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

 

[Seb78]

 

[quotemokc]

This is basically the exact same thing as what happened with Wright. Difference is he didn't take a mark.

If he marks the ball then this isn't up for discussion.

Docker KO’d in brutal marking incident

Fremantle suffers a worrying injury concern as Karl Worner leaves the field on a stretcher following this brave contest

www.afl.com.au

 

[P Money]

Wright's has gone straight to the tribunal which means we need to say... something.

Redman was offered a week, to go to the tribunal you would have to think you can downgrade one of the below



Pretty hard to argue he didn't intend to hit Newcombe, or that he didn't hit him high IMO. So you're at trying to downgrade low impact from low to... low. As soon as it's high and intentional it's at least a week.

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Unless you're Heeney?

 

[Blind Turn]

Does it make any difference to his defence that the ball was kicked by an Essendon player? If the ball wasn’t meant for Wright (ie kicked by a Swans player) then he is encroaching on Cunningham’s space. But because the pass was meant for him then Cunningham is encroaching on Wrigt’s space.

Perhaps, down the track, any right-of-way law would take into account the intended target. If you connect with an intended target front-on, regardless of whether or not you have eyes for the ball, it’s a free kick to the targeted player. The idea would be that, as in Wright’s situation, Cunningham would be more inclined to visualise the intended target before going for the ball and thus halt his foray into the path of Wright.

 

[owen87]

Unless you're Heeney?

Really Hind is lucky he didn't get suspended for impeding Heeney's hand. What if Heeney had broken his hand? Zerk-Thatcher let his face break Heeney's hand once before didn't he? Bad Essendon.

 

[Nuggs Bunny]

Let's just hope the tribunal makes the wright decision

 

[Cold Sober]

Thought Drapers was more dangerous than 2mp's.

 

[MiguelM]

Carey backing Wright!
‘I’m done’: Wayne Carey calls AFL ‘weak as piss’, will never watch footy again

Clickbait headline, Carey actually says he won't watch footy on the weeks Wright misses through any suspension, lol.

 

[fairbump_playon]

Watched a lot of vision and opinions this morning

Since Saturday I have had a niggling question regarding what responsibility Cunningham should hold for putting himself in harm's way.

IMO if you give that player going back (or the one coming forward for that matter) right of way, the game is much worse for it.

It takes a lot of courage to go back. I reckon in bracing for contact, Wright showed less courage. I reckon even after realising someone is coming into his lane, he could have (and should have) still gone for and probably taken the chest mark. I actually don't reckon he would have been hurt - but he might have. That's part of the tough game of AFL.

Cunningham knows he could be hurt and still puts his body on the line. If Wright had done that too there is no case to answer.

Usually people get weeks because they chose to be overly aggressive. I reckon we will see Wright suspended because he chose to pull out of a marking contest.

I feel ok that the game should say - as long as everyone is playing the ball in a marking contest, we will accept the injuries. And protecting yourself while marking is not an excuse. And that means a few weeks for Wright.

 

[Blind Turn]

Watched a lot of vision and opinions this morning

Since Saturday I have had a niggling question regarding what responsibility Cunningham should hold for putting himself in harm's way.

IMO if you give that player going back (or the one coming forward for that matter) right of way, the game is much worse for it.

It takes a lot of courage to go back. I reckon in bracing for contact, Wright showed less courage. I reckon even after realising someone is coming into his lane, he could have (and should have) still gone for and probably taken the chest mark. I actually don't reckon he would have been hurt - but he might have. That's part of the tough game of AFL.

Cunningham knows he could be hurt and still puts his body on the line. If Wright had done that too there is no case to answer.

Usually people get weeks because they chose to be overly aggressive. I reckon we will see Wright suspended because he chose to pull out of a marking contest.

I feel ok that the game should say - as long as everyone is playing the ball in a marking contest, we will accept the injuries. And protecting yourself while marking is not an excuse. And that means a few weeks for Wright.

That’s all and good but the issue is CTE and those going with the flight are the ones risking damage. If they want to prevent it they need to dissuade the kamikaze stuff and not nab the bloke who is leading up to the ball and seeing all the potential damage unfolding just as he goes for the mark.

 

[brain taylor]

People think Eddie is a buffoon but he is actually one of the smartest operators the game has seen. People are blinded by his love of Collingwood but when you listen to his take(s), they do make sense and this one will be an interesting listen if you’ve got a link?

he’s a very underrated commentator too when he’s not watching collingwood, (btw remember PRESS RED FOR ED lol), he gets excited about the footy but remembers he’s supposed to be clearly and articulately calling the action.

 

[ant555]

Maybe he can spend the next four weeks standing on a fit ball to improve his core strength while the fire footballs at him

 

[citizen-erased]

Maybe he can spend the next four weeks standing on a fit ball to improve his core strength while the fire footballs at him

2 weeks

 

[fairbump_playon]

pled guilty

 

[Shanghaistu]

When can they put us out of our misery and let us know the penalty?

 

[Red Black and Blue]

When was the last time we challenged the tribunal? Time to get a new strategy and test our luck at the lottery.

 

[Zach Package]

pled guilty

In a world where you only get away with what you think you can get away with, we’d rather be the lone cow that willingly jumps onto the table at the slaughterhouse.

 

[andleanback]

Why do we always get this ihle bloke, he’s a f’ing idiot.

Why are we not standing up for wright and fighting it

 

[Inspecta Gadget]

Death, taxes, and Essendon rolling over and presenting for the tribunal

 

[Howard Moon]

Ihle (Bombers) says it's because of Wright's turn that there's front-on, body-to-body contact, rather than shoulder-to-head contact.

That's more like it, he saved his life with that evasive action...

 

[citizen-erased]

When was the last time we challenged the tribunal? Time to get a new strategy and test our luck at the lottery.

Shiel's bump a few years back.

 

[Call Me Cake]

I guess our defence is pathetic on the field and in the court

 

[Blind Turn]

They knew they were powerless

 

[Call Me Cake]

This is where the world's heading. It's not about specific situations but how you can be a sacrificial lamb for an agenda. Sad state of affairs.

 

[Seb78]

When was the last time we challenged the tribunal? Time to get a new strategy and test our luck at the lottery.

Brad Scott still wearing his AFL hat