How many weeks for Mackay?

[mattymac]

King no idea how to save face here

Showing all sorts of unrelated illegal bumps on loop

 

[Mudman85]

It’s one of those moments that brings out the child in me. Feel like saying ner ner na ner ner to a lot of people haha

 

[Muddiemoose]

Dunstall said if Clark has the ball you have to stop.

Why??

I do not agree with the decision and it now means a player like Clark has to look around all the time and move it on otherwise he can be taken out

Can’t have players looking around and trying to protect themselves can we?

Now all tackles should be outlawed that don’t come from directly in front with the tackler giving the player with the ball prior warning

 

[Mr Magic]

Vineys was worse

Never forget

Viney was not worse and I tell you what this is going to be revisited in another incident because the head issues are a problem.

What if Clark sues Mackay later?

 

[Muddiemoose]

I stand by everything I've said in this thread.

Remember how you championed this nonsense the next time one of your players is being stretchered off with a head injury because someone did something obviously dangerous while going for the ball.

Agree
No more marking contests

 

[Plugger35]

If it was Ben Long he probably would have copped 8 weeks, he got suspended for potential to cause injury, just imagine if he broke someone's jaw.

 

[sobrave]

I stand by everything I've said in this thread.

Remember how you championed this nonsense the next time one of your players is being stretchered off with a head injury because someone did something obviously dangerous while going for the ball.

you must have hated brad ebert. he did something obviously dangerous every other week.

 

[Mr Magic]

Can’t have players looking around and trying to protect themselves can we?

Now all tackles should be outlawed that don’t come from directly in front with the tackler giving the player with the ball prior warning

Who protects themselves while looking around?

 

[seriousiamserious]

Fake going for the ball and go as hard as you can without fear of suspension. The die has been cast…..until another broken jaw and we go though this again.

 

[cherrypie]

If it was Ben Long he probably would have copped 8 weeks, he got suspended for potential to cause injury, just imagine if he broke someone's jaw.

I know this is extremely tough for you but put your bias aside and you'll see there's plenty of differences between the Mackay and Long incidents

 

[Acinath]

Fake going for the ball and go as hard as you can without fear of suspension. The die has been cast…..until another broken jaw and we go though this again.

notsureifsrs

 

[Matera92]

Common sense prevailed and the numpties can go hyperventilate elsewhere.

 

[Anzacpaul]

I stand by everything I've said in this thread.

Remember how you championed this nonsense the next time one of your players is being stretchered off with a head injury because someone did something obviously dangerous while going for the ball.

The touch footy thread is that way

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[Mr Magic]

Agree
No more marking contests

How many players are out for 6-8 weeks from fractured jaws in multiple places from marking contests?

 

[THE EQUALIZER]

What a hammer blow to those prominent members of the media that demanded a severe sanction.

The credibility lost will be nearly impossible to regain and really should be boycotted or deleted from this day forward.

 

[TheEnsign]

Can't really complain about the result. I think the AFL should test out where 'duty of care' sits now and then. In this case the only criticism I think is MacKay should have ideally have gotten lower just prior to contact but you can't give someone weeks for that.

 

[NSWCROW]

Viney was not worse and I tell you what this is going to be revisited in another incident because the head issues are a problem.

What if Clark sues Mackay later?

Then DMac curses the fact he didn't bend his knees that tiny bit lower

And nahhhh on the viney call, but each to their own

 

[Mr Magic]

Agree
No more marking contests

When Cameron of the Lions put a knee into Ralphsmith in Brisbane when up on his shoulders there was no broken jaw there probably because Cameron did not create the force despite contact with the knee

 

[Mudman85]

The touch footy thread is that way

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The West ran an article today with the headline about banning accidental high contact.

Ban all accidents I say!

 

[Jibroni]

Viney was not worse and I tell you what this is going to be revisited in another incident because the head issues are a problem.

What if Clark sues Mackay later?

For what exactly? The tribunal and its legal precedence found him not guilty.

 

[Muddiemoose]

How many players are out for 6-8 weeks from fractured jaws in multiple places from marking contests?

Most of the concussions in the AFL occur in marking contests
Are we to outlaw players taking a mark from the back of a pack and putting a knee up?
Or Jacks mark the other week could of easily resulted in multiple injuries quite easily

 

[Dazza the Viking]

Right decision

 

[Turnover]

I stand by everything I've said in this thread.

Remember how you championed this nonsense the next time one of your players is being stretchered off with a head injury because someone did something obviously dangerous while going for the ball.

Lol. Collingwood netball team might let you wear the prison bar outfit.

 

[Mr Magic]

For what exactly? The tribunal and its legal precedence found him not guilty.

Clark has nerve damage supposedly. He could be affected later.

This could still go to the courts later if Clark feels he deserves compo

 

[Acinath]

Clark has nerve damage supposedly. He could be affected later.

This could still go to the courts later if Clark feels he deserves compo

Theoretically, wouldn't he have case with the AFL, not Mackay?