AFL Player # 7: Indefatigable Zach Merrett (c) - 5 time Crichton Medallist has a baby! 🏅🏅🏅🏅🏅🐣

[Beerfish]

Contract Status: Unrestricted Free Agent 2027
My Boy Draft 2024: Pick 10, I Remember Bluey

 

[scythe]

When was the last time we were this invested in a tribunal?

Redman's thread was quite entertaining at the time, as I recall.

 

[TheGrizz]

Ihle (Essendon): Sparrow is trying to burst through the front-on tackle. The Tribunal should ask: Who is the prime mover in the direction of Sparrow tipping forward? In my submission, it is Sparrow trying to free himself of Merrett's grip.​

Not a great submission, Sparrow is trying to back out of the tackle from what I saw.

 

[Lore]

Ihle (Essendon): We're not disputing Sparrow's head made contact with the turf ... what we're saying is that this was not a dangerous tackle because it was not unreasonable in the circumstances.​

 

[Lore]

Ihle (Essendon): The potential to cause injury is not hypothetical to the point of abstraction. It must be the potential of injury in the context of this tackle.​

 

[faible]

court of arbitration for sport...

Never heard of it.

 

[TheGrizz]

Ihle (Essendon): We're not disputing Sparrow's head made contact with the turf ... what we're saying is that this was not a dangerous tackle because it was not unreasonable in the circumstances.​

Again, weird submission.

First contact is clearly landing on Merretts body. Contact with the ground was secondary

 

[Lore]

Pane (AFL) says Merrett's evidence is not consistent with Ihle's argument that Merrett was merely holding on, nor consistent with the argument Merrett's major force was with his left arm.
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[TheGrizz]

Pane (AFL) says Merrett's evidence is not consistent with Ihle's argument that Merrett was merely holding on, nor consistent with the argument Merrett's major force was with his left arm.​

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I hope it's no win, no fee

 

[Lore]

The Tribunal is now deliberating.
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[DapperDon]

Sounds like we are ****ing this up by not getting our stories correct

 

[justlookingaround]

 

[Lore]

I hope it's no win, no fee

Can fail on this one and then contest the impact, it's a two-part play

 

[Schnitzengruben]

Would've preferred Dennis Denuto over this bloke.

 

[Alberto_Magnifico]

Would've preferred Dennis Denuto over this bloke.

Jackie Chiles for mine

 

[Beerfish]

Would the representation be cotery provided by any chance?

 

[Hamez]

Doesn’t sound promising

 

[Old Campaigner]

It’ll be funny when Adams’ lawyer stands up and says “I mean, cmon” and he gets off with a fine

 

[fairbump_playon]

Will we though, and if so, is that a bad thing?

Players are given far more time to dispose of the ball these days. It's pretty quickly clear when a player is unlikely to slip a tackle, why give them more time to not slip the tackle which escalates the situation because the tackler feels like they need to bring the player to ground just in case. If they want to limit the opportunities for dangerous tackles, then calling a ball up and quickly throwing it up is likely going to be better than waiting around for them to either get dumped or still have to do a ball up.

You may just be thinking about the times the end result is currently a ball up. Easy to say in hindsight that blowing the whistle earlier was a good idea.

I reckon the early whistle earlier will also catch a lot of instances where the ball was about to spill, even though it seemed unlikely.

 

[DapperDon]

It’ll be funny when Adams’ lawyer stands up and says “I mean, cmon” and he gets off with a fine

 

[faible]

You may just be thinking about the times the end result is currently a ball up. Easy to say in hindsight that blowing the whistle earlier was a good idea.

I reckon the early whistle earlier will also catch a lot of instances where the ball was about to spill, even though it seemed unlikely.

I honestly don't think we see the ball spill all that often, once it's under a pack or a player is properly held then it rarely pops out. Which means we're holding up the game to watch players do... nothing.

I'd rather a quicker ball up call, followed by a quicker actual ball thrown up with the whole ruck nomination thing scrapped.

 

[Beerfish]

I love the way they pretend to deliberate

 

[Alberto_Magnifico]

Would the representation be cotery provided by any chance?

Cotery is such a foreign word in my day to day life, for some reason it makes me think of those little frilly ankle socks

 

[Beerfish]

Cotery is such a foreign word in my day to day life, for some reason it makes me think of those little frilly ankle socks

It makes me think of a coat shop.

 

[Lore]

I honestly don't think we see the ball spill all that often, once it's under a pack or a player is properly held then it rarely pops out. Which means we're holding up the game to watch players do... nothing.

I'd rather a quicker ball up call, followed by a quicker actual ball thrown up with the whole ruck nomination thing scrapped.

gets dropped a lot, which used to be incorrect disposal

 

[Alberto_Magnifico]

It makes me think of a coat shop.

Yeh little frilly coats