farmer left the game as black as he came into it so was frog marched out the back gate, Barry Hall seems to be an angry look away from being booted out of the league, Akker talked too much.
Great players with minor flaws who brought thousands of supporters to the game but are now football lepers in many ways.
Meanwhile, one bloke was de-registered for bringing the game into disrepute has been nominated for a medal that goes to "the retiring player who has contributed the most to the game".
www.afl.com.au/news/newsarticle/tabid/20.../105133/default.aspx
Surely the first thing on the check list for nomination is
Did this person
A) Bring the game into disrepute.
B) Not Bring the game into disrepute.
I suppose it doesn't say that player who has made the most positive contribution to the game.
