Is it time for Michael Christian to go

[Muddiemoose]

The amount of normal tackles being called dangerous and bumps being called on potential or injury will eventually cause fan loss.

Don’t think it would make a noticeable difference for the AFL

They have the monopoly on the sport with no real competition unless you want to follow a local league or club but the loss of even 1000 fans across the league wouldn’t make any difference for them

 

[TheWeapon]

Christian has been Steve Hockings puppet. Hocking needs to go before he does permanent damage to the game

 

[TP86]

If Christian goes it'll only be because GWS need the same wage relief from head office for Leon Cameron as what North Melbourne got when they moved on Brad Scott with $ owing.

 

[Do the Dew]

Maybe gerards Geelong bias coming through on that one

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Rinse and repeat with his defense of Ablett a couple of years ago for two elbows to opposition players' heads in consecutive weeks.

 

[Do the Dew]

The amount of normal tackles being called dangerous and bumps being called on potential or injury will eventually cause fan loss.

Like Pickett getting a week despite no high contact, no injury, no damage whatsoever.

 

[Grand Uncle Horace]

Shocking should be the first to go. Late faux head high spoils, elbows and tunnelling have been unpenalised by Umps and MRO has no interest.

Fair enough to address head high bumps and dangerous tackles, but the focus is narrow. It is like games being umped by 'rule of the week'.

Tunnelling is cowardly and obviously can cause serious injury.

 

[Genghis Tron]

Tunnelling is cowardly and obviously can cause serious injury.

But it does grant greater protection in aerial warfare and bombing conditions.

 

[HairyO]

Shocking should be the first to go. Late faux head high spoils, elbows and tunnelling have been unpenalised by Umps and MRO has no interest.

Fair enough to address head high bumps and dangerous tackles, but the focus is narrow. It is like games being umped by 'rule of the week'.

Tunnelling is cowardly and obviously can cause serious injury.

Yeah there have been so many players shoving other players in the air and noone is picking up on it.

Of course it will be all the news once someone ends up injured. But the AFL also needs to punish staging. With big fines. And stop rewarding players who duck or initiate high contact.

There is zero consistency.

 

[Gordon Farkas]

Leigh Matthews seemed to think so...

 

[Noidnadroj]

How many incidents this year where 2 players with the sole focus being the ball has resulted in serious injury …unless I’m mistaken, it’s one. This is the greatest beat-up of all time.

A rule update is simple : If you are going for the ball but are second to the ball (I’d include a time or distance for clarity … 0.1 seconds or something similar) then you become responsible for any damage whether you choose to bump or not. And you only face suspension if the player you injure misses a week or more. If you are first to the ball or reach it simultaneously, ala Mackay and Clark, and you have eyes for the ball it’s fair game.

You cannot possibly legislate with a rule that says anything along the lines of penalising players for attacking the ball with too much speed or ferocity… it’s lunacy.




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[Chuckie357]

Yes. Average player average commentator average mro. Give it to Matthew Richardson so he can be average at all 3 now as well.

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Sh1ts all over any forwards port Adelaide ever had

 

[tiger_tough]

Bump.

Surely it's time for this bloke to go. If anyone in the workforce made as many errors as this bloke they'd be out of a job pretty quickly. He wastes so much time, effort and money of everyone involved over and over. At the very least go back to having a panel so those with some common sense can pull him up when he's having another moment.

Get rid of him.

 

[Kwality]

Sh1ts all over any forwards port Adelaide ever had

Tredrea lifted the Premiership Cup.

 

[Back One Out]

[...checks what round it is...]

Geez, they've come early for Christian this year

Normally we have to wait until May before we demand that fool's head on a spike

 

[BF Tiger]

Is Christian getting kick backs from the lawyers?

 

[Stamos]

He must have photos of Gil, or some of the commissioners.
How else could somebody so publicly incompetent hold a job for so long?

 

[Truckosaurus]

He must have photos of Gil, or some of the commissioners.
How else could somebody so publicly incompetent hold a job for so long?

Welcome to the AFL administration. Please leave your competence with the doorman. No school tie, no entry. Your membership is valid for life.

 

[caitsith01]

Rinse and repeat with his defense of Ablett a couple of years ago for two elbows to opposition players' heads in consecutive weeks.

I love these theories. Someone post the table showing Geelong getting more cumulative weeks of suspension than other clubs.

Remember that time Selwood got a week for lightly pushing his brother after play had stopped?

 

[Do the Dew]

I love these theories. Someone post the table showing Geelong getting more cumulative weeks of suspension than other clubs.

Remember that time Selwood got a week for lightly pushing his brother after play had stopped?

My post from 2 years ago was talking about how Gerard Whateley defends Geelong players, a la Ablett's consecutive elbows to people's head that he somehow got off scot free.

 

[Red Bull]

Michael Christian has been shown to be utterly incompetent time and time again.
He doesn’t need to be publicly hung but the clubs need to privately lodge a vote of no confidence in him with the AFL and see him moved on.
Enough’s enough … it’s become embarrassing really …

 

[Sqotty from office works]

The reasoning on the Harry decision was woeful.
He had a chance to tackle and didn't.
He had a chance to smother and didn't.
He took neither option but instead raised both arms to make contact with the head.

Deserved a week for bad football brain.

 

[HTPunter]

He’s an idiot.

I still don’t get how he got the role. Why was he anointed better than a majority decision from a panel?

 

[Do the Dew]

He’s an idiot.

I still don’t get how he got the role. Why was he anointed better than a majority decision from a panel?

My recollection was that the AFL wanted 1 person in the role so that there wouldn't be as much inconsistency in rulings.

Which has turned out to be an absolute * up as the guy is inconsistent from week to week.

 

[boncer34]

For the record I don't think Cameron should've been suspended but did the umpire contact even get a mention in the MRO statement? I couldn't see it. Happy to be proved wrong

 

[CrowToon]

I think it's actually hard for this guy. The matrix idea is bloody stupid and would back him into a bit of a corner. Throw in the legal s**t going on in the background and there would be pressure on him to be seen to be doing things about knocks to the head. The AFL want that image now no doubt.

Lastly, not sure a result getting overturned at the tribunal is necessarily him losing. It's a pretty standard feature of a fair and robust legal system that there be processes like this that can be deferred to to resolve them. I think that is a sign the system can work. It'd just be nice if it wasn't always so conveniently the players of big Victorian clubs that seemed to get the decision each time.