AFL Player # 9: Dylan Shiel

[Beerfish]

Contract Status: Out of contract 2024 2025
My Boy Draft 2024: Pick 35, eth-dog

 

[blitzer]

Oh well seeing as our 2nd game is against Adelaide anyway, best to just let it go.

 

[citizen-erased]

How’s the jury used the ‘ but taylor could’ve been seriously injured’, well why don’t they judge all other bumps like that.

So Merrett gets a week cos a fist to the ribs caused damage, but the other 100 times it happens in the season earn zero scrutiny
Shiel bump does no damage, but could have so 2 weeks.

Why don't they just come out and say "we're giving you two weeks cos we feel like it" and leave it at that.

 

[Dave]

How’s the jury used the ‘ but taylor could’ve been seriously injured’, well why don’t they judge all other bumps like that.

They're a jury of ex players, not rocket surgeons.

 

[Highly Evolved]

Now more than ever, welcome to Essendon Mr. Shiel.

 

[TheGrizz]

Farce simple as that, the quality of their excuses for the ban standing are so low and wouldn’t hold up at a real court at all.

Good thing its not a court at all then, its a tribunal with a completely different process and evidentiary standard which makes the comparison irrelevant.

That aside (and not necessarily in response to the quoted comment) its perplexing that the potential to cause injury was used for Shiel and not Rohan and Pickett when they got fined, but more importantly Ebert who got a week. Though the fact the players the former two hit got straight back up likely played in their favour. In the reverse, is what Ben Long did to Darcy only one week worse than Shiel? That doesnt quite gel with me.

Taylor did have to go off for a concussion test, and had to get an scan on his cheek. They wouldnt have done that if he wasnt in pain or the hit didnt have a decent amount of force.

If i had seen only the Shiel hit in a vaccuum, i would have copped two weeks pretty happily, personally. It is a dangerous action when you go past the ball for a bump. It just feels jarring in context of the aforementioned above incidents.

 

[quotemokc]

Can we appeal?

 

[AJ_2000]

Utter garbage that this is the case the AFL want to die in a ditch for.

Case prior - Smash a guy's head in with concussion - 3 weeks. All other cases judged on outcome of impact, and players chargers downgraded based on technicality.

Here there is no fracture and no concussion, opponents going to play yet it's still high. Even with our previous tribunal shafting, I expected this to be down graded to medium.

 

[citizen-erased]

Good thing its not a court at all then, its a tribunal with a completely different process and evidentiary standard which makes the comparison irrelevant.

That aside (and not necessarily in response to the quoted comment) its perplexing that the potential to cause injury was used for Shiel and not Rohan and Pickett when they got fined, but more importantly Ebert who got a week. Though the fact the players the former two hit got straight back up likely played in their favour. In the reverse, is what Ben Long did to Darcy only one week worse than Shiel? That doesnt quite gel with me.

Taylor did have to go off for a concussion test, and had to get an scan on his cheek. They wouldnt have done that if he wasnt in pain or the hit didnt have a decent amount of force.

If i had seen only the Shiel hit in a vaccuum, i would have copped two weeks pretty happily, personally. It is a dangerous action when you go past the ball for a bump. It just feels jarring in context of the aforementioned above incidents.

they sent him back on 90s after taking him off.

 

[Seb78]

Fully expected it to be reduced to one.

Yeh me too, happy to cop the 1 but 2 weeks is harsh imo.

 

[Hamez]

I thought you had to be off for 20 minutes with a concussion test?

 

[Bunk Moreland]

It’s actually hilarious this happened to Shiel after the 2017 prelim. Just amazing.

 

[HirdyLannister]

$10 we hand Adelaide their first win.

 

[Donakebab]

Laid the good bloke schtick on pretty heavily.

 

[fairbump_playon]

Just adding to the chorus of jeers

This is a rugby league style decision. Where logic doesn’t apply in any way and you have to assume that the ex players making the decisions have mushy brains from all the head bashing.

Curtis Taylor ironically won’t qualify to work on the tribunal after he retires given he wasn’t concussed.

 

[Dave]

Jury back......

 

[conVINCEd]

Bloody ridiculous decision. Absolutely should’ve been reduced to one, as Ebert received.

 

[JayJ20]

Fails. 2 weeks stands. **** off AFL.

 

[jmoo wan]

absolute bullshit. I blame Paul Brasher, personally - failed his first test as President in Waiting.

#SackBrashes

 

[Ambrosia]

Wouldn’t mind appealing

 

[SherbertLemon]

It’s not the inconsistency that annoys me the most.

It’s the fact that they take the outcome of the bump as a genuine consideration of the verdict.

In what world does that make sense?

You could accidentally clip a blokes chin as you’re going for the ball and it could rip out of the socket and go flying through the goal posts.

Or you could run off the field and collect a chain saw and proceed to hack at a bloke but only manage to cut off his shitty mullet.

The action.
It’s the only thing that matters.
Christ.

 

[pepsi]

I like how we get punished continually for standing up to the AFL a few years back.

Can we appeal this decision?

 

[justlookingaround]

Absolute dogshit

 

[VelvetSledge]

Hahahahaha.

hahahahaha hahahahahahahahahaha

 

[justlookingaround]

$10 we hand Adelaide their first win.

Definitely possible - their first game back at AO and you’d imagine our training there would be limited in the build up

 

[WindyHillZephyr]

I think its a good thing we took it to tribunal. It shows a willingness by the club to fight on all fronts. It also adds to the karma dataset which hopefully will be righted.