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• Support Beyond Blue on Footy Jumper Friday.
• Results from Round 4
• Umpire Bump
• Umpire Bashing
• Jeff Kennett’s umpire comments
• My run in with Austereo (See my Disclaimer)

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The game will be interesting for the return of Heath Shaw, Alan Didak and Daniel Kerr and the debut of Steele Sidebottom, the rookie that kicked a bag in the TAC Cup final last year along with other rookies, Tom Swift and Dayne Beam. Of course there is the Dream Team/Supercoach implications of the match as well!

Teams below (or by clicking Read more link if there is one)

Collingwood

Heath Shaw

1    Leon Davis
4    Alan Didak
5    Nick Maxwell
8    Heritier O’Brien
9    John Anthony
10    Scott Pendlebury
11    Shane O’Bree
12    Shannon Cox
13    Dale Thomas
14    Anthony Corrie
16    Leigh Brown
16    Nathan Brown
17    Dayne Beams
18    Martin Clarke
19    Cameron Wood
20    Ben Reid
21    Sharrod Wellingham
22    Steele Sidebottom
24    Tarkyn Lockyer
25    Josh Fraser
26    Ben Johnson
28    Daniel Stanley
29    Ryan Cook
30    Brent Macaffer
31    Chris Dawes
32    Travis Cloke
35    Simon Prestigiacomo
36    Dane Swan
39    Heath Shaw

West Coast Eagles

Daniel Kerr

4    Daniel Kerr
6    Mark Nicoski
7    Chad Fletcher
11    Matthew Priddis
13    Chris Masten
14    Mark Seaby
15    Thomas Swift
16    Eric Mackenzie
17    Josh Kennedy
19    Tim Houlihan
20    Dean Cox
21    Quinten Lynch
23    Darren Glass
25    Shannon Hurn
27    Ben McKinley
30    Matthew Spangher
31    Will Schofield
32    Andrew Embley
34    Tony Notte
38    Brett Jones
40    William Sullivan
41    Brent Staker
42    Beau Wilkes
42    Liam Bedford
43    Ashley Arrowsmith
45    Ryan Davis
47    Lewis Stevenson
48    Patrick McGinnity
48    Adam Cockie

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On this weeks Show I look at:

• Heath Shaw’s drink driving incident
• Didak was the passenger
• Collingwood’s Handling of the issue
• Eddie not wrong on this

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I reported yesterday about the reports of Heath Shaw being caught drink driving and having an accident. Collingwood did an investigation and by about 1pm Eddie McGuire and Mick Malthouse were on the front foot, explaining how Heath’s actions were good enough and pointing out that the passenger wasn’t Didak (even after some some reports of him being in the Ute when it crashed), that both players had assured the club that the “Slimmey Friend” (as Eddie but it) wasn’t Didak. In fact all the questioning by the media drew Eddie to this fantastic quote:

Didak will be accused of the Kennedy shooting next.

After that, Shaw and the leadership group faced the music in a press conference. Heater (Heath Shaw) talked about how sorry he was and how empty he felt. When asked again about the passenger, he said it was a friend that he didn’t wan’t to get in trouble. Scott Burns, Collingwood captain, stepped in and said that if he said it wasn’t Didak, it wasn’t Didak.

Unfortunately the people saying it was Didak grew and in fact, the lady who’s car was run into called Melbourne radio 3AW and in her interview mentioned that Didak was on the scene when they came out. Shaw’s claim that he rang Didak, but this didn’t seem to hold true. In fact it was reported about 8:30  in the evening that Shaw had either came to the Club or contacted the club in tears with the truth that Didak was in the car.

Collingwood straight away put out a press release saying that further information would be released.

Today, at 3pm, Collingwood came out and reported that they had Suspended both Heath Shaw and Didak for the rest of the season including Finals (should the Pies make it) and at the end of the season their future at the club would be reassed. Shaw was fined $10,000 and Didak $5000. Heath’s broher, Rhyce, was out drinking while injured which seems a no-no at Collingwood (well most clubs for that matter) and so was fined $5,00 and a two match suspension.

Thats about the story in two seconds. I will be trying to put my thoughts down in a podcast, so checkout for that tomorrow luch time.

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,24132212-661,00.html

Heath Shaw

Reports are coming in that a Collingwood player (who has been named as Heath Shaw by some media outlets) has been invovled in a drink driving incident, possibly had an accident and was possibly talking on his phone at the time.

TWO senior Collingwood players are believed to have been involved in a drink-driving incident on the weekend.

The players – who are yet to be identified – are believed to have been pulled over by police last night.

Pies in drink drive probe | Herald Sun.

This is disappointing if it turns out to be true especially after Collingwood have taken extrudenery lengths to try to avoid this sort of issue by offering their players taxi vouchers. The player will be in trouble for this and there will most likely be pressure on Collingwood to suspend the player (which apart from hurting the Pies will hurt many Dream Teams going into DT Finals!).

It doesn’t seem that there was anyone hurt in the inceident which is the positive out of this negitive incident. Stay tuned for more news later.