Red cards in AFL?

[TW Sherrin]

Big footy is great. It's not an issue until it happens to my team then the world's ending.

 

[DazalenkoUBewty]

As the rewards for winning get greater then the chances of this occurring only increase

Red cards would ruin the game.

How would u give a red card anyway? Sit down and go over the replay 15 times?

The umps can't tell what is accidental, and what isn't, things happen too quick.

Head high contact is inevitable in our game.

The ump could give a red card, only for the replay to show that he shouldn't have.

I get what you are saying, but it's just not going to work in our game.

Bring in red cards and all of a sudden we'll see players consistently diving!

 

[Slax]

Red cards would ruin the game.

How would u give a red card anyway? Sit down and go over the replay 15 times?

The umps can't tell what is accidental, and what isn't. Head high contact is inevitable in our game. It just wouldn't work.

The ump could give a red card, only for the replay to show that he shouldn't have.

I get what you are saying, but it's just not going to work in our game.

Bring in red cards and all of a sudden we'll see players consistently diving!

Yellow cards work well in both rugby codes which is probably more appropriate, soccer has had it for years and works perfectly well and local football now have a card system, so why not the AFL? It would actually solve cheap shots like last night by being a man down for 10 minutes.

 

[BORK]

Your blokes have form for loosing the plot in gf's.

Was a pity Lynch did not give Pickett some of his own medicine that day. I do not think he was capable of a run up though by the time he snapped and punched the air.

 

[Mister_A]

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Hits like that used to happen every week.

Thank **** it has changed then.

 

[DemonTim]

So a team could go the man in a GF knock out 4 players of the opposition and its match over. Is that fair?

How many times has that happened in the 150 years of the game? The rules are now tighter on physical contact now. You're jumping at shadows and wanting revenge

 

[sportsmaniac89]

No, definitely not. Wouldn't want to give the umpires any more power than they already have.

Bad idea

 

[blitzer]

No, I don't trust our umpires to get it right. So absolutely, no. Plus we've scarcely seen a knockout in a grand final as it is in recent years.

This is a massive overreaction to a single incident.

 

[BORK]

West tried the biff against North in the first quarter of the 1991 SANFL Grand Final. Steven Simms through his hit in during the second quarter. More entertainment ensued. Highly recommend any football fan watch that game.

 

[Mister_A]

Don't think he lined him up from 50m away and ran through him.

That's pretty much what he did do, actually.

 

[Slax]

How many times has that happened in the 150 years of the game? The rules are now tighter on physical contact now. You're jumping at shadows and wanting revenge

When money becomes a bigger factor then you need to consider these things. It may not happen now, but if a team loses a final because of it then what will happen?

The league needs to be pro-active not reactive. The AFL hasn't been proactive to the needs of the game for years.

 

[Astro_]

Umpires make mistakes all the time when rewarding free kicks. Not sure I want them responsible for deciding who should receive a red card

 

[Mister_A]

No one's died= it can't be too bad? **** me some people are stupid. If you can't see the number of ways someone could be seriously injured by that sort of hit, I can't help you.

'back in my day'

This post is the most sensible here.

 

[Mister_A]

when was the last time a team has had this mind set in a GF?

1989. Only 25-odd ago. Brissy got close to it in the 2000s, too.

 

[dave123]

It's worked in the WAFL

SINCE IT WAS BOUGHT WVE SEEN LESS THUGGERY

the evidence stacks up. Am in favour of it ...yes for thug punch or elbow to the head stuff

Not for the Stephen may incident

 

[DemonTim]

When money becomes a bigger factor then you need to consider these things. It may not happen now, but if a team loses a final because of it then what will happen?

The league needs to be pro-active not reactive. The AFL hasn't been proactive to the needs of the game for years.

So they need to make rules proactively against everything that MAY happen (but has no statistical or historical backing for the thoughts that it may happen)

Shit. Paul Roos could offer a fan 50k to belt Pendlebury in the street today. do we need a rule to prevent this? I mean it's never happened in the past, but it MAY happen

Jumping. At. Shadows.

 

[Tiger_Of_Old]

Can imagine Razor Ray before the game.

 

[Bunk Moreland]

I agree. Only to be used sparingly, but what is stopping a player from destroying the oppositions superstar like that to decide an important final?

I dunno.

What's stopped them for the last 150 years?

 

[DaVillaBlues]

I honestly don't think it was anywhere as bad/severe as people are saying.

3-4 weeks seems ample, anything over 6 weeks is extremely excessive.. And a red card is a bad idea.

 

[TW Sherrin]

I honestly don't think it was anywhere as bad/severe as people are saying.

3-4 weeks seems ample, anything over 6 weeks is extremely excessive.. And a red card is a bad idea.

+1

 

[DemonTim]

+1

If Jeremy Howe takes a hanger and injures someone today I hope all these people are calling for red cards for hangers

 

[Sweet Jesus]

Is it time for red cards in footy?

What does time have to do with it?

It's either a good idea or it isn't. I'm not sure what 'it's time' means.

At 7pm every night, 'it's time' for me to have dinner. But I'm not sure how that expression relates to this discussion.

 

[Doggies1972]

Personally don't think there was to much in it to be honest. Can't remember who or what game it was about 2 weeks ago with a similar hit, only difference being the player cleaned up had the ball, and it was all "what a great hit". There is no law saying you can't hip and shoulder without the ball when going to collide. Giving the umps a red card capability would have seen both players I mentioned in both tackles sent off. Also I think it would lead to the Soccer acting skills of players being hit and trying to milk it for more than what it actually was.

 

[rhinowce]

No one's died= it can't be too bad? **** me some people are stupid. If you can't see the number of ways someone could be seriously injured by that sort of hit, I can't help you.

'back in my day'

There's plenty of dangerous things that happen on the footy field, ok for example if may didn't jump but still dropped him with a head clash would you still be upset??

 

[nobbyiscool]

I agree with it in theory (assuming the player sent off can be replaced by a player on the bench so its still 18 v 18).

The issue, as many others have already identified in the thread, is that no one (including myself) trusts our umpires to get it right, and to adjudicate it consistently.

If we can't get a consistent adjudication of 15 metres between 3 umpires in 1 game (ala Hawks v Saints yesterday), let alone across 9 games, how the hell are they going to do it with something as major as a guy being banished from a match?