AFL Player #20: Peter "Litre" Wright 🏅 - Pleads guilty at tribunal, 4 week suspension - 26/3

[Lore]

Contract Status: Free Agent (?) 2027
My Boy Draft 2024: Pick 21, TheGrizz

 

[Schnitzengruben]

Did well to compete after that incident when he could've easily lowered his head and done nothing for the rest of the game.

 

[Old Campaigner]

right in the moosh

 

[Mootsy]

Did well to compete after that incident when he could've easily lowered his head and done nothing for the rest of the game.

Hopefully he realised, ultimately, it’s just a game, and rare, awkward stuff like this can occur, y’know, and essentially it is just a game, where people kick a ball around and hopefully through those big sticks, but there is more to life. He’ll come back refreshed and the better man for it.

 

[citizen-erased]

Im claiming in the contest and a fine please

 

[JT_the_Man]

Surely gets off, was just going for a mark.

 

[TheUnicorn]

Who the * knows what’s gonna happen when it comes to the tribunal/MRO. Could be a fine, could be 20 weeks.

 

[eth-dog]

Who the * knows what’s gonna happen when it comes to the tribunal/MRO. Could be a fine, could be 20 weeks.

It'll be 3 or 4.

 

[MiguelM]

It'll be 3 or 4.

Yep, feel the same.

Bracing for contact is risky these days. At least he didn't lift the elbow.

 

[nylexbandit]

Yep, feel the same.

Bracing for contact is risky these days. At least he didn't lift the elbow.

Feels like that’s the answer but also feels ridiculous. Almost asking for him to get injured instead

 

[yodellinhank]

Football act. Play on.

 

[MiguelM]

Feels like that’s the answer but also feels ridiculous. Almost asking for him to get injured instead

Agreed, but it is sort of where we are at. Had he put his arms up to the ball he may have no case to answer but might be out for weeks with a broken rib. A very fine line.

 

[Bunk Moreland]

These days your only option in situations like that is to get low and not hit the head. Pretty hard when you’re 7 feet tall.

He’s gone.

 

[Seb78]

He'll get 3-4 weeks I reckon. If he had a Carlton jumper on however then 0 weeks, and they would've given Cunningham 2 weeks for getting in his way.

Anyone got P Cripps' lawyers number??

 

[fairbump_playon]

Agreed, but it is sort of where we are at. Had he put his arms up to the ball he may have no case to answer but might be out for weeks with a broken rib. A very fine line.

This is the argument to make (because it’s true) - basically asking for leniency. He will still get weeks.

I’m glad we don’t blame the victim in ones like this as it would ruin the game.

Having said that, the injury is clearly mainly the fault of the guy who jumps backwards & sideways into the path of a 100kg + unit who is sprinting at the footy

Wright turned and will get weeks. But if he went the footy the contact would have been elbows and knees and the same injury or worse

 

[Howard Moon]

Plugger made a career on owning that space at the scg that's, why he always had leading room at the scg, my initial feeling was pride that 2mp had owned his leading corridor and he'd finally made a physical statement, then the commentary kicked in and ruined it! ...and those nuffy Sydney fans who cried a river when their triple Brownlow medalist was booed a bit sure have a good booing voice when they want it, was like a punch and Judy play
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[jdstorm]

Plugger made a career on owning that space at the scg that's, why he always had leading room at the scg, my initial feeling was pride that 2mp had owned his leading corridor and he'd finally made a physical statement, then the commentary kicked in and ruined it! ...and those nuffy Sydney fans who cried a river when their triple Brownlow medalist was booed a bit sure have a good booing voice when they want it, was like a punch and Judy play
.

Goodes being racially vilified is very different to normal people booing football acts

 

[ant555]

Suspension aside I have some concerns on his form. He is nowhere near 2022 Peter Wright level.

 

[TheGrizz]

I don't really know what else he could've done. I feel like he needed to protect himself in this situation as Cunningham was coming in on an angle.

Not turn his shoulder into the oncoming Cunningham?

If he had put his hands out to mark it, or kept his body square and his arms low for a chest mark, he is probably able to argue he was legitimately contesting the ball.

Whether he did it in self defence or not, his duty of care meant the one thing he couldnt do was forsake the ball and turn his shoulder into Cunninghams head.

 

[andleanback]

It'll be 3 or 4.

He has eyes on the ball still as he leaves the ground, I reckon it’ll go straight to the tribunal and he’ll have a very good case to get off. Lynch was offered 3/4 weeks last year in a very similar incident and got off.

 

[andleanback]

Not turn his shoulder into the oncoming Cunningham?

If he had put his hands out to mark it, or kept his body square and his arms low for a chest mark, he is probably able to argue he was legitimately contesting the ball.

Whether he did it in self defence or not, his duty of care meant the one thing he couldnt do was forsake the ball and turn his shoulder into Cunninghams head.

You’ve also good a duty of care to yourself. You can’t expect players to change their duty of care within milliseconds, he didn’t know Cunningham was going to be there until he was already at full speed and off the ground.

 

[Howard Moon]

You’ve also good a duty of care to yourself. You can’t expect players to change their duty of care within milliseconds, he didn’t know Cunningham was going to be there until he was already at full speed and off the ground.

Don't you know the new rules of AFL? If you get there first everyone else has to stop and let you have it

 

[MiguelM]

Suspension aside I have some concerns on his form. He is nowhere near 2022 Peter Wright level.

All our marking forwards need to work better. 19-9 inside 50 marks in their favor.

 

[Bunk Moreland]

You’ve also good a duty of care to yourself. You can’t expect players to change their duty of care within milliseconds, he didn’t know Cunningham was going to be there until he was already at full speed and off the ground.

Best not to try to apply football logic to these things

 

[jdstorm]

All our marking forwards need to work better. 19-9 inside 50 marks in their favor.

That’s more a product of the entries then just forward play

 

[Snake Charmer]

Didn’t attempt to mark.. book a flight to Bali