Tribunal Joke

[The Purple Jesus]

What a disgrace. 2 weeks for Ballas. Absolute f...ing joke

 

[freodog]

They are morons for challenging it.

 

[Sman-21]

not really any head contact most of the force was taken on shoulder maybe just scraped his head slightly but its pretty straightforward if a guy has his head down over the ball do not ever attemt to bump just tackle them.

 

[Mundy]

What a disgrace. 2 weeks for Ballas. Absolute f...ing joke

I dont think so, contact was front on, forceful and wreckless. If you want to be angry at someone/thing, blame the club. Dumbshit call to challenge.

 

[The Night Shift]

No hangover points at least, but he has a record...
I like the way he goes about it but he may need to temper his playing style with some controlled aggression. Now he has a chance to take that on board....

 

[Freo Blood]

I thought it was a joke of a decision initially but have watched the vid in slo mo and it seems a fair enough decision.

Picken is reaching for the ball and he turned his body head at the last minute to protect himself and copped it in the neck shoulder region. Balla did not go the ball and had made the decision to bump some time before passing/ignoring the ball. Probably looks worse in slo mo and it is only a split second and clumsy decision by balla but initial grading was fair in my view.

He also retains 50 pts carryover so only wiped off 37.5 pts in exchange for the extra week now.

 

[The Night Shift]

oh, well that sucks. I would've thought you wouldn't have carry over because he copped the full suspension.....

 

[IbbosBFF]

hmmm

Wont play against Melbourne now, if he played he probably would have got the mighty defender Paul Johnson and kicked a bag.

 

[dockertor]

He also retains 50 pts carry over so only wiped off 37.5 pts in exchange for the extra week now.

I thought it would be less than that, But given the way Ballas goes about it they might be a handy 37.5 points in future seasons. Losing a player for a week this season makes no difference.

 

[Side Bet]

hmmm

Wont play against Melbourne now, if he played he probably would have got the mighty defender Paul Johnson and kicked a bag.

I'd pay extra to see that

 

[Puregold]

We seem to always get picked on. From Johnson's front on contact a few years ago to the disgrace of Soloman's report last year. 8 weeks for Ling?? He should of been given the Order of Australia

 

[JimDocker]

I don't believe he could have done any more than he did.

He bent his knees, got low to the ground and bumped his opponent's shoulder.

I have watched the video countless times now and I have yet to see any evidence of contact to the head apart from the player grabbing his head, which half the players in the comp do now.

I am more annoyed at this decision than a lot of others.

Terrible decision.
I believe the club were right to challenge and although he has given away some silly free kicks and may need to look at altering his game slightly, this incident was just good footy.

 

[DockerShocker]

good on the club for challenging
terrible decision by the tribunal

 

[332docker]

The doggies player should get 50m penalty for his hollywood acting.

I'm sick of seeing players play for free's and the umpires falling for it.

 

[DockerLand1]

The doggies player should get 50m penalty for his hollywood acting.

I'm sick of seeing players play for free's and the umpires falling for it.

Happened right in front of me at the match and he went down like he was shot in the head. Free kick awarded and..................... It's a MIRACLE!

Straight back up to take his kick We all know that he was not hit directly in the head, If there was any contact it was slight and incidental.

Two weeks? A Disgrace.

How many cheap shots have the young Freo players taken this year without so much as a free kick being awarded? Plenty!