MRP / Trib. Tom Lynch -How many?

[Strange Cat]

Isn't that incentivising one of them to throw the bout?

The Jake Paul method!!

 

[dees arent rabble]

12 weeks minimum.

Absolute weak gutted dog of a bloke
Cheap shot

He's no different to the weak gutted dog Barry hall

 

[MisterMarcus]

If they don't make the finals something has to give, I agree with you though.

He's old and injury-prone, doesn't do much anymore unless it's delivered to him on a platter, and is a poor leader for young players with all his sooking and aggro.

Why would GC want him?

 

[maskmcgee]

I feel like the McAdam suspension is relevant here. It was determined to be 'severe' based on the potential to cause injury, despite it not causing any injury and it being a football act. The potential here is, legitimately, a brain injury or death.

Severe, intentional, high contact. Looking at a very long stint here if the AFL had any integrity.

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Adelaide's legal team argued McAdam's sanction, handed down by the Tribunal on Tuesday night, was an "error in law" with a grading that was "manifestly excessive".

They contended the grading of 'severe' impact should have been downgraded to 'low' and too much weight was assigned to the potential to cause injury.

However, the Appeals Board disagreed, saying the penalty for the brutal hit would stand.

"The potential for injury is clearly a significant matter … the first principle in the listed guidelines is to prioritise the health and safety of players.

"There is no limitation on how much weight should be placed on any of the relevant considerations. It was open to the Tribunal to place great weight (on potential for injury) in our view."

So yes it appears the actual impact is totally irrelevant.

 

[LukeParkerno1]

He's old and injury-prone, doesn't do much anymore unless it's delivered to him on a platter, and is a poor leader for young players with all his sooking and aggro.

Why would GC want him?

The question may well be is that group of GC forward you named going to take them from 10th to a top4/winning. I don't know the answer but if the answer is maybe not they may punt on Lynch for a year or two

 

[Hoops]

Lynch is the biggest wanna-be tough guy in the league. Can dish it out but can't take it. Leads the league in pushing opponents heads into the turf.

Yeah, but the doggie is so cuuuute

 

[JackFlash]

Shutup with your skynews crap.

Well they are, i don't watch SKY news anyway, but don't tell me the AFL are not mad woke! They will throw the book at Lynch.

 

[Art Vandelay_]

I wouldn’t call it a “kick” more of a drag but injured player none the less.

Grub.

This should be indefensible but 13 pages in suggests some are making a feeble effort to do so.

 

[benbrown]

Can we toss an extra 4 weeks on for the intent

 

[Cyclonus]

Yeah, but the doggie is so cuuuute
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Mate, he's trying to strangle the dog with that scarf.

 

[Mutineer]

LOL

 

[Saint12]

If you saw the game you wouldn't be shocked at all. Umpiring of Lynch was very inconsistent.

Not according to Cornes and King this morning

 

[Mutineer]

If you saw the game you wouldn't be shocked at all. Umpiring of Lynch was very inconsistent.

What a load of tosh, Jordan Butts obliterated him, never gave him a sniff all day.

 

[SplintWhisky]

We had a player recently get three weeks but then they realised it was an accident so it was changed to zero.

Four or five weeks is saying that it's fine, it's just a normal football action.

This is not a football action, it's an assault pure and simple. 8 weeks minimum. Hall's roundhouse on Staker was 20 years, are we saying that we're no better than back then?

Action doesn't matter now. It is all about the outcome and since there was no concussion it wont be more than 6.

Despite what people think about the action vs Hall, the fact he didnt hit him the jaw will be what will save him.

It won't be more than Gaff on Brayshaw.

 

[Outback Footy]

If Paul Curtis gets 3 weeks for a legitimate tackling attempt, you can't give anything less than 4 weeks for punching an opponent in the head behind play when said opponent isn't even looking.

How many for Frances' gut punch on Lachie Bramble on friday night then?

 

[SplintWhisky]

Nah .. that was Shane McAdam on Jacob Wehr .. a front on bump (on the ball)

Wehr did go through HIA protocols but played out the game

Jeff Geishen stated - "a reasonably prudent player would have recognized the considerable risk of injury to Wehr and that the potential for serious injury was very high"

McAdam got 3 weeks

Yeah but that is my point though. McAdam got the potential to cause injury but Pickett jumped off the ground and hit Smith in the same round but didnt get the "potential to cause injury."

 

[Grumpyshades]

waits for the AFL to justify a reduced sentence because he didn't really connect

 

[PeterSalt]

Yeah but that is my point though. McAdam got the potential to cause injury but Pickett jumped off the ground and hit Smith in the same round but didnt get the "potential to cause injury."

Fair enough. I personally never really understood how they justified the grading of Pickett's incident, it always looked worse to me than McAdam's, taking into account the outcomes at the time

Indirectly that incident was pretty much the beginning of the end for McAdam at Adelaide. And looking at how he's going at Melbourne you mount an argument for the end of his career

 

[SplintWhisky]

Fair enough. I personally never really understood how they justified the grading of Pickett's incident, it always looked worse to me than McAdam's, taking into account the outcomes at the time

Indirectly that incident was pretty much the beginning of the end for McAdam at Adelaide. And looking at how he's going at Melbourne you mount an argument for the end of his career

That is the odd thing though. The potential to cause injury for some wacky and crazy reason only applies to accidents

 

[Skeppersap]

Aristotle valiantly defending Lynch. LOL

Lynch should get extra weeks for leading the children in Richmond's first 18 astray. First Balta off the field and now Lynch on the field

He defends Lynch as strongly as he defends terrorist organisations!

 

[RonnieRaven]

6 weeks

 

[brutus76]

On the grading it's 2-3

If you utlise the inherent "deliberate intent" wording he clearly wanted it to be Barry Hall v Brent Staker = 4 to 6

 

[SuperFastMonk]

Probably 4. Club should've seeked clarification on umpiring (which is genuinely shit, and worse than others despite what some think, Thillthorpe got frees for less holding in the same match) around him in the weeks beforehand, rather than letting the hot-headed Lynch do a bad act. People on social media enjoy the feeling outrage gives them though

 

[MagpieJo]

Maybe if the scumpires stopped the behind play bullshit he doesn’t loose his cool! Give him a medal! Besides, the way the tigers are travelling, a four week holiday is a blessing!

 

[Cyclonus]

Maybe if the scumpires stopped the behind play bullshit he doesn’t loose his cool! Give him a medal! Besides, the way the tigers are travelling, a four week holiday is a blessing!

There was no "behind play bullshit", or it has not been proven to exist.