In skilled sport there have at all times been villains, the blokes that their very own followers normally love and opposition followers like to hate.
Then there’s Brayden Maynard, who was as much as a few of his common methods on Friday night time because the Dockers stormed dwelling to grab an 11.9 (75) to 10.15 (75) draw with the Pies.
The 27-year-old Collingwood defender has a penchant for rubbing some folks the mistaken manner, whether or not it’s the intense haircut, his confrontational fashion or in fact that collision with Angus Brayshaw in final 12 months’s qualifying last.
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Whereas Maynard was cleared by the Tribunal after he left the previous Melbourne star concussed, the actual fact Brayshaw was pressured to retire a number of months later made the Collingwood premiership participant enemy No. 1 in some folks’s eyes, pretty or not.
Maynard, who went on to characteristic in Collingwood’s flag success towards the Lions three weeks later, was flooded with abuse after Brayshaw’s February retirement.
On Friday night time, Maynard discovered himself the subject of one other torrent of adverse social media response, this time over a halftime confrontation with Fremantle nice Nat Fyfe.
Within the dying seconds of the second quarter at Optus Stadium, Fyfe gave Collingwood star Josh Daicos the slightest of bumps at a stoppage.
That was cause sufficient for Maynard to see purple, pushing previous one other Docker so he may confront the two-time Brownlow medallist.
As you possibly can see within the video participant above, that led to a melee as Freo gamers bought round Fyfe and plenty of Pies tried to tug Maynard out of the fray.
“Nicely not surprisingly Brayden Maynard finds himself proper smack bang in the course of this little donation fest I’d name it,” Garry Lyon mentioned on Fox Footy.
“There’s just one participant to search for,” Jordan Lewis chipped in.
It was simply the newest in an extended line of comparable incidents involving Maynard, which could be considered as a participant standing up for a teammate or a famous bother maker creating an incident when it wasn’t required.
The vast majority of X customers appeared to take an analogous stance on this episode, with many utilizing the identical time period to explain the 2022 All Australian.
“I get the impression some folks don’t like Brayden Maynard, can’t think about why,” was one remark.
“Somebody must let him know he’s not the hardest individual within the AFL!” one other replied.
“Maynard’s powerful man act is carrying actually skinny,” said one other footy fan.
“Think about having a go at Nat Fyfe. Maynard the fakest powerful man there may be and it’s daylight to second place,” wrote one other.
One other had a considerably playful dig on the Pie, writing: “Jogs my memory of my 9 12 months outdated mouthing off. However he’s 9. Maynard is a grown grownup.”
In fact there have been some footy followers supporting Maynard, however there have been a number of, together with some who felt he was merely standing up for a teammate.
One wrote: “Good bloke. Takes care of his mates.”
One other responded to the “pretend powerful” feedback by stating: “Maynard would belt absolutely the f**ok out of your entire Freo crew.”
One other fan wrote: “Maynard is a gun. Powerful.”
Then there was one other that will have summed up the scenario, writing: “I can see how he’s hated, however when he’s in your crew it’s totally different.”
Within the true subject of battle, Fremantle made a quick begin and held the lead for many of the opening time period.
The Dockers led by 13 factors on the fundamental break, however the premiers labored their manner on prime within the third quarter, holding the house aspect and not using a objective till late within the last time period thus far to open up a 21-point lead.
Fremantle wasn’t executed, nevertheless, kicking 5 of the final six targets to roar dwelling and seize a share of the spoils in one other draw for 2024.
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