Autopsy AFL 2024 Round 2 - Swans v Bombers Sat March 23rd 7:30pm AEDT (SCG)

Who will win and by how much?

  • Swans by a goal or less

    Votes: 4 7.3%
  • Bombers by a goal or less

    Votes: 1 1.8%
  • Swans by 7 - 20

    Votes: 17 30.9%
  • Bombers by 7 - 20

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Swans by a lot

    Votes: 33 60.0%
  • Bombers by a lot

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Draw

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Total voters
    55
  • Poll closed .

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If you’re going to put yourself in harms way by cutting across someone who’s about to mark a ball that’s been kicked to him on the lead, you have to take a heap of responsibility for what happens to you as a result of that choice.

If you’re coming at him from the side and he’s got eyes for the ball (as Wright did) he’s got to be able to protect himself from being cleaned up, by turning his body at the last second.

The only options for Wright to avoid that contact were
A: pull out of a marking contest for a ball that’s kicked to him, which he has every right to contest, or
B: continue going at the ball and leave yourself wide open to being cleaned up by not turning your body at the last moment, if the other guy gets to it a fraction earlier.

This will become a non-contact sport if all this continues.

Bumping is basically out.

Smothering is now high risk.

Now just going for a mark puts you at risk of being suspended for weeks, if this ends that way.
 
Bombers disrupting Swans going forward very well. Filling in spaces.

Then, scoring on the break.

I reckon there is a Swans skill edge, and it will probably prevail ultimately. But bombers having a good crack.

No surprise with Langfords goal kicking. He's done this type of stuff before.
 
Still dodging the question, if you put a knee in someone's head in a marking contest is it a free kick?

You're refusing to answer because it's not, and that destroys your position. So continuing to not acknowledge that fact just proves I'm right.
A knee to the head in a marking contest generally gets wrongly ignored as it 'ruins the magic of taking a hanger'.

If a defender spoils from behind and catches the forward in the side of the head, it's paid as a free kick.

Show me where in the rule book it says that high contact does not apply in a marking contest.
 
Of course he was. He would have marked it comfortably had Cunningham not cut across.

Imagine the outrage if he pulled out of the contest of a ball that was kicked to him on the lead!?
He did. If he was contesting he would have had his arms extended. He pulled out of competing for the ball, tucked them in and collided with the other player.
It was reckless.
It was high.
It was severe impact.
He was off the ground.

What were his other options? To go for the ball, not leave the ground or to try and minimise impact.
 

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Still dodging the question, if you put a knee in someone's head in a marking contest is it a free kick?

You're refusing to answer because it's not, and that destroys your position. So continuing to not acknowledge that fact just proves I'm right.
Because one happens in the act of at least attempting a mark. Wright didn't do that.
 
Lot of Essendon fans in here vehemently defending a vfl standard forward who would improve their team if he weren’t playing

VFL or not ,you could use him to be fair.
 
Max King got a week for something that wasn't as bad as what Wright did.

He should be getting about 3 weeks if the MRO is consistent but that would be asking too much.

He will probably just get let off with a fine.

thats probably a fair assessment

i didn't think max deserved a week though, but since he did, can't see Pete getting nothing.
 

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Autopsy AFL 2024 Round 2 - Swans v Bombers Sat March 23rd 7:30pm AEDT (SCG)

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