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This whole report and suspension of Walker for absolute fk-all gives me the shits.
You just know deep down that if he was wearing a Collingwood, Carlton, Essendon or Richmond guernsey when wearing that tackle that nothing would have come of it at all.
There was no way NLM ( especially) nor Hahas were going to be cited with the Dreamtime match coming up. The MRP seems to respond to the Victorian media as well....if they highlight it, the MRP will agree
Nobody says that he got 2 weeks simply because he plays for an interstate team. All that is being said is that he wouldn't have received any penalty if he played for Collingwood, Carlton, Essendon or Richmond. Big difference.
Simple. If you get screwed over by a governing body that lacks integrity and transparency in its arbitration then what reasoning is there to suggest you ain't going to cop the same outcome on appeal?.
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I still don't agree with that assertion.
If the MRP were being told to give greater penalties to players who play for smaller teams, clubs would be in court.
It's not about penalties. It's about citing.
Once the MRP decides to not cite the Bombres player, the greater penatly argument is null & void.
This whole report and suspension of Walker for absolute fk-all gives me the shits.
You just know deep down that if he was wearing a Collingwood, Carlton, Essendon or Richmond guernsey when wearing that tackle that nothing would have come of it at all.
Emotionally, I wanted the club to appeal what I think is an injustice, but they obviously are pretty certain that an appeal would be unsuccessful, or they would have. They want Walker to play as much as we do.
It's up to the rest of the boys to cover for him now.
http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/sport/free-tex-and-kick-the-afls-ass/story-e6frecj3-1226355974205THE problem with Tex Walker is that he's trying to play footy in a league rapidly becoming less tough than the average pillow fight. Nobody wants to go back to the days of thugs whacking guys behind play. Or tacklers "lifting" and spearing their opponents.
But diving into someone's back as you tackle is a free kick (or should be), so the tackler has to take the opponent sideways. That's what Walker did. Damn it, the umpires - who saw the incident in real time, not in the deceptive slow motion, did not even award a free kick.
In the videos above, watch the Lovett-Murray and Nahas tackles, which did not attract a penalty and the Walker effort. Which was most dangerous?
This is an instinctive sport, where players have to make decisions in an moment. They don't have time to do the physics and play the scenario out in their head in slow motion 10 times before acting.
Clearly some of us here on this board were wrong thinking the AFC could say Walker was guilty then challenge the Medium impact with out risk of a 3 match ban.
How on earth Nahas didn't get games is beyond me either. That was a classic spear tackle if ever I saw one.
Shhhhhhhhhh!!! Don't give them ideas!(The MRP simply could not suspend 22 players in one week if there were hard tackling could they?)
Gah, annoyed we have not contested this.
nice going, you raged at the receptionist..AFC the girl guide club of the AFL. Shits me we are so PATHETIC and when I rang and let them know my displeasure at them not appealing Walkers suspension, well they hang up on me cause I said the clubs gives me the shits. "sorry sir I am hanging up because you said shit!!" What is this club coming too?
Cure- 1 tablespoon of concrete. THIS IS CONTACT FOOTBALL not bloody netball!!!!
nice going, you raged at the receptionist..
i'm shitty we didn't contest it though