Toast James Sicily - Hawthorn captain 2023 - AA 2023!

[The Jet From Poowong]

I’m pretty sure the kicking motion was just muscle memory for when Sis played soccer at school.

That was the Gerard Healy and Paul Roos excuse machine on behalf of the Swans

 

[Agent Smith]

Hawthorn's legal defence - checklist:

1. It's Mabo
2. It's "the vibe"

We're all sweating that it works this time.

 

[Bugs1977]

Geez David Zita has covered Sicily closer than Finn tags Daicos

 

[Stranglers]

Hahaha Tribunal have already ruled that evidence from McGrath won't be permitted. The fix is in.

 

[thehardway]

Hahaha Tribunal have already ruled that evidence from McGrath won't be permitted. The fix is in.

Won't even allow SEN McGrath transcript. What a joke.

 

[peetoo]

McGrath pretty much lined him up. Sicily avoided head trauma with his ninjamove

 

[TylerDurden]

 

[TylerDurden]

 

[Stranglers]

So in other words the verdict will be "the appellant has not presented any evidence that the impact was any less than medium". Leaving out the fact that every avenue for presenting that evidence is denied.

 

[Big Hotdog]

FFS...if this isnt dropped, lawyer up and take the AFL for not providing a safe workplace.
We cant continue to let our captain be treated like this.

 

[Hodgey 15]

If this was Nick Daicos he'd be getting ready for to play this week.

 

[Arrogant Frog]

Sally Flynn (AFL): Kicking another player is an inherently dangerous act that has no place in football.

Can already see the way this is going.

 

[Stranglers]

Sally Flynn (AFL): Kicking another player is an inherently dangerous act that has no place in football.

Can already see the way this is going.

Really don't see how that's relevant. It's the impact that's at question.

 

[Bugs1977]

Hahaha Tribunal have already ruled that evidence from McGrath won't be permitted. The fix is in.

So they ask us to present evidence and then deny it when we try to. WTF yeah this isn't going to end well.

 

[cryptor]

If McGrath didn’t lie about what he told the Essendon doctor and they didn’t make something up then the medical report should support McGrath’s disallowed testimony.

Unless medical reports are irrelevant now too which wouldn’t surprise…

 

[Simon Crawshay]

Putin has nothing on the AFL when it comes to ensuring pre determined outcomes.

Even Vladimir would be amazed at the sheer brazeness of how the AFL run their "independent" tribunal.

 

[Stranglers]

AFL are running the "potential to cause injury" line again. So the impact isn't the actual impact, it's the potential impact if he kicked him much harder and in a different way?

 

[hawkman]

Shocked that a Geelong player would get off for something a Hawthorn player gets suspended for

 

[excitingnews]

AFL is trying to make a point here, no chance he gets off

 

[Suntory Boss Coffee]

AFL is trying to make a point here, no chance he gets off

Why do they always seem to make a point with Hawthorn players?

We have no backing at HQ, never have.

 

[hawkman]

So are they going to state what the potential for injury is here? I genuinely have no idea what serious injury could occur from it.

A common trip has more potential for injury than what Sicily did

 

[thehardway]

Jeff Gleeson appears to be chair and prosecutor.

 

[Strapping Young Lad]

I can’t believe what I’m reading. This Tehan clown is hopeless.

Surely, he could have said that the force of the kick was that negligible that the ball would roll off the end of his foot, not that it would’ve gone 10 metres!! FMD.

 

[excitingnews]

Why do they always seem to make a point with Hawthorn players?

We have no backing at HQ, never have.

It’s f*cking absurd, evidence from the victim which supports the claim that it was low impact as opposed to medium is dismissed for seemingly no reason?
If kicking is inherently such a dangerous action then why was it graded with the usual scale?

 

[Hodginator]