Live Event Toby Greene fronts the tribunal - Suspension appeal

[GROTTO]

So salty.

 

[asanque]

 

[GetDimmaBack]

Is anyone surprised?

Would've been much more surprised with a suspension, TBH...

 

[Ancient Tiger]

Sometimes it's easy to forget the AFL are in charge of making and manipulating these decisions. Like Ellis and Cotchin in 2017, you're allowed to get away with anything so long as it boosts ratings.

Cotchin went for the ball and he could hardly have gone lower to avoid a high hit. How can you compare that with this disgusting off the ball behaviour?

 

[Martin#4]

No issue with it.

Can’t definitively see him digging his fingers into his eyes, I doubt the Bulldogs medical report would’ve left that out if he did.

Pushed his face with his hand/fingers to drive him into the grass and pulled his hair.

s**t look, but hardly worth the de-registration Bulldogs fans have been screaming for.

 

[GetDimmaBack]

So he got off because he's a good player?

AFL manipulating it's own rules very nicely.

 

[hamwell]

Cotchin went for the ball and he could hardly have lower to avoid a high hit. How can you compare this disgusting off the ball behaviour?

Hasn't stopped other players from being suspended for the same thing.
Want to defend the Ellis decision?

 

[4THAWN]

So he got off because he's a good player?

AFL manipulating it's own rules very nicely.

you're acting like this is something new

 

[XhazzafootyX]

Bro, why have you invested so much time in this thread anyway? Be it through posts or liking anything anti-Bulldogs?

I guess when you support St Kilda, you gotta spend time on something in September hey?

I actually am a big fan of the bont and sometimes enjoy watching them (dogs) play (except for when they play for free kicks and when the umpires aren’t on your side).
But I am just sticking up for what I believe in and I believe he didn’t aim to eye gouge bontempelli.
And I’m just spending my off season the same as you (watching other teams in the finals)

 

[Ancient Tiger]

Hasn't stopped other players from being suspended for the same thing.
Want to defend the Ellis decision?

I can’t recall the exact issues with Ellis. However, the tribunal has also changed a lot since 2017 too. This decision today is completely against what the AFL says it wants to stamp out.

 

[AWOL]

Can’t definitively see him digging his fingers into his eyes

Perhaps not, but didn’t he plead guilty to it?

 

[Jhye Clark 13]

Would've been much more surprised with a suspension, TBH...

The AFL were never going to suspend their own. It warranted 6 weeks. He's a grub. If Bont had any balls he'd have smacked him in the chops.

 

[Blues_Man]

Very lucky boy is Toby..he has a bit of mongrel in him and pushes the boundaries all the time ..but i would still love him in my team.

 

[Ancient Tiger]

I actually am a big fan of the bont and sometimes enjoy watching them (dogs) play (except for when they play for free kicks and when the umpires aren’t on your side).
But I am just sticking up for what I believe in and I believe he didn’t aim to eye gouge bontempelli.
And I’m just spending my off season the same as you (watching other teams in the finals)

Who cares what he aimed to do? What he did do was so unsportsmanlike and so against what we want to see our junior players do that it demanded suspension.

 

[hamwell]

I actually am a big fan of the bont and sometimes enjoy watching them (dogs) play (except for when they play for free kicks and when the umpires aren’t on your side).
But I am just sticking up for what I believe in and I believe he didn’t aim to eye gouge bontempelli.
And I’m just spending my off season the same as you (watching other teams in the finals)

Ah, here comes the backpedaling upon being called out for your agenda?

Eye gouging? There were about 3-4 things in that incident that merited a 1 week suspension. This point's been raised like 10 times in this thread alone, but that didn't stop you from mindlessly liking every post to the contrary

Let's face it, you're a miserable little Saints supporter who still has it in for us big time after 2016

 

[who_let_the_dogs_out]

What a hero

 

[Brunswick Trap King]

I just want to see the footage that some Dogs fans seem to have that shows the eye gouge. Where is it guys?

Also keen to see this seemingly mythical footage.

 

[hamwell]

I can’t recall the exact issues with Ellis. However, the tribunal has also changed a lot since 2017 too. This decision today is completely against what the AFL says it wants to stamp out.

The AFL protects players from suspension come finals time. Even if something were to be referred to the tribunal, they'd make sure he's safe.

 

[Milanista28]

Dp any dogs supporters like him?

 

[GetDimmaBack]

I actually am a big fan of the bont and sometimes enjoy watching them (dogs) play (except for when they play for free kicks and when the umpires aren’t on your side).
But I am just sticking up for what I believe in and I believe he didn’t aim to eye gouge bontempelli.
And I’m just spending my off season the same as you (watching other teams in the finals)

So you'd be okay with him doing that to Saints players?

Wow. Just wow.

 

[Adz]

The precedent was set with NN.

 

[Ancient Tiger]

Dp any dogs supporters like him?

Irrelevant. I’m not a dog supporter but what he did was a dog act. We do not want our kids in junior leagues replicating this. He deserved at least 2 weeks for this.

 

[Blueboys11]

Sorry but this is a disgusting decision. What message are we sending our juniors? You can shove the opposition’s head into the turf, attempt to gouge eyes, scratch the players face and then all you have to do is be remorseful and you can avoid a suspension.

This is an absolute disgrace.

Short memory!?

What example did it set when Cotchin went past the ball and hip and shouldered Shiel to the head in a prelim?

 

[Elmer_Judd]

Pretty rapt by this decison, good to see that trial by media/kangaroo court didn't happen in this instance.

Best of luck to Toby and the Giants against the Lions, stick it up the haters son

 

[Strange Cat]

Terrible but not unexpected the AFL has lost the plot