Play Nice Toby Greene and "protecting the space"

[Turnover]

Rule will be changed, made up, interpreted differently, it’s the AFL. Will they change it this week or at the end of season?

 

[Gydafud]

Actually yes.

I am surprised that more players are not nominating themselves for the ruck, but not contesting it, to break tags.

Seems exploitable based on the Danger incident.

 

[captain blood 17]

Needs to be banned.

Reiwoldt does it too.

Nick? Because Jack doesn’t. Get some footage of Nick doing it please.


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[Chuckie357]

I don't like it but how can people be in such an uproar over it but not care about knees into temples and so on with a speccy? End of the day they are both a dangerous act during a marking contest...

That one is usually more uncontrolled as you are jumping and your opponent can move or get knocked and you are watching the ball. Every time Greene has stuck his foot out it has been deliberate and controlled

 

[matty lloyd the champ]

I will say that Toby is not deliberately trying to hurt his opponent but rather ward them away from the marking space.

 

[tugga]

Do you want kids doing this in junior matches?
I think everyone knows the answer to this.

 

[beta_condition]

People cant defend Green here, he's not putting a knee up in a reflex action he's sticking his foot out and making contact with the opposition player. That last one on Grundy was disgusting.

 

[gavaniacono]

Greene is the boss.
He can do what he wants.
* the whiners.

 

[DivideandMultiply]

He's a dirty player. Repeat offender. Nobody else even considers this to be an option. I consider it a kick - but if the umpires can't adjudicate it that way, they need to add a rule to stop this. It's beyond a "bad look" as Lingy put it, it's downright dangerous and lousy sportsmanship.

It's a kick. His feet were on the ground, he wasn't jumping for a mark.

 

[Richard Pryor]

Looks pretty obvious to me that he's aiming to take out his opponents ribs with his studs. He'll probably have to break a rib for the AFL to act.

 

[DivideandMultiply]

I will say that Toby is not deliberately trying to hurt his opponent but rather ward them away from the marking space.

He is 100% trying to hurt his opponent.

 

[Power Raid]

That wasn’t the huge mistake, Greene thinks he’s playing within the rules and a lot of people agree with him with the way the rules are written. Huge mistake was not changing the rules at the end of the season to outlaw the action. Jarrad Waite did it for years and I thought it was crazy they didn’t change the rule, couldn’t believe that the didn’t change the rule at the end of last season after the Dahlhaus incident.

daniel motlop was rightly pinged for the same action, where he used his foot to push into the oppositions back

there is a difference between guarding space and kicking in danger

 

[Tugga27]

I got ripped to pieces on here when I said the knees in speccy had to be banned

And rightly so.

 

[exxcessivve]

The studs make it a problem. I think there needs to be a rule change.

 

[Mister B]

Should be pretty simple to officiate. If the studs are out pay a free kick in the future.

Sadly the umps can’t invent that rule on the fly

Actually, the last one his foot was planted on the ground. It wasn't protecting space in the air, it was a straight up kick.

 

[Lavender Bushranger]

Wouldn’t mind seeing a defender try kicking him in the head for a change

Defenders have been launching 'leg first' into the backs of unprotected forwards for 100 years.

 

[Wesley2]

studs make contact with player = free kick ad 50m penalty

What if you climb up a teammates back for MOTY? 50 metre free to your mate?

 

[adammania9]

I can’t defend this campaigner anymore

 

[rippersnipper]

I don't like it but when you're allowed to knee players in the back of the head to go up for a specks, then who knows really?

 

[Smartest Brain]

Knees to back of head in marking contest are way more dangerous and legal.

 

[Phone]

Hopefully someone can upload that little video package C7 put together.

 

[flamethrower]

Would rather get a boot to the guts than a knee to the back of the head.

 

[Big Cox 88]

Free kick and a fine for first offense. Week off for any further offenses.

 

[DivideandMultiply]

The last kick was stationary. He didn't jump, just kicked the player.

 

[DivideandMultiply]

Knees to back of head in marking contest are way more dangerous and legal.

Kicking has always been banned.

It's one thing to do it jumping for a mark, but a kick firmly on the ground is a kick.