Autopsy Hawks: 30 minutes not enough for 4 points...
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i think you will agree it was less a criticism, more a marker of his game across his career. I have seen better 2 goal games from him.
I thought he played a much better game than I thought your comments indicated, hence I do not agree. He played very well and as a small forward made the most of every half chance that presented. Furthermore breaking free of scragging back men to get on the lead is not a straight forward as you obviously believe.
Yeah we'll rip into them for the rest of the year, as you seem to think, they'll need ripping into , for the rest of the year.
That must mean we're going to have beatings like that every week til the last day, hey?
Fair dinkum, Clarko doesn't predict anything , you should know that, and we are not all about last weeks game , we never are or ever have been.
And to those whodislike losing I hate it, but 8 goals to 3 , is a good effort pulled out of a good kicking, it means the other bloke has a few bruises too.
Teams need to keep their kitchen hot all day, neither North nor Hawthorn did that!
Now , Sicily has fire and passion and young person tough man syndrome, you need some mongrel in a few players , but Sicily must realise now that being OFF the ground doesn't help the club.
Being noticed as a hot head , especially with the likes of Ray and a couple of his mates, that free kicks may not come his way much any more?????
Have a think boyo?
And as we've seen, umpires are now actually creating outcomes , in a game that was never meant to have adjudicators become a clear and present danger, to the result, that stands for any club these days, terrible but true, with blind rule following umpires with no football instinct
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Now Sic may want to be the new Dermie, but he isn't, and this game now does not allow it, so have another think young man.
Look a Lindsay Thomas he just can't help it, his days are done.
We just had one!
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l know what you meant Thai but when l hear the word three peat my mind wanders back to the glory days.
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What's your opinion of Higgins' head clash?
Bigeasy
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He should have tackled. That's the rule.
Why would he tackle? He had the ball.
Bigeasy
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Burton didn't have the ball and it's not as if he just saw Higgins.
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No it's not. That has never been the rule. What sport are you watching? The bump is legal. It has always been legal. Burton got him body to body. Accidental head clash, unlucky but no issue.
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Why is this so hard to understand?
It’s like the info is always there, but people just want to ignore it & replace it with bulls**t that serves their purpose in a better way.
Bigeasy
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If you elect to bump and hit the head isn't that a suspension?
Yep, Burton should have driven his shoulder into Higgins' ribs while attempting to tackle. Probably would have put him out of the game longer with bruised or busted ribs.
Burton almost stopped dead in front of Higgins, rather than running through him as he could have. If Higgins had realised the contact was coming, he would have braced better for the contact.
I think Burton showed a great amount of care for Higgins as he could have done him cold into next year but didn't. That is what saved him at the tribunal, his intent.
Speaking of intent, Sicily had no malice with his gentle step on Atley, yet the snipper who pushed Mirra into the fence knew exactly what he was doing.
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The shoulder didn’t make contact with the head. The clash of bodies resulted in an accidental head clash. So in short, no.
There is a moral to the story, and that is: "If you are tired because didn't get a good night's sleep, and therefore are not 100% alert, don't play footy; you could get hurt."
IMO this is the message the AFL should be promoting from the incident, and not whether or not Burton should be suspended.
On his own admission, Higgins said as much.
IMO this is the message the AFL should be promoting from the incident, and not whether or not Burton should be suspended.
On his own admission, Higgins said as much.
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No the rule is written as if you elect to bump when you had another choice and head contact occurs you may be in trouble
not will be, may be
Higgins didn't have the ball so Burton couldn't tackle
I think the decision was correct and FWIW Burton was pretty shaken up by what happened and called Higgins to make sure he was ok afterwards, nothing malicious in it from that kid
Bigeasy
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Yes Higgins mentioned that in his presser. I agree it wasn't malicious.
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It also wasn't what I would call careless, the bump was executed correctly, it was an accidental head clash which can happen in a tackle or marking contest etc
I'm happy with the AFL saying he had no intent to injure, he wasn't careless in the action he took and the end result was an accident so we aren't going to penalize the player for that.
The issue we have is that in the past they did penalize the player for the accident, if they keep this consistency moving forward I think the shock will wear off and people will become more reasonable about it
at the moment all they can remember is when their bloke got rubbed out 3 years ago from the same sort of thing
the key really is consistency, if you are playing within the rules and its an accident you shouldn't wear the outcome, Thomas collected Selwood in the head with his shoulder so he goes, Le Cras and Burton don't and they get to play on
I'm happy with that as long as they keep too it.
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