How did Kerr get away with that....

[DockerNJL]

FFS just seen that carr hit is a total dog act,

How the hell did he get off that, inconclusive my ass

Wonder if roo's will come out + say he's a protected species

 

[Nodgey]

I'm sure people have been done for "attempted striking" in the past.

IMO the JCarr one was very crude, but it was front on and Josh sort of had a chance to see it coming and brace for it. Rough play possibly, and maybe a week. More so with his record....

The Pav one was inconclusive. Play on.

But for mine, the elbow on Palmer was by far the worst of all three. Palmer was pinned by the arms by Priddis, and I reckon Kerr knew it, and he lined him up. And through either sheer luck, or bad aim, or because Rhys is REALLY as fast as lightning, he just missed/grazed him.

Kerr is very lucky. It's those sorts of things the AFL is trying to stamp out. Luckily for Kerr (and VERY lucky for Rhys) his cheap shot missed.


On a side note - isn't this exactly how the slime supporters were acting last year after the derby?

If so, then I'll go on the attack and say that Ben Cousins was a grown man (with history) who can look after himself. Taking cheap shots against a 2nd game player is soft.

 

[peterss]

Nothing in the Palmer one at all and if you think otherwise go play netball!

And that Sniper Carr gets all he deserves!

 

[Sman-21]

I think you will find most agree there was not much contact
BUT
due to other soft stuff that gets penalised this should have been too.
Not even sure if he actually got the chin might have just got him on the neck.
Definatly realised he was missing an extended the elbow out hoping to get some contact.

Seems 1 week they suspend people for practically nothing then the next they get away with everything(hawks osborne).

 

[WA ROO]

If what I have read elsewhere is true,Kerr is lucky Palmer didn't go after him

 

[hoogs]

Welcome to the AFL young man. mate if there was anything in in, Kerr would have been the first to go

Funnily enough, it was as if Palmer was welcoming the Eagles. As hard as you all tired to hurt him, he destroyed your club in the first half. More like, "Welcome to the PFL" (Palmer's Football League).

Funny how Kerr didn't try that sort of business with J.Carr or anyone bigger. Kerr would be shitting his little pants. Instead, he went for the youngest guy on the field. For someone who has imaginary watermelons under his arm, he isn't very tough.

Loved how Kerr got smashed by Black, as he was running in to kick a goal to give WC one last chance. Absolutely drove him into the turf. Unlike Kerr, Black did it within the rules, got a free kick and got a result.

 

[Belnakor]

Kerr is a gutless thug just like his old man, takes pleasure in hitting teenagers.

 

[dockers_bengals]

Well thats the tribunal
I don't why the Pav one was there.
Does this mean that if Palmer was knocked out it still would be accidental contact.

 

[Belnakor]

the question is whether it was accidential or negligant or reckless. Kerr was certainly reckless in that hit on palmer.

 

[The Night Shift]

maybe it's time we let this one go....
move on

 

[Nodgey]

..like that clear 50m penalty he should have got, but didn't, in the last quarter when Jones pushed him to the ground after he'd taken an unconstested mark...

 

[sabre_ac]

Can you be suspended for intent?

I agree Kerr has always been and will always be somewhat dirty player (His ability aside) AND had he made contact he would have had an extended holiday.

But in the end it was a slight graze, nothing more. If the table's were turned who would be calling for Palmer to be suspended for a similar hit on Kerr?

 

[hoogs]

If the table's were turned who would be calling for Palmer to be suspended for a similar hit on Kerr?

The AFL, WAFC, Eagles, Pies, Channel 7, 9 & 10, the West, the Sunday Times and Gunnar Lonshanks among others...

 

[Quinz]

Kerr Senior is on trial as we speak at Fremantle Court for his behaviour at that party.

She says that he slapped Mr Kerr's daughter, punched his son and later told friends he would ruin Daniel Kerr's career...

Not particularly relevent to the thread, but seeing as it was brought up, understandable actions from Kerr snr. if true.

As far as the Kerr suspension goes, I don't think anyone in the AFL would like someone to get suspended for a "hit" like the one on Palmer. Watching it again, it looked like Kerr was going for the ball, realised he wouldn't make it and tried to bump Palmer on the way through, wasn't a fully raisd elbow, but really not sure why he did it, if he had connected it would have been more serious.

Not going to speculate on the Pavlich one because I can't see anything from the footage, and don't think there was a lot in the Josh Carr one either.

 

[wce4premiership]

the J.Carr one wasn't accidential and the Palmer one was dubious. Kerr is a bit of a sniper.

LOL at the hypocrisy of you guys. Last time we were whinging about carr, you guys gave it to us.

 

[wce4premiership]

I think the sport your looking for is Netball.

Accidental contact. Shut up.

Well said, the tribunal was never going to get kerr because he's done nothing wrong, keep crying.

 

[hoogs]

LOL at the hypocrisy of you guys. Last time we were whinging about carr, you guys gave it to us.

What did Carr do to Kerr except harass him? Nothing. I think people here were more peeved at 6PR & Co entertaining the old WC ladies that called up complaingin about Carr being a bully, when he had simply played a legal and physical game. I don't even remember him being investigated after that match. On the other hand, Kerr had 3 investigations dropped.

The difference is that you lot had no right to complain.

I personally don't care, because it proved to everyone who watched the game that Kerr or WC could try to hurt him all they want, but they couldn't. For the other people here, they have all the right to rip Kerr. He's a drug____ed tosspot.

Watching him get dropped by Black and done for holding the ball at the end of the game was the highlight for me...next to Pav bitching Adam Hunter with a nice screamer (my new desktop picture), or Duffield's contested marks in the final quarter, or Palmer's Rising Star nomination performance, or Woosha having a sad with the media afterwards, or Jacko saying Freo were playing into WC hands when the ball was kicked directly to a Freo forward inside 50 who goaled. Hmmm, lots of favourite bits. What was your favourite bit? The trip home?

 

[Belnakor]

What was your favourite bit? The trip home?

I'd bet that was his favorite bit - he beat the traffic.

 

[Hawkamania!]

Kerr is a "protected player".

http://www.smh.com.au/news/Sport/Umpires-protect-ball-players-Gieschen/2007/05/07/1178390216785.html

AFL umpires boss Jeff Gieschen acknowledges that the likes of West Coast stars Chris Judd and Daniel Kerr get looked after by the whistle-blowers. Western Bulldogs coach Rodney Eade and Richmond captain Kane Johnson, West Coast's opponents in the past two weeks, have suggested the Eagles' stars are a protected species.
Gieschen, the AFL director of umpiring, said the umpires viewed them that way, along with any other AFL stars who fitted the category of "ball players".
"Our umpires are under instruction and always have been to protect the pure ball players as much as possible," Gieschen told AAP.
"Where you've got Simon Black, Gary Ablett, Robert Harvey, Brent Harvey, McLeod, Thomas, Burgoyne, Judd, Kerr, all those pure ball players are often the subject of very close checking.

Back in 2006, Kerr hit our Sam Mitchell in the groin and got off because he said he was aiming for the leg.

There is no consistency with umpires, the match review committee or the tribunal and it's much worse when they protect certain players.

 

[anti.]

wah wah wah...get over it guys.

hey hawkamania, why all the crying over lewis getting a week because pratt was soft. remember back in 2005 at aurora stadium when phil matera done the same thing to osbourne and he took a dive. phil got a week. now doesnt that make osbourne soft? "nahhh pratt's a bitch! osbourne is as tough as nails!". please shutup.

 

[Quinz]

Back in 2006, Kerr hit our Sam Mitchell in the groin and got off because he said he was aiming for the leg.

Apart from the fact he got suspended and cost him a good shot at the brownlow you mean?

 

[pistol17]

Apart from the fact he got suspended and cost him a good shot at the brownlow you mean?

Would he have won it if not suspended?? Dont think so.

The day a sniper like Kerr wins the brownlow medal, the term Best and "fairest" wont mean a thing. If his name was Dean Solomon, Josh Carr, Beau Waters or Campbell Brown etc... There wouldnt be any inconclusive evidence cos all those guys above were pinged by shite evidence in the past.