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How can the tackler impact where the player with the ball holds the ball???? Walters head fell on the ball because Walters put the ball there

True but no team is ever going to play a perfect game and a team shouldn't have to beat both opposition and umpires

Expected to open this thread and the names be John Ginnivan, Jill Ginnivan, Joe Ginnivan and James Ginnivan

Players can lie about their intentions...

He did not dive/jump at a loose ball and smash into an opponents head?

So is a player allowed to dive at a ball in mid air knowing they will smash into a head of the opposition?

If he was going for a speccy and adjusted his body while staring at a defenceless opponent and while coming down to land and knocked him out, yeah that should cop the same punishment

If they changed their body positioning on the way down looking directly at an opponent and smashed them in the head I'd think they would be suspended too

So someone can jump up attempting a mark/ruck contest and then when they come down have the freedom to bump someone in the head?

He chose to jump so it's up to him to not bump someone in the head and knock them out of the game, it's that simple

So him jumping in the air was the thing that knocked him out was it? Not because he turned his body and bumped him in the head on the way down?

Yes this has been raised on many occasions

Don't jump then if you can't stop yourself from knocking out an opponent

If he doesn't protect his body he doesn't put Brayshaw out of the game. It is within his duty of care to not bump Brayshaw in the head. Regardless of his intent that is what he has done and needs to go for at least 2 games like Brayshaw did and will (miss next week), but he should really get...

He shouldn't have turned his body then he wouldn't have knocked him out and then he wouldn't be up for a suspension. 3 weeks, his season is over

Theres nothing wrong with this suspension imo but the system is broken with intent. Thug acts like De Goey and Nank should get 5-6 weeks and acts like this 3 weeks

Long did duck into the tackle but yeah throwing him to the ground should have resulted in a couple of weeks. If Long got concussion from that he'd be facing 3 weeks too

There needs to be different gradings. A questionable tackle vs a clear head bump should be different punishments.

What time is this hearing?

Because they infringe s**t loads. They actually infringe more than the frees against they are copping. They could receive a few more frees though.

Yeah if Smith got concussed from that I reckon Pickett would have been looking at 5-6 game suspension. It's completely wrong to base the suspension length on the injury, rather than the action. How does De Gooey get the same suspension as Sicily? Seems like the action doesn't matter at all and...

Not sure what he could have done. I think everyone has to accept the fact that no matter what a player does on field these days, if they get unlucky with a head injury to an opponent, they could be suspended. It's purely down to luck, or lack of it.

So Hewett is out for basically 2 games from an illegal hit yet the perpetrator only gets suspended 1 game more?

I reckon it'll be 4. Pies will argue for 3, afl push for 5, meet halfway at 4

Victim blaming someone from being bumped in the head after they disposed of the ball legally, wow :rolleyes:

Does Hewett have any injury other than concussion?

He hit a guy in the head after he got rid of the ball and he was substituted out due to concussion, and maybe a fracture as well? There aren't really any worse things a player can do on the field other than maybe king hitting someone

They pretty much never assess as intentional, so it'll be reckless, high and severe -> straight to tribunal. They'll give him 4 weeks I reckon and if Hewett has an injury such as broken cheekbone he should get 4+whatever the injury length is

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