Steven May hits Francis Evans

[Jim Cricket]

If you can't spot the differences between these two incidents, nobody can help you.

I'll just have a read back to where I've said these incidents were exactly the same. Nope, can't find it. I can spot the differences, unlike some who can't spot the similarities.

Can count on one hand the amount of times I've agreed with Derm on something. Add this to that small list.

I can count them on one finger and this is the one.

 

[LOLchie Schultz]

Can count on one hand the amount of times I've agreed with Derm on something. Add this to that small list.

Ive never supported anything Derm has had to say, that was until right now!

 

[Fadge]

Can count on one hand the amount of times I've agreed with Derm on something. Add this to that small list.

Absolutely spot on.

And what he says about Gleeson also goes the same for those arguing the same narrative on this forum.

 

[SC_Power]

I've watched this incident repeatedly, and I'm still struggling to see how so many posters are arriving at the view that May was going for the ball.

Because he was.

But that’s opinions isn’t it?

 

[Underarm]

Can count on one hand the amount of times I've agreed with Derm on something. Add this to that small list.

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[SC_Power]

Absolutely spot on.

And what he says about Gleeson also goes the same for those arguing the same narrative on this forum.

Can’t believe that there are people that on here, who have played the game of football, and think that May should not have gone full pelt towards attacking that football.

(Late edit: “have” instead of “I’ve”)

 

[sherb]

Because he was.

But that’s opinions isn’t it?

Running at the player with the ball doesn't mean you are going for the ball.

And that's what happened here. At no stage did I see May contest the ball - he ran at and collided with Evans, collecting him head high, and the ball spilt free incidentally as a result of that contact.

But yeah, opinions.

 

[RCAB]

Shows just how badly Gleeson is out of touch. Even a Hawthorn person sees right through this, and all Hawthorn people [players, fans, sponsors etc] are football illiterate. The lowest footy IQ group in the game and even still Derm can manage to piece together Gleeson being a numpty.

Are you racist by any chance?

 

[SC_Power]

Running at the player with the ball doesn't mean you are going for the ball.

And that's what happened here. At no stage did I see May contest the ball - he ran at and collided with Evans, collecting him head high, and the ball spilt free incidentally as a result of that contact.

But yeah, opinions.

Watch the vision, not your opinion. The ball spilled free with May’s hands/forearm actually knocking the ball out of Evans’s hands.
Two players running at a ball invariably means that two players are running at the same spot. Or are you saying that Evans was deliberately running at May as well?
Coming to the conclusion that May had the ability to know the ball would bounce on its end, and foresee 8-10 steps out and run in a straight line at the perfect angle and hold a body position to catch Evans high who tried to spin out of a collision, yeah ok that makes sense

Yeah, opinions.

 

[RCAB]

Watch the vision, not your opinion. The ball spilled free with May’s hands/forearm actually knocking the ball out of Evans’s hands.
Two players running at a ball invariably means that two players are running at the same spot. Or are you saying that Evans was deliberately running at May as well?
Coming to the conclusion that May had the ability to know the ball would bounce on its end, and foresee 8-10 steps out and run in a straight line at the perfect angle and hold a body position to catch Evans high who tried to spin out of a collision, yeah ok that makes sense

Yeah, opinions.

I think you just need to come with the terms that regardless of whether they're both going for the ball, May has time to evade and decides not to and therefore he now has a three week suspension. This is the norm.

You either accept or you don't. Your opinion doesn't matter and won't move the needle whatsoever here.

 

[maskmcgee]

Keep hearing the media say the tribunal found 'he should of predicted the bounce of the ball', but I'm pretty sure they said he shouldnt have charged towards a player at high speed.

 

[sherb]

Watch the vision, not your opinion. The ball spilled free with May’s hands/forearm actually knocking the ball out of Evans’s hands.
Two players running at a ball invariably means that two players are running at the same spot. Or are you saying that Evans was deliberately running at May as well?
Coming to the conclusion that May had the ability to know the ball would bounce on its end, and foresee 8-10 steps out and run in a straight line at the perfect angle and hold a body position to catch Evans high who tried to spin out of a collision, yeah ok that makes sense

Yeah, opinions.

Back at you.

As I said, the fact that the ball was knocked free looked incidental to me - not something that May was trying to achieve when he barged into Evans.

Evans had the ball, it was up to May to legally dispossess him of it. He didn't do that, nor did it appear to me that he tried to.

Yeah, opinions.

 

[Art Vandelay_]

Are you racist by any chance?

No, just anti-stupid.

 

[RCAB]

No, just anti-stupid.

And you think all Hawthorn people are stupid? Do you think this is an intelligent thought?

 

[Art Vandelay_]

And you think all Hawthorn people are stupid? Do you think this is an intelligent thought?

In life. No.
When talking football...

 

[RCAB]

In life. No.
When talking football...

Your comment is not clever

 

[LongSerong]

Wow this Dee's legal council is cooking

 

[Gavin Excell]

Wow this Dee's legal council is cooking

What's their defence angle?

 

[Fadge]

What's their defence angle?

Stupidity of original decision.

 

[RCAB]

What's their defence angle?

Can't predict bouncing balls.

I guess we can kill people because you happen to be in the way of a bouncing ball.

 

[chickenonachain]

Should never have got weeks players need to learn how to protect themselves when going for the ball

 

[Art Vandelay_]

Rubbish decision from the appeals board. Utter BS he's missing 3 matches for nothing

 

[chickenonachain]

Rubbish decision from the appeals board. Utter BS he's missing 3 matches for nothing

Exactly, have a look at the Carlton player he’s wide open,doesn’t brace for contact ,doesn’t know how to protect himself.

 

[JackFlash]

Greene cops a week for a sly elbow to the head, but May cops 3 weeks for a footy incident? Madness!

 

[PiCkLeJuiCe]

Melbourne arguing hard for an AFL player to predict a bouncing ball.......for a ball that bounced in a perfectly straight line. Maybe May isn't of an AFL standard.