- Feb 21, 2006
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I didn't see anything wrong with the circumstances of the bump - it was in play. So it comes down to where Berry was hit and how hard.
I am not convinced the initial contact from May was with the chin/throat. I'm not sayin it wasn't - I just can't tell.
It looks as though there was incidental high contact with the chin/throat moving down towards May's shoulder as a consequence of the bump (which you can go for these days I believe), but it was relatively minor.
Almost all of the force was to the chest and its pretty clear he had the wind knocked out of him.
I think if you bump someone and there is minor incidental high contact that doesn't really have any effect, with the major effect coming from the 'fair' part of the bump, you shouldn't get a week.
That's where I stood too, which is why I started the thread. I wasn't sure if it was just my MFC bias though as all the commentary around it was calling for a suspension which is where I was more bemused rather than the decision to suspend by Christian.
I thought he'd get off on appeal I was legitimately shocked it wasn't downgraded to low impact. If that was medium impact the threshold for high impact must be extremely low these days as he didn't even follow through on the bump.
Anyhow decisions made, he'll be back for round 2 - but I expect this thread to get bumped in a few weeks when another player does exactly the same thing and gets off.