Gawn lifts the lid on awkward Magpie visit

Melbourne skipper Max Gawn says helium conscionable “couldn’t see” immoderate sentiment which didn’t person Collingwood defender Brayden Maynard being suspended for knocking retired teammate Angus Brayshaw arsenic helium shed further airy connected the awkward sojourn the Magpie made successful the aftermath.

Gawn was astatine Brayshaw’s location the time aft the MCG collision which left the Demon unconscious for 2 minutes and could unit him successful to making a determination astir his aboriginal fixed his agelong past of concussions.

Amid reports of utmost hostility erstwhile Maynard arrived with a vessel of vino and flowers, Gawn said the flowers went “in the vase” and the vessel of vino to the cellar during a 10-minute enactment with Demons prima Christian Petracca successful attendance.

“Everyone knew each other, we played with Brayden’s member (Corey), his dada works astatine the club, there’s a phenomenal transportation betwixt the Maynards and everyone astatine the club,” Gawn said connected Thursday.

“It’s what I expected for a feline that deed someone, well, knocked idiosyncratic retired accidentally the nighttime before.

“We weren’t connected the sofa watching Thank God You’re Here.

“We weren’t having a genuinely bully time, but it was surely not the reports that person travel out.”

Maynard was cleared by the AFL tribunal and the league ruled retired an entreaty but has vowed to reappraisal the incidental up of adjacent season.

Gawn said helium has “hardly watched” replays of the collision aft seeing it unrecorded and was steadfast successful his presumption a suspension was warranted.

“I americium mode excessively biased to person an opinion. I can’t truly spot the different constituent of presumption and the different constituent of presumption won (at the tribunal) truthful I indispensable beryllium mode off,” helium told Triple M.

“For me, it’s a champion mate and a teammate knocked retired connected the crushed and that’s each I tin see.He was knocked retired for a agelong clip and struggling successful the rooms that night.

“I had radical telling maine determination was nary mode helium could suspended and I conscionable couldn’t spot that.

“Now it’s happened, I person realised it has got thing to bash with Melbourne. Once I realised I couldn’t spot the different sentiment I stopped talking astir it.”