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[s_wd6]

Patrick Voss' ban has been upheld. He'll miss the next three matches.

Was always going to be upheld. They have lawyer present evidence for an hour and then choose to take none of it into account.

 

[Madas]

MRO

Pat Voss - nah uphold it , it’s Freo

Pat Cripps - nah downgrade it and give him a Brownlow while you’re at it

 

[bigpav]

FREMANTLE forward Patrick Voss has failed in his bid to overturn a three-match suspension that left Richmond defender [PLAYERCARD]Nick Vlastuin[/PLAYERCARD] bloodied during their clash on Sunday afternoon.

Vlastuin suffered a nasty cut on his nose and was sent from the field under the blood rule.

The incident was graded as careless conduct, severe impact and high contact by the Match Review Officer.

The 21-year-old Dockers tall will now miss games against Melbourne, Adelaide and St Kilda.

More to come


nasty cut on nose = 3 week suspension = AFL YOUR A F&^%'N JOKE

 

[MadMundy]

No point getting upset or angry over this, it was always going to happen, it is what it is. Out of our control now, club will move on and best Melbourne this week.

 

[Alfonz]

Entirely predictable that it would be an absolute joke of a hearing. Dude has a cut nose and will miss zero football, and they class it as severe impact.

It sounds like we raised severe impacts and that all of them had the victim missing football games. But did we bring up the incidents (like Houston's cheap shot) that were not graded severe? Probably pointless cause these hearings are a farce whenever Freo are involved.

 

[noise36]

Super predictable and not surprising, will be all the more frustrating when a similar incident gets a fine or is completely ignored because of who it is or the timing with finals.

 

[MadMundy]

At the end of the day we're irrelevant to most of the AFL and media, I'm pretty sure when they walked into the tribunal today they got told they'd be dealing with a Fremantle case and said

"Which team are they again? Doesn't sound Victorian."

 

[Cobbler]

No surprise. Thought they may get a slight discount when presenting evidence for point 6.

I feel like we rarely have substance at these things.

 

[Ge3ks]

Well fcuk.

 

[swanny1234]

Predictable. AFL hates us.

 

[Ge3ks]

No point getting upset or angry over this, it was always going to happen, it is what it is. Out of our control now, club will move on and best Melbourne this week.

Too soon. Let us be bitter and wallow in self pity a while longer before getting rational.

 

[Mr Cheese]

Yeah, odd this wasn't downgraded based purely on inconsistent use of "potential". If that's the yardstick, the guy who nearly took Brayshaws head off should've had 6 weeks. Houston should've been out for 4-5. Lobb should've had 4 (agree this one was a football action, but so's a clumsy tackle, potentially could've given Cox an orbital fracture). Was a one week ban based on what's gone before, three is because it looks like a punch. Disappointingly inevitable.

 

[Quay Club]

Oh well 3 weeks of goal kicking and mad celebration practice for the Big Galoot!

 

[Farrand]

I don't think we've ever won an appeal at the tribunal. Either our lawyers are shit, or there's a possibility the AFL doesn't like Freo.

 

[Snuffaluphagus]

2 weeks would have been the correct result IMO if the AFL didnt have it's head up it's arse. There's no logical basis on actual injury or history to say it should be graded severe.

 

[Farrand]

Really?

Guess "insults" from the noughties are back

 

[Mr Cheese]

I don't think we've ever won an appeal at the tribunal. Either our lawyers are shit, or there's a possibility the AFL doesn't like Freo.

 

[Dockernut]

I don't think we've ever won an appeal at the tribunal. Either our lawyers are shit, or there's a possibility the AFL doesn't like Freo.

Didn’t we win one challenging on behalf of Clam Hands?

 

[SiempreFreo]

I don't recall that their expertise won Us anything in last 7-8 years...

This. I am - pointlessly- enraged over yet another failed challenge. The AFL has all the power in this and Freo none. Extra galling that Brierty just like every administrator before him feels he has to be restrained and polite about a load of absolute bollocks from the Tribunal. When will it EVER be Freo’s turn??!!

 

[SiempreFreo]

Vlastuin was also over heard by the boundary umpire to state ‘He made me bleed my own blood’

The AFL added a week for that comment as some children were near the boundary and may have been influence to throw haymakers.

It’d be a pretty poor show if he was made to bleed someone’s else’s, surely? Not to mention a skill level our Vossy just might not have….

 

[SiempreFreo]

Too soon. Let us be bitter and wallow in self pity a while longer before getting rational.

Zackly

 

[FreoMonocle]

Methinks, that the only way to address the "Freo Tax" at the MRO, requires the club owner - WAFC to raise it's eyebrows.

 

[Taylor]

Severely injured player now means missing 2 minutes of football.

Players who miss a game will now be catastrophically injured.

Multiple games will be apocalyptically injured.

 

[Cesoir]

I suggest next time we challenge we get my cousin Vinnie in. He has the runs on the board.

 

[Lebes]

AFL so obtuse