Peter Wright contact with Harry Cunningham: Pleads Guilty and Receives 4 Week Suspension

[quotemokc]

This is the equivalent of blaming a truck for not braking hard enough when a car has run a red light in front of them.

 

[Maddo11]

If we're doing driving analogies, I'm going to need coloured lines for car a and car b...

 

[yodellinhank]

I eagerly await some responses from certain Essendon supporters who were very opinionated on their thoughts towards Brayden Maynard.

You're right. He should get off. It was a flinch reaction.

 

[WindyHillZephyr]

Could someone upload video of Will hayward

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hit in Wardlaw, may 20, 2023. Enough similarities in my opinion. He got off - won't be a similarity.

 

[WindyHillZephyr]

Of the Hayward incident, the AFL said: "As the ball is in the air, Hayward and Wardlaw both jump from opposite directions to contest and high contact is made by Hayward on Wardlaw. It was the view of the MRO that Hayward's actions were not unreasonable in the circumstances. No further action was taken."

 

[Achy Blakey Heart]

He's gone...why aren't we talking about how the umps allowed a mark in row F leading to an Essendon goal. Just makes out sport look so amatuer compared to big sport internationally. Shouldnt happen.

 

[Dangerousfield]

Maynard rule makes this an open and shut case of multiple weeks - the exact number to be determined - despite all the back and forth we will have to hear from people who can't accept reality.

You can disagree with the Maynard rule, but it exists. He simply won't get let off.

Posters on here need to acquaint themselves with the rule changes the AFL made over the summer in response to the Maynard hit. Stuff that has got off in the past is now sanctionable.

The new Maynard rule got SPP 4 weeks - the standard has been set

Big Pete got caught up in the new Essendon Edge BS

 

[Milanista28]

He'll get his whack, I think it's worth 2, but suspect he gets 3 after visiting the tribunal.

He's not a dirty player at all, he's feeling like dirt about it for sure, good man is Pete.

 

[JT_the_Man]

That’s literally just Peter Wright’s marking action when he’s going for a chest mark. Football act, was called play on. Maybe Cunningham should get tf out of the big fellas way…

 

[SM]

If Maynard got off then Wright gets off. Thats all their really is to is. Unless they admit they made a mistake with the Maynard one

They did, they changed the rules.

 

[Vindicater]

He will get four and we will argue it down to three at the tribunal.

 

[demondavey]

It doesn't matter whether he was contesting for the ball, or bracing for impact, or whatever. I don't think it was his intent to lay Cunnigham out, but he did everything else wrong. He left the ground, he led with his shoulder and elbow, he missed the ball, he made heavy contact to the head and he knocked someone out. The AFL have rightly decided that the "but it's a contact sport, he only had a split second to act, etc." defences are irrelevant here: all those things that Wright did have been clearly defined as big no-nos and that the offending player is culpable irrespective of their intent.

His one saving grace, which makes it a lesser offence than the Webster incident, is that the ball was in the vicinity, but there's no way he gets away with fewer than 4 weeks. The AFL have been pretty blunt that the onus is on the players to avoid engaging in acts that are likely to result in heavy contact with opponents' heads, and they're going to keep handing out heavy suspensions until the players get the message.

I think this post sums it up.

 

[demondavey]

They did, they changed the rules.

Correct. Which in itself is wrong.

 

[demondavey]

Protect himself from the Hercules that is Cunningham - 20cms and 20 kgs smaller.

Peripheral view... bollocks. Saw him, lined him up and didn't really try to hide it

Makes it even worse when Essendon have come out and said they’ll play on the edge.

 

[Hinkley29]

Just bad timing from Peter.

Should have done it in first week of finals, would be a “footy act” and no case to answer.

Unfortunately he did it in week 2 when the AFL will be looking to set a low stakes example. He is done.

 

[Eshay187]

Not a great look for the club when the coach says he is hyping them up to play with an edge of violence and then within the first few minutes this happens.

In fact quite embarrassing.

 

[gordo2016]

Could someone upload video of Will hayward hit in Wardlaw, may 20, 2023. Enough similarities in my opinion. He got off - won't be a similarity.

The Hayward one was from a handball. He needed to jump to contest the ball and I could see why they let him off, but it could have went either way. Did Wright have another option rather than choose to leave the ground and bump? Why not try to stay on your feet and put a fist on the ball? Reckon he is in trouble.

 

[MF]

If Maynard got off then Wright gets off. Thats all their really is to is. Unless they admit they made a mistake with the Maynard one

I'm pretty sure they've come out and said incidents like the Maynard one will be judged differently going forward.

 

[MF]

He'll get his whack, I think it's worth 2, but suspect he gets 3 after visiting the tribunal.

He's not a dirty player at all, he's feeling like dirt about it for sure, good man is Pete.

Agreed. I don't think there was anything malicious in it and he seemed genuinely upset and apologetic about it toward Cunningham after the game. Hope it's only 2.

 

[Buget]

Of the Hayward incident, the AFL said: "As the ball is in the air, Hayward and Wardlaw both jump from opposite directions to contest and high contact is made by Hayward on Wardlaw. It was the view of the MRO that Hayward's actions were not unreasonable in the circumstances. No further action was taken."

Doesn’t matter. It was last season and the tribunal doesn’t need to consider previous season’s precedents.

I expect it will be graded careless, high contact and probably severe contact given that Cunningham left the game. So I expect it to be referred to the tribunal.

I thought the impact was more clumsy, and unlike the SPP and Webster incidents, were they went to bump (as much as Port tried to prove SPP wasn’t) Wright miss-timed/got out of shape once he left the ground in a dynamic game.

Still the player is responsible for the outcome. So I can see the AFL asking for 4, which is mitigated to 3. Which given current “community standards” is probably about right.

 

[CrowFan77]

Can't see how anybody can argue he was protecting himself. Consider this scenario:

You're going for a run on the footpath. A kid runs out from behind a fence chasing a ball. You have a split second to react. Do you:

1) Tuck your shoulder in to protect yourself.
2) Put your hands out and try to cushion the impact.

Nobody is going to mow the kid over using their shoulder.

 

[Oliver09]

Wright will get 3-4 weeks and that's just the way it is in the current climate. It wasn't a dog act, he wasn't sniping, he got him high after bracing a split second before impact when realising Cunningham was coming across his path to the ball he was trying to mark.

The carry on by Sydney, in particular Heeney and Papley after this game is pathetic. Wright will get weeks, get over it. There will be a situation during the next couple of seasons where a Sydney player does a similar action to what Wright has done. It's done on instinct and it's hard to change behaviours of players overnight after being taught a different way for so long.

The only other incident of any note was a late collision from Draper into a Sydney opponent which rightly recieved a 50m penalty. Sydney and their supporters think they can do no wrong.

 

[bomberlegend2007]

Protect himself from the Hercules that is Cunningham - 20cms and 20 kgs smaller.

Peripheral view... bollocks. Saw him, lined him up and didn't really try to hide it

His eyes were on the ball.

He will get weeks, but let’s not change the facts.

 

[ashep]

This is the equivalent of blaming a truck for not braking hard enough when a car has run a red light in front of them.

This is the equivalent of whatever the shittest analogy I've ever seen is.

 

[JT_the_Man]

I don’t know what anyone expected him to do. If he throws his arms out like some suggested Cunningham shatters his ribs. He was going for a chest mark and turned to protect at the last second.