EVERY AFL player should go on strike if Steve Johnson is suspended

[earthquake]

Steve Johnson has been offered 2 weeeks for a " hip and shoulder " bump on Hanley .
Hanley was injured AFTER his head hit the ground NOT before.
It could be your player in your side being rubbed out for NOTHING .
In all fairness the players should strike if Johnson is suspended for doing NOTHING wrong.
The MRP and the AFL commission have LOST the plot re the rules of the game and how it is supposed to be played.

http://www.afl.com.au/video/2013-06-23/hanley-cops-big-hit

look at the views at about 12 sec and the 20 sec time .

 

[hellboy1975]

Easily worth 2 under the current rules. If he had a better record it'd be just one.

 

[Honeyboy Wilson]

Made contact to the head with a bump when he could have tackled.

Easiest decision for the MRP this year.

 

[Hipster Doofus]

Vision of the bump?
He's had a questionable record he he not?

 

[MinerBoy]

Haven't seen it but willing to accept the MRP decision here.

 

[frizzle]

Easily worth 2 under the current rules. If he had a better record it'd be just one.

The OP is correct & the current rules are ruining our game. That bump wasn't even worth a free kick let alone a suspension.
Hodge's 2 incidents were looked at last week & he got off & rightly so. The same sense should have been applied here but unfortunately the whole MRP situation is a raffle from one week to another. It needs to be overhauled big time for next year.

 

[TigermanM2]

Lined him up and hit him in the head and did the damage before he hit the ground.

 

[longsuffreosupp]

Haven't seen it but willing to accept the MRP decision here.

One week will do

 

[Theo X]

They're not going to give up match payments for the sake of Stevie J

 

[TEDDY24INC]

Made contact to the head with a bump when he could have tackled.

Easiest decision for the MRP this year.

Um where in the footage is there definate head contact? If there is head contact then it is from johnsons back on the follow through not from johnsons shoulder which hits hanleys shoulder... Even so incidental head contact is deemed ok under the rules and has got the likes of hodge, jolly and l thomas off... Obsurd decision, they have guessed off the available footage

 

[Andrew Mc]

Probably the most straight forward decision they'll make all year. Shoulder to the head, which rocked back immediately. Sure he may have done some more damage when he hit the ground, but the cause was the original hit.

 

[MinerBoy]

One week will do

Based on my non viewage of the incident, I can't see how he could possibly get less than 2.

 

[Honeyboy Wilson]

Um where in the footage is there definate head contact? If there is head contact then it is from johnsons back on the follow through not from johnsons shoulder which hits hanleys shoulder... Even so incidental head contact is deemed ok under the rules and has got the likes of hodge, jolly and l thomas off... Obsurd decision, they have guessed off the available footage

That's not what got Hodge off - Hodge got off because he was trying to avoid contact with his own player.

Thomas got off because it was a head clash.

Your argument would set a dangerous precedent that it's okay to make head contact as long as it's on the follow through and not with the initial shoulder. We've been told for years now if a player risks a bump and makes head contact, they're in strife.

Both of Ziebell's suspensions were far worse than this one. Hanley had the ball. Stevie J wasn't trying to win the ball. He could have tackled him. He made contact to Hanley's head. Two weeks.

 

[earthquake]

i just posted the video and there is NO contact with Hanleys head only his head hitting the ground . Johnsons shoulder MISSED Hanleys head , chin , face etc etc but not his shoulder.

http://www.afl.com.au/video/2013-06-23/hanley-cops-big-hit

check the 12 sec and 20 sec time on the video ... do it frame by frame.

 

[IanW]

Here is the tape.

http://www.afl.com.au/video/2013-06-23/hanley-cops-big-hit

Stop it at twelve seconds, and see how Stevie J is on his right toe, with the left foot completely going up ... he is rising with the shot, rather than Karmichael Hunt-style blocking down.

Hanley isnt particularly ducking, amd doesnt really have a knee bend, so stopping the tape again at 12s, you can see how Stevie J rising up has put Hanley's head at his shoulder height.

He's goneski, and rightly so - if you are going to do a shoulder charge, or a hip and shoulder, keep your weight down.

 

[TEDDY24INC]

Probably the most straight forward decision they'll make all year. Shoulder to the head, which rocked back immediately. Sure he may have done some more damage when he hit the ground, but the cause was the original hit.

See my post above... If sj hit him in the head with his shoulder hanley would have been stretchered off, knocked out, the pace johnson was travelling into the contest gaurantees this... Regardless read the l thomas verdict, if head contact is made it is via johnnos back on follow through not the shoulder, therefore it can be deemed `unforseen circumstances` as johnson remained low whilst bumping

 

[raskolnikov]

Yeah, nah. A lot less obvious ones than that have resulted in suspension.

 

[hellboy1975]

Not sure what footage you guys are looking at but the second camera angle shows pretty clear contact to the head to me. No doubt in my mind under the current rules it's a reportable offence.

Point taken regarding consistency though and the general enforcement of the rules.

 

[JackFlash]

I'm beginning to wonder if Geelong are the dumbest team in the competition? They just never learn. I'll state it here and now, the era is over!

 

[stormee]

Nah mate.

 

[kriso182]

Looks pretty clear that he hit the head to me. Soon as I saw the replay after the incident I thought two weeks. Went the bump and got the head unfortunately.

 

[PP34]

In ten years time you'll be rubbed out for tackling someone and injuring their knee.

 

[cancat]

The umpires should go on strike too. The field umpire correctly ruled it a fair bump and didn't give a free kick. As earthquake says, it was shoulder to shoulder and Hanley hit his head on the ground.

If the AFL want to 'protect the head' to this extent they also need to ban tackles and speccies.

 

[yakka man]

sorry but f.uck him. the bump is dead. how many have already gone before him?

head contact = gone

change the rule next year? sure. but player strike is LOL-worthy

Exactly. The same rules applies to everyone and a lot of teams have been screwed by the MRP this year. The game is getting soft and they should sack everyone involved with the MRP but Stevie J got what he deserved.

 

[ImperialPurple]

Silly that that is 2 weeks, while Embley's "double knees in the chest followed by a hand to the face smacking opponent's head into the ground" is just 1 week. Of course, I am waiting for the 'typical Freo fan' response to this, but from where I sit on my couch (), Embley's was worse than SJ's.