which decision was worse

[the_big_sav]

did both corey mckernan and chris grant's suspension deserve a week?

personally i think grant's did but corey's didnt

 

[flamethrower]

At least Corey was reported by an umpire. I was at that game against Geelong, and I thought he was in trouble.

Chris was cleared by all 3 umpires on the day and when the video was reviewed. He was cited by Ian Collins who was watching the game a few days later. The Bulldogs did not have time to mount a reasonable defense, and the case should never have gone to the tribunal.

The officiating umpire gave evidence at the tribunal that he had a perfect view on the day and that it warranted only a free kick, nothing else.

 

[celtic_pride]

did both corey mckernan and chris grant's suspension deserve a week?

personally i think grant's did but corey's didnt

I'd agree with that, C.Grant deserved his suspension for what he did to Nick Holland but Corey Mckernan was very unlucky for getting done on what is now a non-suspendable offence.
He probably deserves a retrospective brownlow in all honesty.

 

[Sedat!]

Chris was cleared by all 3 umpires on the day and when the video was reviewed. He was cited by Ian Collins who was watching the game a few days later. The Bulldogs did not have time to mount a reasonable defense, and the case should never have gone to the tribunal.

The officiating umpire gave evidence at the tribunal that he had a perfect view on the day and that it warranted only a free kick, nothing else.

Perfect summation of exactly what happened. Never before and never since has an AFL CEO ever laid a video charge. A farce. Collins is getting his own medicine back now.

 

[celtic_pride]

Perfect summation of exactly what happened. Never before and never since has an AFL CEO ever laid a video charge. A farce. Collins is getting his own medicine back now.

Still he's in charge of the (equally) most successful club in history whilst Grant plays for the 'Tragic' Bulldogs.

 

[Sedat!]

Still he's in charge of the (equally) most successful club in history whilst Grant plays for the 'Tragic' Bulldogs.

Sorry to get off topic. Celtic, that is exactly the problem with your club. You have been wallowing in the past and have forgotten to embrace the changing nature of the AFL over the last 10 years. Your club was truly visionary 20 years ago, but that arogant disregard to grow and adapt will see your club enter a sustained period of no success whatsoever. Who really gives a toss about what happened in a totally different competition, in a totally different era.

No team has a "tragic" history, even the Saints. Every team has a rich and colourful history, a few extra trophies in the cabinet of some clubs notwithstanding. I genuinely don't mind Carlton, but I hope that watching your club slide to oblivion for a few years will make you just a little more modest about any future success you have. Attitudes like yours are cut from the same cloth as that wonderful human being John Elliott. Now there's a guy who has reaped what he has sown.

 

[Leon]

'Tragic' Bulldogs.

I remember a famous Carlton person saying that once.

Whats he doing with himself these days anyway? Bankrupt and facing jail time for being corrupt or something?

 

[celtic_pride]

Sorry to get off topic. Celtic, that is exactly the problem with your club. You have been wallowing in the past and have forgotten to embrace the changing nature of the AFL over the last 10 years. Your club was truly visionary 20 years ago, but that arogant disregard to grow and adapt will see your club enter a sustained period of no success whatsoever. Who really gives a toss about what happened in a totally different competition, in a totally different era.

No team has a "tragic" history, even the Saints. Every team has a rich and colourful history, a few extra trophies in the cabinet of some clubs notwithstanding. I genuinely don't mind Carlton, but I hope that watching your club slide to oblivion for a few years will make you just a little more modest about any future success you have. Attitudes like yours are cut from the same cloth as that wonderful human being John Elliott. Now there's a guy who has reaped what he has sown.

I'm sick of all you Bulldog fans still blaming Ian Collins for Grant's suspension (missing out on the Brownlow)
His suspension was very must justified IMO, how were Collins to know at the time that it would cost Grant the Brownlow ?

 

[Leon]

I'm sick of all you Bulldog fans still blaming Ian Collins for Grant's suspension (missing out on the Brownlow)
His suspension was very must justified IMO, how were Collins to know at the time that it would cost Grant the Brownlow ?

I'm starting to wonder at this point if you have any idea of the circumstances in which Grant was denied the Brownlow

How was it justified? The three umpires in the match in the match concerned did not report Grant, deemed it only worthy of a free kick.

The video review did not think what Grant did warranted a tribunal appearance. Nick Holland, the man Grant struck, said there was nothing in it.

Yet good old Collo, for some reason, intervenes for the first, and only time, during his time at the AFL, and Grant gets suspended (and subsequently loses the Brownlow).

Yes, I cant see why Dogs fans should blame Collins. I mean the umpires thought it was nothing, the match review panel thought it was nothing, Nick Holland thought it was nothing, but hey, lets just smile as Collins intervenes for the first and only time to rob a club legend of a Brownlow.

Twit.