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Neville Bruns I am assumingWhich one?
The fact that AFL does NOT have a send off rule is one of the more bizarre rules in professional sports.He'll get 3 weeks and one more for media hysterics. (Hello Kane Cornes) Red cards and send-offs are insane and achieve nothing. How he can get a fair hearing now after what was said by the worst football commentator of all time is beyond me? He will plead guilty, we all saw it, he will get a penalty, he knows this, but this was not an Andrew Gaff or Barry Hall king hit. Corne's mad comments this morning should get Stewart a 2-week discount? We've gone 150 years without send offs and this incident was not good, but you cannot crucify the guy before any Tribunal decision is made?
Cornes is a complete dropkick. You will never be able to satisfy footy fans who look at an incident and say, "well how can that be a red card, sin bin or game send off and look at another incident and why is that not." Our game moves too fast for yet another review. You have 36 players running around for two hours banging and crashing into each other, sometimes with a split-second reaction. Sometimes they make mistakes. They do a great job preventing these incidents from happening every game. Stewart will get 3 weeks with another one added due to media hysterics.
Reminds me of the time I intentionally ran over one of the apprentices with the forklift and then had the courage to put it out of my mind and finish the shift.Well they had Riewoldt doing some cringeworthy poem about Trevor Barker before I gave up and switched off, so it wasn't like they didn't have time to seriously dissect the incident.
Of course I'm biased, but as far as I'm concerned, Stewart's ability to put the incident far enough out of his mind to still play a blinder and help the team win an absolute crucial game was definitely worth discussing.
Always amusing to see BF posters trying to use criminal slang - 'dog' - when they get hysterical.
Dog act - an action seen as treacherous, cowardly or unacceptable.
Seems pretty fitting in this instance to me.
Nice postHe'll get 3 weeks and one more for media hysterics. (Hello Kane Cornes) Red cards and send-offs are insane and achieve nothing. How he can get a fair hearing now after what was said by the worst football commentator of all time is beyond me? He will plead guilty, we all saw it, he will get a penalty, he knows this, but this was not an Andrew Gaff or Barry Hall king hit. Corne's mad comments this morning should get Stewart a 2-week discount? We've gone 150 years without send offs and this incident was not good, but you cannot crucify the guy before any Tribunal decision is made?
Cornes is a complete dropkick. You will never be able to satisfy footy fans who look at an incident and say, "well how can that be a red card, sin bin or game send off and look at another incident and why is that not." Our game moves too fast for yet another review. You have 36 players running around for two hours banging and crashing into each other, sometimes with a split-second reaction. Sometimes they make mistakes. They do a great job preventing these incidents from happening every game. Stewart will get 3 weeks with another one added due to media hysterics.
Gee thanks for that pearl of wisdomIt's a bump that got a player high.
Yup - Dion certainly at some fault too - and sucked in Tigers - sfellow…People need to stop saying he ran passed the ball. He came up to compete with Prestia, who sensed him coming and knocked the ball away from them. Stewart can't suddenly move 5m back and sideways and contest the ball.
He then chose to bump to block Prestia running on. That's what all defenders do in this situation.
He was too forceful but watch any game from your own side and you'll see the same scenario over and over again.
Prestia didn't help himself by continuing to watch the ball and not bracing for any contact and unfortunately being shorter he dropped right in to Stewart's shoulder when I'm sure Stewart was expecting shoulder or body/shoulder contact.
It's an incredible crude and forceful accident that you rightly don't get away with these days but it looked a lot worse than it was.
In the current age Milburn would not have done what he did.Milburn's would get a life ban in the current age..
Delusional one eyed Cats supporterNo doubt this is sickening to watch, But clearly an over reaction by many. Dog act? Seriously? Chose to bump and got him high so looking at 2 -3. For those asking for 4-6, at what point do you think Stewart commits to the bump? 2m away? How much higher is prestia’s head at that point? He drops a foot and unfortunately Stewart lands flush on his jaw. Poor choice to bump and very unfortunate incident in a contact sport. But your kidding yourself if you think Stewart wanted to take him out and planned that. This is a great example of why some jurisdictions around the world don’t allow slow motion replay in court cases.
... but if he did..In the current age Milburn would not have done what he did.
Players play to the rules of the era they play in.
Had the AFL a send off rule rule, Stewart would not have had it enforced on him. There wasnt even a free kick or stop in play..The fact that AFL does NOT have a send off rule is one of the more bizarre rules in professional sports.
Yesterday‘s incident just exposes that.
and as for the media, all I’m seeing today is “Toms a great guy” and “he was so upset” and “such mental strength to play out the game in the way he did”.
And I agree to a point, it was a horrible action, doesn’t make him a horrible person.
But the penalty is for the action, not the person.
Had the AFL a send off rule rule, Stewart would not have had it enforced on him. There wasnt even a free kick or stop in play..
Neville Bruns I am assuming
He'll get 3 weeks and one more for media hysterics. (Hello Kane Cornes) Red cards and send-offs are insane and achieve nothing. How he can get a fair hearing now after what was said by the worst football commentator of all time is beyond me? He will plead guilty, we all saw it, he will get a penalty, he knows this, but this was not an Andrew Gaff or Barry Hall king hit. Corne's mad comments this morning should get Stewart a 2-week discount? We've gone 150 years without send offs and this incident was not good, but you cannot crucify the guy before any Tribunal decision is made?
Cornes is a complete dropkick. You will never be able to satisfy footy fans who look at an incident and say, "well how can that be a red card, sin bin or game send off and look at another incident and why is that not." Our game moves too fast for yet another review. You have 36 players running around for two hours banging and crashing into each other, sometimes with a split-second reaction. Sometimes they make mistakes. They do a great job preventing these incidents from happening every game. Stewart will get 3 weeks with another one added due to media hysterics.
Was there? That is even worse of the umpires then as they were aware of the incident.There was a free kick? What are you on about? And the fact there wasn't a stop in play is actually part of the discussion, play should have been stopped as the ball went over a clearly concussed players head.
Further, in this send off rule type thing, I imagine these incidents would be reviewed and dog shotting someone in the head would have seen Stewart sent off in review. I doubt umpires would be given the right to straight up send players off without review.
Contrition or not the league need to drop the hammer on this behaviour.
Four weeks is the absolute minimum, six seems more appropriate.