MRP / Trib. The MRP/Tribunal Thread - 2024 Edition

[Woobla Stainz]

So predictable with Ex Geelong and Richmond people running the A(V)FL the recent comments from the BODE about travel gives you a good insight into their mentality. This is probably a little clip about the noise the two WA teams have been making about competitive balance recently.

 

[TY24]

Tribunal has been rigged for a long time with bias. Vic ******s in charge like Michael Christian

Christian is from Bunbury would you believe

 

[Spooky17]

 

[new breed]

Christian is from Bunbury would you believe

Busselton ....

 

[wce4premiership]

Really wish our club would just come out and slag off the whole corrupt process. Who cares about a weak as piss fine time we started calling out AFL house's bullshit.

Yes, I wish Simmo just came out and called them out as incompetent ****wits, using exactly those words.

Get the club to pay the fine on his behalf.

The tackle had less potential to cause injury than every single tackle that has the arms pinned, it had less potential to cause injury than every contest where two players run in head first to contest a loose ball and it had less potential for injury than someone flying for a mark over a pack.

Incompetency doesn't even feel like it begins to cover it.

Arms not pinned, not slammed into the ground (thrown up instead) and no injury caused (landing on the back and simultaneously hitting his head).

 

[TY24]

Busselton ....

Oops

 

[sey666]

The same league thought this was worth zero weeks

 

[squashface]

And then no one will call out the AFL on this magic formula and around and around we will go again with players not actually knowing what they can and can't do.

Punched him in the head? Insufficient force, free to play.
Jumped into him and ended his career? Football act, free to play.
Tackled him without the arms pinned and didn't drive his head into the ground? Potential to cause severe injury. 2 weeks.

If they are going full on board with this "potential to cause injury" then go ahead but they obviously aren't because they pick and choose when they want to do it and no one actually calls them out on it in an official manner. Why can't these campaigners be forced to do a presser after a tribunal to field questions? Probably because they don't have answers.

If they are going to start suspending players off hypothetical outcomes that may happen or may not (see: tonight when they said if Wilson landed differently then he could have severely injured his neck or head. Nevermind that if Jesse Hogan

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Jesse Hogan

Age

31

Ht

196cm

Wt

100kg

Pos.

Fwd

Career

Season

Last 5

D

15.0

4star

K

9.3

4star

HB

5.7

4star

M

6.4

5star

T

1.4

3star

G

1.9

5star

D

10.3

3star

K

6.0

2star

HB

4.3

3star

M

5.3

5star

T

0.0

1star

G

0.0

1star

D

13.0

4star

K

9.0

4star

HB

4.0

3star

M

6.4

5star

T

1.4

4star

G

1.8

5star

's punch landed differently then he could have shattered a jaw) then they need to get rid of this grading system and just say "We will suspend you if we feel like it" because that is what is happening now.

 

[Ambrose Burnside]

**** everything but especially oh I don't know. Freo.

 

[HoneyBadger35]

And then no one will call out the AFL on this magic formula and around and around we will go again with players not actually knowing what they can and can't do.

Punched him in the head? Insufficient force, free to play.
Jumped into him and ended his career? Football act, free to play.
Tackled him without the arms pinned and didn't drive his head into the ground? Potential to cause severe injury. 2 weeks.

If they are going full on board with this "potential to cause injury" then go ahead but they obviously aren't because they pick and choose when they want to do it and no one actually calls them out on it in an official manner. Why can't these campaigners be forced to do a presser after a tribunal to field questions? Probably because they don't have answers.

If they are going to start suspending players off hypothetical outcomes that may happen or may not (see: tonight when they said if Wilson landed differently then he could have severely injured his neck or head. Nevermind that if Jesse Hogan's punch landed differently then he could have shattered a jaw) then they need to get rid of this grading system and just say "We will suspend you if we feel like it" because that is what is happening now.

Spot on. They've done well to minimise dangerous tackles from our game so if this is two weeks every time, all good, let's go.

But it isn't. Arms pinned, head first has been given zero weeks this year, and 1, and 2. Take your pick.

Hogan 1cm away from Gaffing the bloke, no potential clause there.

Some oppo fans will celebrate this because Harley has become public enemy #1 in nuff circles, but hand on heart if offered a more consistent tribunal where fans actually knew what to expect they'd all take it.

 

[KERRPOW]

Appeal it WCE.. Hire adrian anderson. He seems to be able to get players off.

 

[Ochre]

What a joke. So is this going to be the new standard punishment set for this type of incident, or is it just a one-off. Guess it will depend on the club involved and how big the game is the following week.

Has been since the start of 2023.

Dont know what people in this thread have been watching tbh, he slung a bloke and his head smashed into the ground. He's a little unlucky to have gotten the random potential to cause serious injury loading, but he's just as lucky Wilson didn't get concussed cause then it's probably 4. The idea this is some incredible miscarriage of justice or whatever is bullshit.

 

[HoneyBadger35]

The club flew his parents over in support. Not sure what to think of that.

Yeah except they didn't. They came to watch the game and have been here for ages.

 

[KERRPOW]

Will look forward for the tribunal to apply consistency when say heeney or warner tackle a player in Harley fashion in the prelim final
..

 

[Bender_]

The club flew his parents over in support. Not sure what to think of that.

I'm certain you know what to think of that; that not only will he not extend his contract, but he's already filed a lawsuit to get out if his current contract immediately and join Essendon after the bye. The Eagles will then fold and most of our players will be recruited by Fremantle. Then the world's average temperature will increase by 5 degrees before the end of the year and you'll die a virgin.

 

[Tugga27]

Victorian media declared the decision over the last three days.

David King did it on the day. The rest of them backed him up.

TBF, all 3 on The First Crack said it should be 1.

 

[Sammy J]

Not as bad as the Nic Nat suspension, but not a great outcome at all. Such a crock of shit tbh.

 

[HoneyBadger35]

Has been since the start of 2023.

Dont know what people in this thread have been watching tbh, he slung a bloke and his head smashed into the ground. He's a little unlucky to have gotten the random potential to cause serious injury loading, but he's just as lucky Wilson didn't get concussed cause then it's probably 4. The idea this is some incredible miscarriage of justice or whatever is bullshit.

Totally. They're remarkably consistent, the AFL. Don't drive people's heads into the floor in sling tackles or you get two+ weeks. Message has been sent loud and clear.

As an aside, this new angle of Harley's tackle I found pretty informative.



The standard is that pinning the arms and driving the head is a one week, which can even come down to zero in a really bizarre good bloke clause that is never to be repeated. Arms free, no injury, no missed time, no delayed symptoms is simply not two.

 

[Cornelius Roy]

How on earth can hogan and cameron get zero and Harley get two.

Absolute joke of a competition with no interest in consistency or impartiality.

Gagf VFL

Surely time to can David Grace QC, should try and get that Cumshaw bloke that does the crows when he’s available. He’s had some good wins.

 

[sey666]

Reid getting 2 weeks is no issue if there is atleast some semblance of consistency.

I have no doubt the AFL let P. Cripps off in 2022 because they knew he was going to win the Brownlow.

 

[Big_Tony]

Has been since the start of 2023.

Dont know what people in this thread have been watching tbh, he slung a bloke and his head smashed into the ground. He's a little unlucky to have gotten the random potential to cause serious injury loading, but he's just as lucky Wilson didn't get concussed cause then it's probably 4. The idea this is some incredible miscarriage of justice or whatever is bullshit.

I think it should be a week off, 100%. The extra week loading is what I can't understand based on many other decisions made this year. There is always the potential to cause injury, but they seem to pick and choose when to apply that clause.

 

[Avalor]

Has been since the start of 2023.

Dont know what people in this thread have been watching tbh, he slung a bloke and his head smashed into the ground. He's a little unlucky to have gotten the random potential to cause serious injury loading, but he's just as lucky Wilson didn't get concussed cause then it's probably 4. The idea this is some incredible miscarriage of justice or whatever is bullshit.

Smashed is too heavy a word for that - he wasn't even dazed.

 

[Bacchus]

The bullshit is the horrendous inconsistency of this tribunal and reporting system.

They pick and choose who they suspend, and for how long they suspend.

For goodness sake, Maynard actually ended a guy’s career. He did it, he didn’t potentially do it, he did it and was not suspended at all.

How do they come up with results like this?

I watched the GC v Essendon game and there was more than one incident where a player’s head was slung into the ground and nothing was said or done.

Reportable actions where a player’s head hits the ground occur in most games and nothing is said or done. Victorian commentators look after Victorian teams.

That’s the bullshit.

 

[Bacchus]

Smashed is too heavy a word for that - he wasn't even dazed.

Yes he softened his fall.

He could have really hurt him but didn’t and did his best not to.

Once he committed to the tackle there was little he could do, he wasn’t trying to hurt him as implied by the word smashed.

 

[WCErevival]

Can anyone do a table with our tribunal wins/losses.

I only remember Schofield and Lynch ever getting off.