2019 Non-Crows AFL Chat Part 2

What do you think of it?

  • All's fair in Footy and War; nothing to see here

    Votes: 1 1.8%
  • Stratton should be fined by the MRP

    Votes: 5 8.9%
  • Clarko and the Hawks should impose their own penalty

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Stratton should be suspended by the MRP

    Votes: 50 89.3%

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Really? This is an adult content free forum.
Am I doing it right PC Jen?🙄
Actually... don’t believe it’s PC you are complaining about, rather the terms of use of the site. ;)

As for Cockwombling Numbat... it’s as child friendly as you could possibly get.
 
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I think it's fine what the AFL and the umpire did. It's not like it happens every week, the umpire did the right thing to give a warning but the AFL needs to make it known to other players they won't just get a warning if they do the same thing. It would have been criminal to effectively give Essendon the match because of that. Common sense umpiring is a good thing.

The rule of not moving the goal posts is one of the few black and white rules AFL footy has.

Absolute free, or in this case 50m I guess. Essendon were robbed...not that I give a **** ha ha ha.
 
I don't think the players should be able to personally attack an umpire, and that's what it was.
This. Regardless of what was said (and in all honesty, if you are going to attack an umpire, there are far better options available), you just can’t attack an umpire. EVER. (As much as we’d all like to at times).
 
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And no doubt get 2 games for their efforts.

This comp is a joke (as we all know). Tex would've been rubbed out for sure.
That d!@khead Christian has already suspended Walker multiple times for much, much less. The AFL have lost the plot completely.
 

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This. Regardless of what was said (and in all honesty, if you are going to attack an umpire, there are far better options available), you just can’t attack an umpire. EVER. (As much as we’d all like to at times).

Especially a personal attack which is what it was. It's worse than swearing about a decision because it was a personal insult. Absolutely no place for that.
 

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Actually it's not because it's worded as intentionally shake. So they have to interpret whether it was intentional and whether it was a shake.
The rule of not moving the goal posts is one of the few black and white rules AFL footy has.

Absolute free, or in this case 50m I guess. Essendon were robbed...not that I give a **** ha ha ha.

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Actually it's not because it's worded as intentionally shake. So they have to interpret whether it was intentional and whether it was a shake.

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All they need to do is clarify/change the rule to disallow climbing a post, regardless of shaking.

I don't see what asking Rampe for a "please explain" achieves. What - he's going to come up with an explanation that makes it OK?
 
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Yep. Said last week they should have found him guilty, given him a week, then given a week discount for being a good bloke if they really wanted. Now they have no choice but to let him keep elbowing people in the face.

Be interesting if he does it for a third time this week for example and see what the response is.
 

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I don't think the players should be able to personally attack an umpire, and that's what it was.

He said "you talk like a little girl".

What if it is factully correct? Can you still not say it?

Very clumsy way of saying speak up you dill I cant hear you.

But he didnt call the umpire a girl.
 
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Actually it's not because it's worded as intentionally shake. So they have to interpret whether it was intentional and whether it was a shake.

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Yeah nah. Your drawing a long bow there. He shook the goal post by intentionally climbing it. Ignorance of the rule is no excuse. His action was intentional and involved shaking the post.
 

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Surprise surprise Ablett got off. Time for someone to sniper him back
Ablett and Fyfe are covered under the "good bloke" rule. Any possible suspension is minimised as they are good blokes. Trent Cotchin got off in the 2017 Prelim because of this rule. It's the same reason why Luke Hodge gets away with what he does.
 

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Yeah nah. Your drawing a long bow there. He shook the goal post by intentionally climbing it. Ignorance of the rule is no excuse. His action was intentional and involved shaking the post.

I think we can all agree his intention was to climb the pole, that is beyond dispute.

Was it foreseeable that by climbing the post it would shake?

I think if most people were told to go and shake that post they would go up to it, grab it with both hands and shake away, or they might bump or "hip and shoulder it".

Do you think anyone would start climbing up the pole?

He didn't just jump onto the pole he was trying to get as high as he could.
 
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I think we can all agree his intention was to climb the pole, that is beyond dispute.

Was it foreseeable that by climbing the post it would shake?

I think if most people were told to go and shake that post they would go up to it, grab it with both hands and shake away, or they might bump or "hip and shoulder it".

Do you think anyone would start climbing up the pole?

He didn't just jump onto the pole he was trying to get as high as he could.
Somebody’s intention could be to jump high on the mark, but if he unintentionally jumps over the mark, it’s still a free.
 
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