Two weeks for this?

[im_a_lazy_sod]

How did Glass only get offered a week for both his hits. System is so inconsistent it's not even funny

 

[nussbuster]

Disgusting.

 

[benfica]

How did Glass only get offered a week for both his hits. System is so inconsistent it's not even funny

glass was low impact and fyfe's was medium which is a load of crap but what do you expect the mrp have a target on our backs

 

[Tatts22]

glass was low impact and fyfe's was medium which is a load of crap but what do you expect the mrp have a target on our backs

Low impact? Player ended up in hospital. What constitutes med/high impact?

 

[im_a_lazy_sod]

Low impact? Player ended up in hospital. What constitutes med/high impact?

I don't even know any more. The glass one is even more confusing because they haven't graded either incident on intent or damage done.

I wouldn't have minded as much if the precedent hadn't already been set with the Fyfe incident. As usual, it's our players that are made examples of (Johnson 2007, Fyfe recently, Crowley for pinching etc)

 

[benfica]

Low impact? Player ended up in hospital. What constitutes med/high impact?

no idea ask the idiots that run the MRP cause thats what it said on the report glass low impact and fyfe's was medium

 

[Seadog]

Low impact? Player ended up in hospital. What constitutes med/high impact?

He went to hospital for a precautionary scan, wasn't on a stretcher or anything. Can only assume Port did us a favour with their medical report.

 

[Smeg Head]

Freo frothers obviously too enraged to realise he didn't collect Wingard in the head. Fyfe did, blame the AFL for their rule change to cover their arses on head clashes.

 

[benfica]

Freo frothers obviously too enraged to realise he didn't collect Wingard in the head. Fyfe did, blame the AFL for their rule change to cover their arses on head clashes.

take your glasses off he deserved at least 2 weeks and you know it if this was a freo player it would have been 4 weeks and history tells us that

 

[Smeg Head]

take your glasses off he deserved at least 2 weeks and you know it if this was a freo player it would have been 4 weeks and history tells us that

Please provide evidence of a similar incident causing a Freo player to get rubbed out for 4 weeks then.

 

[Rob]

Freo frothers obviously too enraged to realise he didn't collect Wingard in the head. Fyfe did, blame the AFL for their rule change to cover their arses on head clashes.

I was more concerned how Glass' hit could be ruled anything other than intentional. He had eyes for the man in a marking contest. His clear intention was to take Wingard out. Reckless? WTF

 

[WCErevival]

I was more concerned how Glass' hit could be ruled anything other than intentional. He had eyes for the man in a marking contest. His clear intention was to take Wingard out. Reckless? WTF

He actually had his eyes on the ball for most of its flight until the last second then it was too late.

 

[Rob]

He actually had his eyes on the ball for most of its flight until the last second then it was too late.

Come on, when you heard he was only getting a week if he pleads guilty, your reaction must have been something like 'start the car!!!!!!!'. Remarkably, if not for carryover points he could have accepted a reprimand.

They are deadset space cadets.

 

[WCErevival]

Come on, when you heard he was only getting a week if he pleads guilty, your reaction must have been something like 'start the car!!!!!!!'. Remarkably, if not for carryover points he could have accepted a reprimand.

They are deadset space cadets.

TBH I thought it just looked a lot worse live than it was. When I watched the footage again he was watching the ball going for the spoil and never hit Wingards head. If Wingard never went to hospital for a check up it wouldn't even be a big deal.

 

[MadMac]

Please provide evidence of a similar incident causing a Freo player to get rubbed out for 4 weeks then.

Johnson got 4 weeks for less than what Glass did in 2007. CBF googling it but you can if you want.

 

[SydCrow]

Douglas straight to the tribunal.

http://www.afc.com.au/news/2014-04-21/mrp

 

[Smeg Head]

Johnson got 4 weeks for less than what Glass did in 2007. CBF googling it but you can if you want.

Just did, said he hit Lachie Hansen flush in the face with his hip. There is the difference for you, got him high when the AFL started to crack down on any hits to the head. Also said Stokes got the same penalty, the same week for hitting Cassisi in the head when he was over the ball. So Johnson did get a fair penalty as evidenced by Stokes getting the same penalty at the same time.

Edit: It seems they also got extra time by contesting and losing. So you are utterly wrong, Johnson got more for a worse hit to the face AND losing his contest of the charge at the tribunal.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arc...-cats-see-lawyer/story-e6frg7mx-1111113130603

 

[HFF]

Rubbish.

Glass should have seen 4, easily.

 

[Quinz]

Come on, when you heard he was only getting a week if he pleads guilty, your reaction must have been something like 'start the car!!!!!!!'. Remarkably, if not for carryover points he could have accepted a reprimand.

They are deadset space cadets.

Wasn't even worth a reprimand. Body hit that was a little late. I liked it.

The game is too quick to rub people out. Don't even get started on the Thompson one

 

[Hollow Knight]

Incredible to think that only carryover points stopped Glass from getting off with a reprimand.

The Tribunal is sitting anyway, maybe the AFL should challenge this one.

 

[go_the_dockers]

Incredible to think that only carryover points stopped Glass from getting off with a reprimand.

The Tribunal is sitting anyway, maybe the AFL should challenge this one.

I didn't realise this, and it makes it so much worse. Lucky for Glass Wingard didn't fall down and hit his head and get concussion otherwise he would have got 4 weeks.

Surely the intent and force delivered should matter more than the injury.

 

[Ported]

I didn't realise this, and it makes it so much worse. Lucky for Glass Wingard didn't fall down and hit his head and get concussion otherwise he would have got 4 weeks.

Surely the intent and force delivered should matter more than the injury.

Exactly. If one function of the MRP is to make the game safer and fairer they should be working to curb dangerous behaviour, not just jerk their knee every time a player gets concussed.

 

[Oneiros]

Good to see no hysterical overreaction from the tribunal for a change on the Glass decision. Liked the aggression with the game on the line, made sure to make body contact only, no head. People are making too much of the going to hospital thing; he wasn't hospitalised, he was just given a quick check to make sure the young fella hadn't suffered ill-effects, and was proved to be okay. Wingard is a tough kid, stop the freak out people.

If we want to know why the game is going soft, it is because every time we have a bit of hard play supporters of every other team have a collective freak-out wanting to see some other team's player rubbed out for weeks to get an advantage. It's ludicrous.

Head is sacrosanct, body is fair game. If Glass didn't get the head, and the medical reports and footage show this, then let's get on with it.

 

[ep2018]

Port Adelaide must have provided a favourable medical report.

 

[Xsess]

It was a good hard contest with Glass charging back with the flight. Wingard could have protected himself but didn't - won the game for his team. Goodstuff all round. In the good old days (pre Dimitreo) we wouldn't even be talking about this.