Play Nice Toby Greene and "protecting the space"

[RobbieK]

Third time now. Seriously, going at players with your studs up just can't be acceptable.

 

[Anzacpaul]

It looks shithouse.

 

[YippeeYiYeo]

Difference is Greene looks like he is focusing on kicking his opponent to injure as much as he is focused on marking the ball. Blokes a dirty campaigner no doubt about it

 

[gsta12]

whats the difference between kicking in danger to the hand or to the stomach?

 

[Amazing Racer]

The lawmakers will only do something if someone gets a serious injury.....which is a disgrace

 

[ChookMFC]

What's to stop someone from fully kicking, like at maximum ferocity, as long as they take the mark?

Good on Toby Greene for using the rule. He's not doing anything wrong by the rules IMO.

 

[Caj]

Just put the phone down, watch the game and keep your ponderings to yourself is the best answer.

Seems yr by yrself in this one

He’s a dirty flog

 

[base615]

I don't like it but how can people be in such an uproar over it but not care about knees into temples and so on with a speccy? End of the day they are both a dangerous act during a marking contest...

I got ripped to pieces on here when I said the knees in speccy had to be banned

 

[Dingster]

Going with the studs should be weeks if contact is made. That will stop it.

 

[Ando727]

He's a dirty player. Repeat offender. Nobody else even considers this to be an option. I consider it a kick - but if the umpires can't adjudicate it that way, they need to add a rule to stop this. It's beyond a "bad look" as Lingy put it, it's downright dangerous and lousy sportsmanship.

 

[lionsrules]

That last one... must be some taekwondo reflex from his early years.
What a scumbag and Cameron's little giggle....

 

[Cool Kangas]

Is he protecting the space or kicking players coming at him? Has done it twice in the Sydney final and also kicked the Bulldogs player in the head.

Should more be done to stamp it out or play on?

I just dont get it. You can’t push a player out in a marking contest but you can KICK them out of the way??!

 

[matty lloyd the champ]

Waite used to do it a fair bit but not to the degree that Toby has today. A knee should be okay but studs out at 90 degrees should not be allowed.

 

[JohnnyFontane90]

studs make contact with player = free kick ad 50m penalty

 

[Pomsta]

If this was reportable Jarrod Waite would have played half the games that he did. It's dangerous, should be banned but at the moment is legal so nothing to see here.

 

[ChookMFC]

Would a blanket rule of "you cannot fend off with the foot" be added or is that overkill?

I think the rules should be "No thrusting from the knee, i.e., kicking" and "No contact to a player with the underside of your boot".

But honestly, I just love situations like this when a player finds a rules blackhole that no one has found and just goes to town with it. I love that stuff.

 

[SCRAY72]

AFL have ticked off on it.

 

[Gydafud]

I think the rules should be "No thrusting from the knee, i.e., kicking" and "No contact to a player with the underside of your boot".

But honestly, I just love situations like this when a player finds a rules blackhole that no one has found and just goes to town with it. I love that stuff.

Kind of like Joel Selwood?

 

[captain blood 17]

Needs to be looked at. That’s a really dangerous action.


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[Jugada]

No more dangerous than blokes kneeing opponents in the back and head when going for a mark. Probably less dangerous even

 

[Anzacday]

Waite used to do it a fair bit but not to the degree that Toby has today.

Waite used his shin more from memory.
Don't recall the sole of the boot being used.

 

[sherb]

Needs to be looked at. That’s a really dangerous action.

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Agreed. It should be outlawed.

 

[Snarls Barkley]

the AFL made a huge mistake by not suspending him after the doggies incident

That wasn’t the huge mistake, Greene thinks he’s playing within the rules and a lot of people agree with him with the way the rules are written. Huge mistake was not changing the rules at the end of the season to outlaw the action. Jarrad Waite did it for years and I thought it was crazy they didn’t change the rule, couldn’t believe that the didn’t change the rule at the end of last season after the Dahlhaus incident.

 

[ChookMFC]

Kind of like Joel Selwood?

Actually yes.

 

[nameless]

Needs to be banned.

Reiwoldt does it too.