Orange crush
Norm Smith Medallist
- Aug 12, 2017
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Neale is paying for the sins of StewartHe really hasn’t. Based on a precedent he probably could have done with a week for the contact on wines and even that was accidental while trying to spoil a handball of all things. The only other times anything has ever been brought up was the rarely invoked (ie. it isn’t at all because it doesn’t exist) ‘he hit him too hard’ rule for his bump into the ribs of a Suns player this year, and last year when he clearly tried to collect the ball and Krueger went for it as well and he threw himself on the ground, didn’t get concussed, played out the game and even Luke Hodge said Krueger played for the free kick.
So when has he been protected? Ok so he maybe dodged a one week holiday for a fairly incidental and certainly accidental attempt to stop a handball. Wow he’s the first player ever to get the better of a 50-50 MRO decision.
The one clear cut case he’s had he got his right whack and sat down for a month.





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