so if cotch does get suspended due to the 3rd fine is the attitude going to sour towards him in here or the media or will people talk it up like a luke hodge/michael voss thing of putting his team on his back and showing them the way? me personally we were playing like shit and the skipper sparked us deserves as much praise as hodge/selwood ever get
He won't get suspended, Stevi, don't stress mate.
The league will be so busy falling all over themselves that 44 players from two massive football states who have NEVER played in a grand final before will line up head to head next week, they'll bury their self created tribunal issues early and swiftly.
I fully expect them to back down and compromise on the jumper while they're at it.
Just a smidgeon of wise and authoritative damage control is the only tiny tweak they need to complete gifting Australia with two consecutive seasons of football that the best scriptwriter in the world would struggle to match.
Spending the next couple of days choosing which foot they unload a shotgun into simply won't happen.
The governing body knows full well it has zero authority to **** with premiership ambitions chasing up players who play the ball over technicalities.
They're not going to turn a perfect season so far into a GF week riot when there's any amount of grey zone they can inhabit in preference.