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

[Beerfish]

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

 

[sameolds33]

So Merrett was in the heat of the moment - guilty. Misses a match.

Adams, runs up to a player already being tackled, and flings him. But it’s not his fault and he may get off? Gotcha.

Would argue that the POTENTIAL for injury is the same

edit - lucky I got a screenshot seeing as Browne deleted it

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I don't understand why the sling offence is different just because there were other players also involved. Adams was the only one who made the tackle.

 

[Stopher]

So Merrett was in the heat of the moment - guilty. Misses a match.

Adams, runs up to a player already being tackled, and flings him. But it’s not his fault and he may get off? Gotcha.

Would argue that the POTENTIAL for injury is the same

edit - lucky I got a screenshot seeing as Browne deleted it

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By his reasoning, all 3 should be suspended then.

 

[DERO]

By his reasoning, all 3 should be suspended then.

I’m ok with it.

 

[HirdsTheWord]

just ludicrous really.

 

[Eleven 38]

Browne tweet is purely for bombers fans. Nothing surer to get comments than to piss off bombers fans, haha.

 

[StCicatriz]

just wanted to come in and say its complete bullshit this "potential to cause injury" we had ben long

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rubbed out for more week than guys who have literally broken the bones of our players.

it's just nuts.

 

[DallasCrane316]

Browne tweet is purely for bombers fans. Nothing surer to get comments than to piss off bombers fans, haha.

He’s actually turned off comments to all his tweets

 

[Eleven 38]

He’s actually turned off comments to all his tweets

Oh FFS, what a flog. Wants to have an opinion but not listen to others.

 

[DallasCrane316]

Caminiti was successful in getting his charge downgraded.

So in sunmary

• off the ball, high contact, concussion - 3 weeks.
• in the play, high contact, no injury - 1 week.

….what?

 

[Lance Uppercut]

So, you can't bump because you should tackle, but now even if you tackle you're liable to get suspended even if you cause no harm at all

 

[Highly Evolved]

This may be a silly question, but can we appeal again?

 

[Beerfish]

So, you can't bump because you should tackle, but now even if you tackle you're liable to get suspended even if you cause no harm at all

Yes that's correct.

 

[Bjchan13]

This may be a silly question, but can we appeal again?

I thought you could

 

[Vander18]

court of arbitration for sport...

Too soon

 

[Beerfish]

Can you take the Adams stuff to the non Essendon thread? Thanks!

 

[yodellinhank]

He'll be devo.

Are we not men?

 

[boncer34]

No idea how it stood at medium but ah well. Win some, lose some.

I'd be wary of slamming the KC for his arguments, I doubt what was posted in the blog was a word for word transcript

 

[jc37]

This is a ridiculous decision. I am happy he misses because he is a great player playing my team but he shouldnt be missing. Not sure what he was supposed to do. Easily the softest of these suspensions ive seen.

 

[Nuggs Bunny]

This is a ridiculous decision. I am happy he misses because he is a great player playing my team but he shouldnt be missing. Not sure what he was supposed to do. Easily the softest of these suspensions ive seen.

Well said

 

[Lore]

No idea how it stood at medium but ah well. Win some, lose some.

I'd be wary of slamming the KC for his arguments, I doubt what was posted in the blog was a word for word transcript

The quote in the AFL article is different but still not exhaustive. Would like to see something a bit more substantive but it's the AFL so we'll never get it

 

[Lore]

Wait they interviewed him about it?

Merrett: Ban 'extremely disappointing'

Zach Merrett will miss Essendon's Anzac Day clash.

www.essendonfc.com.au

 

[eth-dog]

Legal reps: Ben Ihle (Essendon) & Nick Pane (AFL).​

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Jurors: Jeff Gleeson (Tribunal chair), Stewart Loewe and Stephen Jurica.​

I know the AFL legal counsel as it turns out

 

[fairbump_playon]

I know the AFL legal counsel as it turns out

Thank god. I needed someone to blame for this.

 

[citizen-erased]

Wait they interviewed him about it?

Merrett: Ban 'extremely disappointing'

Zach Merrett will miss Essendon's Anzac Day clash.

www.essendonfc.com.au

That's fairly normal isnt it?

 

[Vander18]

Tribunal reasoning:

Zach Merrett's explanation of the tackle he applied to Tom Sparrow was honest and forthright. The difficulty for Merrett, however, is that by holding onto Sparrow's jumper - and in our view pulling him to the ground - combined with the force applied by Merrett around Sparrow's body with his left arm, there was a real risk of Sparrow's head colliding forcefully with the ground. A reasonable player in Merrett's position would have realised there was some vulnerability for Sparrow because his right arm was pinned, would've realised the tackle was both pulling and pushing in such a way that Sparrows head was driving towards the ground with force and that there was a real risk Sparrow wouldn't land entirely on Merrett.​

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For those reasons, we find this was a dangerous tackle.​

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As to impact, while there was no injury to Sparrow, the force with which Sparrow's head hit the ground was plain to see.​

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The potential for injury arose and the appropriate classification of impact is medium.​

David Zita via Twitter

Seems weird that to me that impact and potential for injury are correlated.

Seems to me that “impact” is an actual, observable thing. To some extent it’s measurable, based on outcome for “victim.”