Ah Chee 3 weeks for his head unlawfully making contact with Good Bloke's shoulder....
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The mental gymnastics trying to defend this are inspiring.Ah Chee 3 weeks for his head unlawfully making contact with Good Bloke's shoulder....
The vibeThe bumping/spoiling player, legally, is responsible for any resultant injury caused by the ground when the target of the bump/spoil can’t protect themselves. So Cripps is deemed responsible even if it was hitting the ground which knocked him out.
If Cripps was merely contesting the ball, why did he leave his feet but not extend his arms?
Yeah imagine trying to protect young blokes from head trauma that can have serious lifelong impacts and send them to an early grave - FMD.Can't believe this will result in suspension. Games *ed.
Might need to let them borrow Hawkins and Cameron and maybe bring back prime KoutaOf course it will, the AFL manipulate this kind of stuff to suit their agenda and this year it's get Carlton into the finals.
If this doesn't end in two weeks it will set a precedent that you can NOW do this type of thing with impunity. A heap of players who have copped weeks for similar will be asking for refunds!
Will they accept cash?Might need to let them borrow Hawkins and Cameron and maybe bring back prime Kouta
No need to pay Kouta. He would play for the love of it if someone would just buy his damn souvlakis.Will they accept cash?
I'd hope the AFL general council shows highlights of Cripps giving those cheap elbows to players on the ground that he loves dealing out if they argue he is a nice guy.
Well he could have, you know, contested the ball by reaching out for it, punched it, or slowed down half a step and tackled Ah Chee once he had possession. Instead he jumped in the air and bumped him in the head. No use turning yourself in knots to make excuses for it.The AFL likes to use the "turned to protect himself" to move on from suspension talk, so I expect the narrative will be that Cripps left the ground to contest for the ball after having no other reasonable means to contest the ball…
Let's play netball or tennis.Yeah imagine trying to protect young blokes from head trauma that can have serious lifelong impacts and send them to an early grave - FMD.
Friendly reminder that the average life span for people suffering from CTE could be as low as 51 years. The game would be *ed if we allowed this s**t to happen unnoticed and unreprimanded, or worse still - celebrated it like the sport used to.
I think because the hit is in the contest and is just Cripps bracing himself reduces it down to careless. I can’t see a world where the hit is considered severe. I mean it wasn’t even a free kick. Rioli’s hit was 10x harder. Honestly the actual contact was fairly low impact. It’s the whiplash afterwards that causes damage. Do they blame Cripps for that? Obviously he has to take some sort of responsibility for that. The more I look at it the more it seems like if Ah Chee got up and went about his day it wouldn’t even be a week.Well he could have, you know, contested the ball by reaching out for it, punched it, or slowed down half a step and tackled Ah Chee once he had possession. Instead he jumped in the air and bumped him in the head. No use turning yourself in knots to make excuses for it.
Chrisso only has to decide if it’s careless/high/high and 2 weeks, or careless/high/severe and 3+.
Good response. If you're gona pull this macho BS, don't feign sadness next time there's a Shane Tuck incident.Let's play netball or tennis.
Yep - I think that will be the argument. I'm leaning toward 'careless'Think high and high is a given.
Careless 2 weeks, intentional 3 weeks
Maybe golf? Good money in that.Good response. If you're gona pull this macho BS, don't feign sadness next time there's a Shane Tuck incident.
I don't think it can be 1 unless the tribunal thinks it's medium impact, which would be very difficult to argue.
Not even in the same ballpark as the Stewart hit and no where near the 4+ weeks people are wanting here.
Initial hit is careless medium impact to the head which is one week. Ah Chee hitting his head on the ground makes it high impact and you get two weeks. Seems pretty obvious but who knows how the AFL play it nowadays.
Would be lucky but I think no matter the result Carlton will argue it. Season on the line and they need Cripps out there. I can see a case for it for sure just depends how well they present it.A bump to the head left a bloke concussed, you'd be very lucky to get medium impact
Carless/High contact seem the only givens.
You’re not following the way the system works.I think because the hit is in the contest and is just Cripps bracing himself reduces it down to careless. I can’t see a world where the hit is considered severe. I mean it wasn’t even a free kick. Rioli’s hit was 10x harder. Honestly the actual contact was fairly low impact.
What? I said exactly this, I think it will be given two weeks by the MRO. But I think Carlton will try and argue it down to medium impact. The concussion most likely didn’t occur from the bump itself so there is wiggle room there for Carlton to try and argue.You’re not following the way the system works.
It will very likely be graded as careless, no-one is saying it was intentional. Those are the only two options.
Then they look at where the contact occurred. I think we can all agree it was high, as opposed to body contact.
Then they look at severity of impact. This is the only part in any sort of doubt in my view. It won’t be medium as a concussion occurred. It can be high, which is 2 weeks, or severe, which is a tribunal referral and 3 weeks or more.
So that’s your range, 2 weeks to whatever the tribunal decides. I think he’s unlikely to get 4 like Stewart as there was less time to react, so in my view 2-3 weeks.
Rioli’s situation is not relevant as it was a marking contest. They’re not the same.