Trying to make sense of the tribunal

[BomberDog]

This week has confused me more than ever before.

1. Des Headland - how bad can an "attempted" strike look? This roundhouse swing was about as bad as I could imagine without connecting. Message from the appeals panel "we think this "attempted" charge is rubbish, so we encourage all players to challenge when booked on this one, you can count on us".

OH, apologies Henry Slattery. You'll have the benefit of this precedent going forward. You are just too polite.


2. The SIDE of Ablett's body was down the MIDDLE of Wirrrrrpunda. Not hip-to-hip and shoulder-to-shoulder. Look at the photo in the Herald. OH, bad luck Jamie Charman, you can go and stand with Henry Slattery and wipe away each others tears.


For the record, I think all 4 probably should have been rubbed out, but I think the appeals board is creating great confusion and frustrating/confounding fans/players/the people entering the reports with the decisions this week. They will just encourage players to contest more of the decisions, and then create a greater uproar when the pendulum swings the other way and they decide it is time to knock back a few appeals.

 

[PressureCooker]

Also note that a certain A. Lovett got three weeks for what was a jumper "tap" and Brent Guerra got the same punishment for almost decapitating Lewis Roberts-Thompson. What a joke.

 

[Longy413]

The biggest mistake you have made is actually trying to understand the MRP and the tribunal.

The system is seriously flawed and inconsistent. You're only going to give yourself an ulcer trying to understand or make sense of it.

 

[Philzsay]

I was looking forward to the new MRP and Tribunal when it was intoduced. I thought that with a clear and transparent system that once the bugs were ironed out that it would work well and would be predictable.

Boy, was I wrong..

Seriously in principal I like the idea of the ranking the various components and degrees of the charges. I thought it would bring some conistancy over the year. Wrong.

How could the AFL have stuffed this up? Is it really that difficult to get a fair and consisitant tribunal?

BTW I thought the Ablett incident was ok and would not have suspended him.

 

[Jaymin]

A much better system would be to just draw the penalties out of a hat.

 

[dougthelegend]

A much better system would be to just draw the penalties out of a hat.

I thought that's what they've been doing