2nds 2016 Adelaide Crows SANFL season

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Sumner pleaded guilty and received 3 matches.

Otten was charged with making "intentional contact with an umpire". He has pleaded not guilty and is currently giving evidence. Now I think it can be argued strongly that it wasn't intentional contact with an umpire considering the circumstances.
3 matches is a light suspension.

Waiting for Otten to receive 18 weeks now
 

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Sumner pleaded guilty and received 3 matches.

Otten was charged with making "intentional contact with an umpire". He has pleaded not guilty and is currently giving evidence. Now I think it can be argued strongly that it wasn't intentional contact with an umpire considering the circumstances.
it should be because you can see in the video he moved to the left to go past the umpire and the umpire moved in the same direction to stop him getting past, so otten moved to the right and the umpire followed to stay in his path. when the umpire is trying to stay in his path and refusing to get out, he needs to lose a little bit of his protection.
 

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I really feel for Andy Otten in relation to his career. Injury has really crueled what should have been a long career
So true.

He could have been a big bodied mid but post injury lost a massive amount of athleticism/pace (not that he was quick but now he's slow).
 

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Umpire contact is always going to get weeks. He got lucky, he was trying to get at Sumner when contact occurred. That could be argued as a factor for more weeks. Being concussed at the time may have saved him.
The guy was removed from the field for failing a concussion test.

The SANFL must be the last bastion of people who don't take this stuff seriously.

I'd appeal and get the best concussion experts in and make the SANFL explain it's position.
 

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The guy was removed from the field for failing a concussion test.

The SANFL must be the last bastion of people who don't take this stuff seriously.

I'd appeal and get the best concussion experts in and make the SANFL explain it's position.
It won't help. Umpire contact ALWAYS gets weeks. They will not set a precedent. Umpire contact is pretty much strict liability.
 
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It won't help. Umpire contact ALWAYS gets weeks. They will not set a precedent. Umpire contact is pretty much strict liability.
In any appeal could his team argue that the SANFL already have set the precedent with a very soft penalty considering the serious nature of the original charge?
 
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