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Which one affected you more?
The jaw was late season. I missed 2 games but would have missed 6. I lost a lot of weight as I like solid food.
No ongoing problems.
Concussion was ok but I had weird headaches and "vague" spells on and off for maybe 12 months. Plus there's obviously the longer term concern.
My point though is there have been incidents recently with Howe (for example) where Cripps displayed "concussion like symptoms but passed the in game test". That was a straight up punch to the head. Off the ball. 2 weeks.
I get that consequences matter but Brayshaw was up and around today and seems in reasonable spirits. He'll miss 3 games and would maybe miss 4-6 if the Dockers were still playing.
Lots of people with the "but he broke his jaw" comments. I'm just not sure that's so much worse and ultimately surely it's the action that needs to be punished....
There have been lots of punches thrown this year including the odd head shot. Minimal punishment. But if you flush one, which is luck as much as anything, you should be stoned in the town square.
Just lots of overkill for mine.
