I agree with your points, and the McGovern punch would not have been punished at kindergarten. But it's a yin and yang with McGovern, deserved a week for the push into the fence.
Consistency !!!!, pink pigs'll fly past sooner.
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I agree with your points, and the McGovern punch would not have been punished at kindergarten. But it's a yin and yang with McGovern, deserved a week for the push into the fence.
Consistency !!!!, pink pigs'll fly past sooner.
Hawkins would’ve been suspended for what McGovern did.
Ablett did get suspended 1st time but appealed like McGovern is.
Seems you like to make stuff up.
Most ‘fans‘ don’t know what they are talking about and suffer from tall poppy syndrome.
Ablett was suspended the 1st time, that’s not being looked after. You agree with that? He appealed and got off with a good record. Fair? Yes.
The 2nd time Christian let that influence him so he got off. Same type of incident. Christian has proved a week ago he doesn’t try to look after him.
The 3rd incident he got a suspension.
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Not bothered he got off one bit. There has been far greater miscarriages of justice at the Tribunal/MRP over the years. I suspect it was one of those incidents that looked a lot worse on Camera than what it actually was.
Time to move on folks..
Time to move on folks..
Nope.
Dangerfield just has a rock hard head. Watch the vision, his head was hammered into the turf. Most other players would've been knocked out cold. And then he would've got weeks.
Which takes it back to stupidly resulting from injury result and not the action.
And Jordan Lewis is someone to be trusted, who played the game fairly and absolutely would not have a compromised, biased opinion on the matter being a former Melbourne legend.
Can you let us know what Shaun Burgoyne's wife thinks about it? If she thinks it was fair and well executed as well then we can pretty much close this thread. Debate is futile in the face of conclusive supporting evidence.
Except it was a compromised outcome. To grade that 'low impact' is to grade it based on achieving a preferential outcome not reality. Similar, less severe sling tackles have in the past copped suspensions so what happened on this occasion? Well done Michael Christian. Competent as always.
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Hang on what?
Next week its a suspension?
Exactly Hocking was asked and said yes ffs.
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Jeezus
The rule had to change. You can’t have this as a precedent as it is actually dangerous.
Cat player or not next one to sling with that type of force has to go.
I would’ve suspended Burgoyne even under the rules. You can manipulate and twist the wording of the ‘rules’
Potential to cause injury or medium impact, or intentional, whatever is needed to get a suspension.
The fine doesn’t pass the pub test. If he appealed and got off so be it.
Cat player or not next one to sling with that type of force has to go.
I would’ve suspended Burgoyne even under the rules. You can manipulate and twist the wording of the ‘rules’
Potential to cause injury or medium impact, or intentional, whatever is needed to get a suspension.
The fine doesn’t pass the pub test. If he appealed and got off so be it.
AFL are taking the p1ss. Its club house leader for the best/worst sling tackle in the last few seasons.
As usual they spin it and raise their hands instead of charging him with reckless conduct.
Some irony too its against Geelong given some of the iffy charges they've copped.
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Amateur hour again at AFL House. Pretending to change the wording to make up for the complete failure of the MRP. You would be pretty pissed if you got done for the same thing next week. Hard to take this league seriously sometimes.
This is brazen, even for the AFL.
I knew they would figure a way to let him
Play.... but this was next level BS
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A good way of estimating a fair penalty is to imagine what a Geelong player would get for the same thing and then halve it.
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Step up Mr Hawkins, it’s Time for another one of your famous brain explosions. Sling tackle coming right up.
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