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You sure as hell can argue inconsistency by the MRO. No way that shove to the chest/face is worse than the glancing right fisted jab by Hewett.Can't argue that, dumb thing to do.
oh he's an absolute idiot. doesn't everyone know this? bless him thoughRed dog seems to never cop the criticism that others do from our supporter base but for me he is one of our most ill disciplined players.
When he is on he is great to watch but he was very poor yesterday, loses his man, makes poor decisions with ball in hand and gives a way stupid frees.
gonna be hard to beat this. the afl charged the rules on striking over the off-season, so the intentional charge is likely going to stick, so we're left with trying to get it thrown out on impact, which is pretty pretty tough. dunno how george hewett didn't get graded as intentional last week though.
oh he's an absolute idiot. doesn't everyone know this? bless him though
I think this is the new on ball off ball distinction.
Why any strike isn't intentional is beyond me but here we are.
Redman was stupid, cops a week. Won't learn from it assuredly.
The Sicily suspension id be furious with if I was the hawks.
Zak baileys done the same thing in front of an umpIn other words, the AFL will pick and choose whichever best suits them.
Likely top 4 sides = all clear
Likely outside the top 8 sides = make an example
He wasnāt wearing an Essendon jumper.What annoys me about this is that George Hewett last week received a fine for hitting Neale so what's the difference?
I still don't understand how they can determine someone's intent based on the effect.gonna be hard to beat this. the afl charged the rules on striking over the off-season, so the intentional charge is likely going to stick, so we're left with trying to get it thrown out on impact, which is pretty pretty tough. dunno how george hewett didn't get graded as intentional last week though.
oh he's an absolute idiot. doesn't everyone know this? bless him though
What confuses me is Nealeās charge was labelled as deliberate, Hewettās response was careless. How?I still don't understand how they can determine someone's intent based on the effect.
I still don't understand how they can determine someone's intent based on the effect.
What annoys me about this is that George Hewett last week received a fine for hitting Neale so what's the difference?
I think this is the new on ball off ball distinction.
Why any strike isn't intentional is beyond me but here we are.
āYouāve had a look at it and chosen to hand out a fine, which weāve been handing out for a long, long period of time for these incidents. Why was he not given a week?,ā Lyon posed on Fox Footyās On the Couch on Monday night.
Kane however claimed the rule change was largely introduced to stamp out strikes behind play, whereas the Neale-Hewett clash was near a stoppage.
āWe donāt like to see this and we donāt want this in the elite game. We donāt want it in community footy at all, hence why it was sanctioned through MRO,ā Kane told On the Couch.
āThe important shift weāve been talking about in the off-season is that pushing for space or the striking action off the ball ā not around the contest.
āThat rule change was focused on when youāre trying to get space say 20 or 30 metres off the ball and you cause in injury, we would grade it as intentional, which would trigger the week.
āAround the stoppage and contest, thereās a careless nature to the contest thatās right in front of them.ā
To try to push a guy away who is rushing you again after just hitting you?Just a dumb thing to do when they said they were cracking down on it over the off season. Sicily's suspension seems harsher.
the behind the play/in play justification was laughable.Throwing these together coz I looked up why Hewett got off
it's best to think of careless/intentional from the POV of "did they intend to commit a reportable action?". The easy example is a bump. Almost every bump is graded as careless, because it's legal to lay a bump. It's just if you stuff up and hit the head, you're in trouble. the exception is if the bump is off the ball, when bumps aren't legal, which led to Nathan Brown getting an intentional charge in 2018, because there was no doubt he intended to bump Saad, and it was an illegal action. I saw some people say Jimmy Webster should have been graded intentional, but it was perfectly legal for him to bump the player, but he had plenty of force behind him and got the head. I don't see a way to have Webster's bump to be a possible intentional act without it actually possibly banning the bump forever.
Anyway, it seems like what the AFL is trying to do with this new striking interpretation is to have a little bit of that "off the ball" dynamic apply. the ball had gone out of play way down the field when Redman/Newcombe got into it. when Hewett/Neale got into it, they were jostling around the ball-up contest that was about to start. and that difference is basically why Hewett didn't get intentional grading. (btw I do wonder if Redman may have been graded insufficient force if it was only one handed)
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āThatās semantics, surely?ā Great challenges AFL boss over strike verdict amid rule change hint
āThatās semantics, surely?ā Great confronts AFL boss over strike verdict amid rule change hintwww.foxsports.com.au
However, to Mercurial89's point, Hewett's action was just a ****ing punch! I don't see what it's got to do with the new interpretations at all. It's a punch and since punches are always illegal, it should have been intentional, just like Neale's gut punch 2 seconds later was graded intentional. Absolutely bemusing.
Sicily got done for the kick, right? I'm ok with that, there's no reason for kicks. But I feel like plenty of times Sicily would have been let off for insufficient force.