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Nobody would deliberately clash heads so that is always considered accidental.

You can just say, referring to my article this morning, Damian.

It's a fair point. (Ignore the team I support)

Any other player, in any other week would have been cited

If he did that and there was an accidental head knock, he would be free to play for sure.

Fair point, and you are right Brayshaw probably turns into it a little bit, but how is Brayshaw meant to know exactly what Maynard is going to do in that moment? Brayshaw really just takes the one step, has eyes on Maynard and he braces kind of upwards looking more so with his right arm as the...

Brayshaw had just kicked it though, like he was in possession of the ball only a millisecond earlier, it's not as if it's two players running for a ball in dispute and both having a duty of care to their opposition. Brayshaw was infringed upon. The Selwood duck into a tackle to draw a free was...

I don't think that's really relevant when you look at whether an action was reasonable or unreasonable. The view in most cases should be that players are legitimately contesting the ball without intentionally trying to injure their opposition, however the specific action that took place this...

The current interpretations are that if you bump, you wear the consequences, and sometimes you get done for something that had "the potential to cause injury". When a player mis-times something and have left the ground, it speaks to the duty of care they have to the opposition player. The ball...

Agreed, also I don't think it's 'victim blaming' to say that a player needs to protect themselves and not put them in situations where they are very likely to be cleaned up.

The eyes only for the ball type defence is an interesting one. On the surface it makes sense like "He only had eyes for the ball, a collision was accidental and unavoidable" but if you put a duty of care onto Lynch to be that you can't just have eyes only for the ball, you need to be aware of...

In terms of alternative, it depends on whether you think he was in a position where he would be capable to affect the contest. If he runs in from the front looking up (no awareness of Lynch and the other player) then gets cleaned up, does that affect whether Lynch has a case to argue? The...

Interesting to see other's views on this as well as the tribunals findings. It looks to be a legitimate marking contest with Keath running back with the flight and minimal awareness of Lynch. Lynch seems to have only eyes for the ball and braces at the last moment. If there is a duty of...