Player Watch #31: Bayley ‘Slick’ Fritsch

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Jan 4, 2002
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basically petracca shoved the north guy which rammed him head first, unbalanced and unprotected in fritsches path, no one can be sure but if fritsch didnt lift his arm as a bumper bar there may have been an ugly head clash. jack revolt could easily have got a week for shoving an opponent into aarts on friday and hawkins shove blokes into on coming traffic all the time....afl needs to clamp down as its a dangerous tactic, im glad fritsch got off.
 

jhong

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Apr 18, 2011
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basically petracca shoved the north guy which rammed him head first, unbalanced and unprotected in fritsches path, no one can be sure but if fritsch didnt lift his arm as a bumper bar there may have been an ugly head clash. jack revolt could easily have got a week for shoving an opponent into aarts on friday and hawkins shove blokes into on coming traffic all the time....afl needs to clamp down as its a dangerous tactic, im glad fritsch got off.

How this bloke got off is mind boggling . Any way given the bloke Fritsch got came back on and played may have helped in overturning the ban . Feel for the umps , what used to be clear rules are now open to far too many variable interpretations .
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Apr 12, 2014
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basically petracca shoved the north guy which rammed him head first, unbalanced and unprotected in fritsches path, no one can be sure but if fritsch didnt lift his arm as a bumper bar there may have been an ugly head clash. jack revolt could easily have got a week for shoving an opponent into aarts on friday and hawkins shove blokes into on coming traffic all the time....afl needs to clamp down as its a dangerous tactic, im glad fritsch got off.

Agree, I hate the shoving players into oncoming traffic. Hawkins does it every week.
 
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