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AFL to change MRP system mid-season to ensure players who punch opponents are punished
THE AFL will tinker with its MRP system in coming weeks to ensure players guilty of punching an opponent face suspension — with changes to be implemented this season.
Tired of seeing players punching opponents and not being appropriately punished, AFL football operations boss Simon Lethlean said the league would take steps in coming days in a bid to rid itself of punching.
Lethlean said changes to the MRP grading table would be worked on in coming days and, unusually, changes would be made mid-season.
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About time.
Boak has been punched several times in the stomach for no reason.
What's the betting one of our players will be the first one they will make an example of? And it probably won't even be a real punch, just a bit of pushing and shoving.
 

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Anyone catch the Titus O'Reilly bit on channel 7's footy coverage, pretty much confirming he's a completely unfunny campaigner who occasionally hits the mark, rather than a funny guy who sometimes misses?
TV/radio is not his medium. His staples are sarcasm and self deprecation and they work so much better when read in social media/blog format than they do listening to him for real.
 

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What's the betting one of our players will be the first one they will make an example of? And it probably won't even be a real punch, just a bit of pushing and shoving.
That seems to happen anyway. It will help us as the other teams wont get away with it whilst ours are pinged now.
 
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Anyone catch the Titus O'Reilly bit on channel 7's footy coverage, pretty much confirming he's a completely unfunny campaigner who occasionally hits the mark, rather than a funny guy who sometimes misses?
I used to find him funny because he was a Melbourne supporter, now I just wish he supported Richmond.
 

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TV/radio is not his medium. His staples are sarcasm and self deprecation and they work so much better when read in social media/blog format than they do listening to him for real.
i reckon his podcast is ok

but a lot of it is still self-deprecation and obvious sarcasm
 

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What's the betting one of our players will be the first one they will make an example of? And it probably won't even be a real punch, just a bit of pushing and shoving.
Hartlett will be out for weeks........he's already a repeat offender
 

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Hartlett will be out for weeks........he's already a repeat offender

We play Hawthorn in a couple of weeks. They'll get "unsociable", goad him into something, he'll give Rioli a tap to the stomach who will go down like he was shot. Hawks medical staff will later fry Hartlett on a trumped up medical report. Business as usual.
 

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We play Hawthorn in a couple of weeks. They'll get "unsociable", goad him into something, he'll give Rioli a tap to the stomach who will go down like he was shot. Hawks medical staff will later fry Hartlett on a trumped up medical report. Business as usual.
good thing Rioli wont be playing then.
 

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We play Hawthorn in a couple of weeks. They'll get "unsociable", goad him into something, he'll give Rioli a tap to the stomach who will go down like he was shot. Hawks medical staff will later fry Hartlett on a trumped up medical report. Business as usual.
Hawks won 3 flags on the back of being allowed to play an 'unsociable' game parroted by the media as a fashionable 'cool' style of gameplan. Umpires gave them extra leverage as a result to allow them to play with additional physicality not bestowed to their opposition.

that was the added advantage along with getting a 'home' grand final 4 years in a row.
 

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Hawks won 3 flags on the back of being allowed to play an 'unsociable' game parroted by the media as a fashionable 'cool' style of gameplan. Umpires gave them extra leverage as a result to allow them to play with additional physicality not bestowed to their opposition.

that was the added advantage along with getting a 'home' grand final 4 years in a row.
Yeah but those Hawks are gone: replaced by a rabble who struggled to beat the wooden spoon favourites by 6 goals. I want to pulverise them on Thursday week.
 
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