Hawkins off the ball hit, weeks or finals discount?

[manicmagpie]

This really should be the quickest tribunal hearing of all time.

{Footage of incident is shown}

Tribunal member: "What were you thinking? You're lucky to only be getting a week, aren't you?"

Hawkins: "Yes, sir."

Tribunal member: "One week it is."

End of case.

 

[Heisenberg_]

From the feed now

"Hawkins says he has known Schofield since school and says he is friends with him outside of footy "

He knows he's completely f****d.

That’s like the old, I’m not racist I’ve got black friends, however...

Such a poor argument

 

[spudmaster]

Ihle says Hawkins was returning on the trajectory he was running on, having wrenched his arm free. He says that motion is what caused the strike.

 

[Snarls Barkley]

Can't believe they're even bothering with the appeal. Only question was whether it would be graded medium impact or low.

Waste of time for everybody. No chance he gets off

 

[Strapping Young Lad]

He has a history of hitting people with insufficient force in finals, to be fair.

 

[TheGhostOfJohnBelushi]

Deserved 2 to be honest but really enjoying the Eagles, Hawks and Tigers melts in here.

I've been enjoying the Cats fans melts, tbh. Been great reading. FWIW I hope Hawkins gets off, purely to make the prelim somewhat interesting. I fear the Tigers are gonna walk it in.

 

[hawkman]

I love how no-one is commenting on illegal holds here, that should be paid as free kicks before the fact.

Evidence of these holds apart from Hawkins word?

 

[Renuo]

That’s like the old, I’m not racist I’ve got black friends, however...

Such a poor argument

Yeah.. cmon now.. it's nothing close to that at all.

 

[Shadow89]

Evidence of these holds apart from Hawkins word?

Watch the whole game, lol. If there's behind the goals vision supplied, maybe we'll see that

 

[nameless]

No way Schofield puts in a dodgy medical report.
He famously tweeted about the 'players code', he would have helped out as much as possible you'd think.

I don't like his argument, but be nice to see him get off, make for a better game next week.

 

[nameless]

Watch the whole game, lol. If there's behind the goals vision supplied, maybe we'll see that

Perhaps they'll see all the holding the fwds were doing to McGovern/Shep/Hurn/Barrass all night as well.
Please find those videos.

 

[BF Tiger]

Is that his excuse? he was holding me so i whacked him. Tommy is just about dim enough to run with that.

 

[hawkman]

Watch the whole game, lol. If there's behind the goals vision supplied, maybe we'll see that

All forwards get held. But there is currently no evidence apart from Hawkins word that he was held here

 

[Shadow89]

Is that his excuse? he was holding me so i whacked him. Tommy is just about dim enough to run with that.

No he was trying to wrench his arm free, that's the argument. The force of it when he did wrench it free, in the act of leading/running, led to the strike. Regardless of the outcome or my opinion, that's the argument.

 

[JoeHawk]

He has a history of hitting people with insufficient force in finals, to be fair.

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I’d hate to cop that “insufficient force”

 

[DT_35]

It he gets off, I’m done with the AFL

 

[theyellowsash]

Watch the whole game, lol. If there's behind the goals vision supplied, maybe we'll see that

Indeed. Tom Hawkins the real victim here. The only key forward who ever gets held, the AFL need to do something about it.

I'm sure Hocking will get a rule change ready for next year. Something along the lines of any player giving away a holding free kick to a Geelong player suffers an automatic 1 game suspension, and said Geelong player is free to have a cheap shot at the same player or one nearby.

 

[Credit2thaB0is]

Ihle says Hawkins was returning on the trajectory he was running on, having wrenched his arm free. He says that motion is what caused the strike.

What like this?

 

[Shadow89]

Indeed. Tom Hawkins the real victim here. The only key forward who ever gets held, the AFL need to do something about it.

I'm sure Hocking will get a rule change ready for next year. Something along the lines of any player giving away a holding free kick to a Geelong player suffers an automatic 1 game suspension, and said Geelong player is free to have a cheap shot at the same player or one nearby.

Calm down love. I'm not arguing one way or the other. If there's new evidence supplied, then I'll argue with you. Just like David King, my opinion has changed on the basis of the evidence provided. That is how to act in an unbiased way.

 

[SloppyJoe]

It's hard to fully understand what Hawkins is saying he was trying to do without being there in person and hearing his evidence.

But it doesn't read convincingly at all.

 

[Stealth69]

Not even Johnnie Cochran could get him off

"Schofields fist imprint does not match Hawkins fist"

 

[nameless]

Geelong defence team explaining Hawkins' actions...

 

[Shadow89]

If they've been friends since school, why would he intentionally hit him?

I do have to wonder, why so many people have drawn their pitchforks, when we only have one clip supplied. Once all the evidence is supplied, then lose your sh*t. Right now, it's all just rhetoric and hyperbole and most of you sound unhinged. They're looking at vision now, that we have not seen. Once that vision emerges, then we'll have the full story and you can all make your own judgements.

 

[spudmaster]

 

[Jhye Clark 13]

Can any Richmond or Hawthorn fans tell me what's happening?