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In the NRL, the NRL head of football elite competitions provides a public review each Monday of the weekend's controversial decisions. Here is an example Annesley analyses Verrills tackle on Sorensen Is this a good idea or bad idea for the AFL?

6 weeks....that's a lot more appropriate.

I thought the same thing....but the AFL is the only league in Australia that does not use that policy.

If you want to know the conspiracies, then head over to BigFooty GWS forum.. This is just a slice of the thinking: "When Brad Scott arrives in his new job, the first thing he will have to do is raze the entire MRO/Tribunal system. Toby will likely be remembered not for suspensions, but rather...

GWS indicated no appeal...which would probably rule our court action. But will the AFL appeal?

11.

I think it is 16 at non-elite levels. He has been suspended for eight already.

3 weeks or less he is luckiest guy in football. 4-6 weeks is medium. 6-9 weeks is heavy 10+ is proof of Toby Tax

Yep, that will be the one.

I share your response...referring to the Manning Kruger effect is proof positive that the Dunning Kruger effect exists.

OPENING ARGUMENTS BEGIN 9.26am: We are just establishing exactly what charge Greene can be judged on this morning. Ben Ihle QC is arguing that if Greene is not found guilty of 'intentional' contact with an umpire, he cannot be found guilty of intentional contact with an umpire that is...

Should Toby plead guilty?

Yes, camera angles and zoom vision can be so deceptive.....if only this controversy related to Jesse Hogan.

None of the players suspended in the last few years for making contact with an umpire....were reported by the umpire. This is not going to save Toby.

I can't imagine Stevic saying anything that will save Toby.

Good post. Bumped shoulders with plenty in a crowded footpath, occasionally taken space on the road that is probably not mine.... I've asked the umpire to clarify their decisions hundreds of times (and agree that Toby was not providing Stevic with unreasonably verbal abusive... agree that Toby's...

So would you agree Stevic has saved Toby's ass?

Yep...Toby "dropped the shoulder" as if the umpire was an opposing player..and that is both wrong and a really dumb thing to do.

22.2.2 (g).... behaving in an abusive, insulting, threatening or obscene manner towards or in relation to an Umpire; The rules says nothing about making contact. And then there is the godfather clause: 22.2.2 (cc) engaging in any other act of misconduct or serious misconduct.

What Stevic says will crucial.

You need to familiarise yourself with the rules. If Toby touched the umpire, he is in really big trouble...if he didn't, he is only in big trouble.

Not guilty of what...breaching 18.8.2 (b)?

But you can be charged under 18.8.2 (b). Some if you throw a punch at the umpire and the umpire ducks, you have not done anything wrong? If you rely on the umpire to evade contact, then you are skating on very thin ice.

Based on the conversations in the GWS forum, the defence will be that he never actually made contact with the umpire.