Toby Greene boot to Luke Dahlhaus face.

[SterlingArcher]

So Careless, High Contact, Low Impact?

Assuming so, and I don't watch enough to know but how many other "low impact" reports draw blood?

Misconduct charges don't need to be graded. Don't think it was graded.

 

[Colonial]

Well, Judd drew blood when he elbowed Pavlich in the face during his Carlton Brownlow year. Pavlich still bears the scar on his cheek, but the MRP said it was insufficient force.
To say this is low impact is comparable to that farce.

Don't jumper punch, don't give light punches to the stomach, don't bump and have an accidental head clash.
Just kick a player in the face and get away with a fine.

Wonder if it happens again (it's an effective way to play the game) will they clamp down on it?

Wasnt a kick. But keep on with the outrage

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[Golden_6]

The precedent has been set. I can't wait until AFL players now realize that this is now an effective strategy at protecting the space around you, and this sort of action becomes a lot more regular.

 

[SterlingArcher]

Well, Judd drew blood when he elbowed Pavlich in the face during his Carlton Brownlow year. Pavlich still bears the scar on his cheek, but the MRP said it was insufficient force.
To say this is low impact is comparable to that farce.

Don't jumper punch, don't give light punches to the stomach, don't bump and have an accidental head clash.
Just kick a player in the face and get away with a fine.

Wonder if it happens again (it's an effective way to play the game) will they clamp down on it?

A free kick was paid and a fine was given, that's not an 'effective way to play the game'.

I mean you're clearly incapable of looking at this logically as you are able to dumb down the incident to 'just kick a player in the face' so I suppose that tells the rest of us all we need to know.

 

[vanders]

Sanity prevails

 

[SterlingArcher]

The precedent has been set. I can't wait until AFL players now realize that this is now an effective strategy at protecting the space around you, and this sort of action becomes a lot more regular.

This is an extremely emotional and dramatic way to view the incident. In no ****ing way was this an 'effective strategy'.

I bet you a dickton of dollars that this does not become a lot more regular or is seen as effective.

 

[BG32]

The precedent has been set. I can't wait until AFL players now realize that this is now an effective strategy at protecting the space around you, and this sort of action becomes a lot more regular.

Exactly, someone will get ****ed up bad by a similar incident. Then the AFL will do something, they should use their brains for once and do something about it now

 

[Cmarsh]

The precedent has been set. I can't wait until AFL players now realize that this is now an effective strategy at protecting the space around you, and this sort of action becomes a lot more regular.

He got charged for misconduct and fined. So its not an 'effective strategy' as you put it.

 

[Sedat!]

Any intent to hurt and it should have been 5-6 weeks but he was clearly going for the ball and protecting himself.

I've never seen any player thrust their boor towards an opposition player's face in an open play situation in 40 years of watching the game. This sets a terrible precedent whereby players have now been given tacit approval by the MRP to jump in the air and raise their boot for a handball receive towards an opponent's face and not suffer a suspension irrespective of the consequences (they might get a fine at worst).

Can we all now stop reinforcing the myth that Greene is a marked man? He's clearly not. Anyway like I said previously it helps the Dogs that he is playing next week against West Coast.

 

[Colonial]

I've never seen any player thrust their boor towards an opposition player's face in an open play situation in 40 years of watching the game. This sets a terrible precedent whereby players have now been given tacit approval by the MRP to jump in the air and raise their boot for a handball receive towards an opponent's face and not suffer a suspension irrespective of the consequences (they might get a fine at worst).

Can we all now stop reinforcing the myth that Greene is a marked man? He's clearly not. Anyway like I said previously it helps the Dogs that he is playing next week against West Coast.

He is a marked man.

You vics just hammer him.

For once they got it right in their decision.

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[Milanista28]

Did he even get him in the face?? All the vision I've seen say its inconclusive.

 

[Spursfan]

If it went the other way you would have players running at peoples legs staging for frees and to rub out players.

Oh wait thats right your club likes to duck for frees

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Don't forget some of those 'handballs'

 

[Beerfish]

The head is sacrosanct!!

SACROSANCT!!!

 

[G Mus]

Yet a tap to the guts gets one game

Or a poke if your name is Zorko

 

[ashep]

Luke Parker wants a refund.

 

[stefoid]

This is an extremely emotional and dramatic way to view the incident. In no ******* way was this an 'effective strategy'.

I bet you a dickton of dollars that this does not become a lot more regular or is seen as effective.

Agreed. 99% of players in that sitch would take the crunch (well, mini crunch from dalhaus) in the hope of getting the ball away legally, rather than give away the free.

 

[Giant Pete]

Yet a tap to the guts gets one game

Going for the ball is the key difference.

 

[citizen-erased]

The precedent has been set. I can't wait until AFL players now realize that this is now an effective strategy at protecting the space around you, and this sort of action becomes a lot more regular.

and giving away a free kick.....not so effective.

 

[MJ_Dogs]

Precedent set: its legal to kick a player in the head.

Blood on your hands AFL.

 

[Boxhead_31]

Kick someone in the face. That's a fine.
Tackle someone. That's a suspension

 

[LoungeLizard]

You chose a good name. What a load of bollocks.

If you were Tony Lockett leading, you would be in a marking contest. this was not a marking contest.

If you jumped to receive that handball and didn't put your leg out straight, there would have been no contact, because of gravity (it's this thing we have on our planet) Greene would have landed before Dalhaus got there. Of course he would have needed to twist around to face the right direction: much easier to plant your foot into another player to twist in mid air. Very impressive parkour move, but should not be on the footy field.

If you are so experienced how come you don't understand the concept of peripheral vision? Are you really saying because Greene was not directly looking at Dalhaus he was not aware of him?
No of course not. Because in the same sentence you say that he is protecting his space, as if that is any form of defence. It isn't, unless it was in a marking contest.

Go type in AFL biggest hits in google, have a look at blokes getting hit in similar situations, come back and tell us about their "peripheral vision"

 

[StevenwellerHFC]

Didn't deserve a suspension.

 

[W.C. Fry]

Why does every other player in the MRP report have "The player has no applicable record which impacts the penalty". But for Greene it says nothing.
He has already been done for misconduct this season, as well as striking. Surely he should be getting some extra loading for his bad record?

 

[Sweet Jesus]

So if you tackle a guy and his head hits the ground, you get rubbed out. But if you jump up and kick someone in the face, that's no worries.

Why?

 

[HairyO]

Kick someone in the face. That's a fine.
Tackle someone. That's a suspension

Or maybe it was decided that he didnt kick him in the face, because it was careless rather than intentional.

Tippett knocked himself out running in to Heath Shaw's knee in a marking contest. No penalty at all for Shaw - because he didnt knee him.

I think its appropriate. And the AFL should now clarify the rules explicitly if they do not want to ensure this already very uncommon thing doesnt happen again.