Tribunal

[Redgum]

Franklin & Tippett only getting a week each , what a joke. They looked very intentional and should have gone for weeks. If that was a Docker ,would have copped heaps.

 

[valkorum]

How does Buddy get "careless" for RUNNING PAST THE BALL.

 

[Wizard]

Someone explain how Buddy gets 1 and Steven May at the start of the year gets 3?

 

[Nothing]

Someone explain how Buddy gets 1 and Steven May at the start of the year gets 3?

May KO'ed Rockliff so was deemed high impact (otherwise the same careless and head hit). As mentioned elsewhere they all start as careless impact (Ballas, Franklin, May have all been careless) and it is designed that way. Intent needs to be established with regard to intending to hit the head. If Edwards was KO'ed it would have been 3 down to 2.

The idiocy of it all is that the current injury is penalised, not the potential for injury. If you're going to hit someone, hit a tough prick. Because of they don't get back up, you're gone for high impact.

 

[Tommo]

Just as a comparison Ballantyne was judged the same way. The only reason he got an extra week was a previous record.

The following is lifted straight from the 2015 MRP guidelines.



Ballantyne = Careless, Medium, High Contact = 2 (+1 for record) down to 1 (+1 for record) for early plea = 2

Buddy = Carless, medium, high contact = 2 down to 1 for early plea. = 1

So from that, even though i think that Buddies could have been considered Intentional rather than careless, there is some consistency occurring. In a way Ballantyne is fortunate that the MRP didn't consider his incident as high impact, which they very well could have considering Taylor was just about knocked out. That would have resulted in a 3 match ban.

So looking at those two cases in isolation they both could have been judged more harshly than they were. Buddy could have been judged as intentional lifting him to a 2 matcher and Ballantyne could have been judged high impact.

 

[RickSanchez]

Did laugh at "Buddy = Carless"
He crash another one?