No Oppo Supporters Tom Stewart's targeted KO'ing of Prestia - 4 week ban

[Sterge]

Some of you need to chill out, be better than geelong supporters.

We dont need to wish injuries on anyone or hope someone evens it up.

Just be content in the fact we win when it really matters.

Also the thread is about Stewart and Prestia

 

[Karp3_dm]

Well, seeing that you ask...

Stewart should have just accepted four weeks.

Character, perceived as good or otherwise should play no part in the sentence size.

If AFL are serious about head hits they need to severely penalise off the ball hits, regardless of outcome.

I hope Prestia is okay. That should be the primary concern

I am not a huge fan of Scott or Dangerfield..

Kudos to you mate, good and fair assessment

You have to be smoked up to your eyeballs on meth to be a huge fan of Dangerfield or Chris Scott

 

[tigs2010]

I don't believe it... a genuine Cats fan with a brain!

Too young to have had his first meth hit is really the only explanation.

 

[KJpie]

6 would have been more appropriate, missed the ball here AFL

 

[Tiges1229]

Right call imo

**** that should have been 6 weeks

 

[Grockadoc]

Cats fans fuming at the 4. They felt 3 was thenright call. ****ing imbeciles.

 

[CholEstrol]

Why didn't they just accept the 4 weeks at the start of proceedings out of respect to Dion. Quibbling over 1 game. Petty b.s. so they can get Stewart back 1 week sooner.

 

[_RT_]

Conscious devision to bump sounds like.an intentional act.

Hence the 'albeit split second' caveat

 

[beema limapep]

Will be booed for years.

Enjoy your legacy you premiershipless coward.

 

[Serenity_Now]

That they are debating 4 weeks as the maximum makes me sick. Should be minimum 4 to 6 weeks as the range with AFL QC arguing the upper bound.

Game is absolutely rooted

This is where the process was stuffed up by Christian. If he wasn’t going to grade it as intentional, he shouldn’t have graded it at all and just sent it to the tribunal for the AFL to decide what the range of suspension would be.

I’m good with it being 4 weeks, that was my initial reaction to seeing it, but no way should the argument have been between 3 or 4 weeks.

 

[beema limapep]

Why didn't they just accept the 4 weeks at the start of proceedings out of respect to Dion. Quibbling over 1 game. Petty b.s. so they can get Stewart back 1 week sooner.

PR. It was always 4. Come in at 3 and bump it to 4. Job done.

Everyone's a winner except the integrity of the game.

 

[Meteoric Rise]

If the degree of carelessness was high, why wasn't it intentional?

This is it. We will forever not know what the outcome could or would have been had the AFL applied the proper rigour to its arguments here.

From where I sit, like I think most people, 4 is the minimum acceptable penalty. My thought were 5-6 weeks was appropriate in the current context of head trauma in sport.

But this case exposes the clear weaknesses within the system. It is possible for a conflicted person - B Scott - to effectively limit the penalty applied to a star player his twin brother coaches within the current system, because:

- his conflict of interest is ignored, and

- his grading of the offence as careless and the Tribunal’s acceptance of this without question or scrutiny meant it was a very real factor in the penalty given.

 

[Dreamend]

4 weeks feels the low end of appropriate. It's the fact that it was the "worst case" scenario for Stewart in this situation is what leaves a bitter taste. That and the lack of intentional.

He chose to bump, you face the consequences, which is that you can end someone's career.

I'm in the school of thought that there was a direction to target Prestia physically but that it has gone completely **** up in execution... except it won them the game

 

[Drunken Wookie]

Minimum chips as predicted. Chairman gives the dictionary definition of intentional and then labels in careless. The good guy propaganda worked like a charm.

 

[tunksy]

Why didn't they just accept the 4 weeks at the start of proceedings out of respect to Dion. Quibbling over 1 game. Petty b.s. so they can get Stewart back 1 week sooner.

not very good guys, clearly

 

[AstuteTiger]

GEELONG star Tom Stewart has been handed a four-match ban by the Tribunal for his high hit on Dion Prestia

3

Dion Prestia

Age

33

Ht

175cm

Wt

84kg

Pos.

Mid

Career

Season

Last 5

D

24.1

5star

K

12.7

5star

HB

11.4

5star

M

3.1

3star

T

4.4

5star

CL

4.6

5star

D

21.2

5star

K

10.4

4star

HB

10.8

5star

M

2.4

3star

T

4.2

5star

CL

3.2

4star

D

12.8

4star

K

6.0

3star

HB

6.8

5star

M

3.2

4star

T

3.0

5star

CL

1.4

4star

.

 

[joelsyt]

Probably should have been 5 or 6 weeks, especially if the AFL are serious about head injuries, still 4 weeks is better than 3. Can’t believe Geelong even tried to get 3, what morons!

 

[Tiger_Of_Old]

Thats not going to happen. Not even once

Really.Look of the form of the scum we played on Sat.
Imagine the GF.

 

[richard parker]

Dion looked like he'd just survived a car accident. Should have been 6 minimum.

 

[Aristotle Pickett the3rd]

Ha ha ha @bullshite

 

[AstuteTiger]

You are kidding....

No it's an oldie but still relevant the way the umps and the AFL look after the scats

 

[beema limapep]

I'm done.

 

[tunksy]

Has there been any report as to how prestia is feeling? just hoping hes ok in the short and long term.

 

[austyn08]

Right call imo

My issue was the “call” was deliberated over ok or lower, there was no scope for the tribunal to look at 5-6 games

 

[smasha]

 

[tigersab]

What a Barry Crocker! Piss Poor. Should be the 6 weeks.