MRP / Trib. AFL 2nd Preliminary Final findings - Kelly and Podsiadly cleared

[topic97]

Re: Podsiadly's bump on Adam Selwood

A fine??

I would imagine if they cite him for it they will downgrade the charge to a fine.
Thats my take on it anyway.
But then who knows, they might give him 3 weeks too

Having said that I am putting my bets on no reports from the MRP this week.
The AFL would cop a pretty severe backlash if any player gets rubbed out for any incident over last weekend.

 

[Turbocat]

Re: Pods possible Report

Not sure if Jesse is a boy or a girl but whatever gender it is, it needs to be admonished for such muckraking on grand-final eve. The only incident worthy of a mention is the Lee Brown one where he copped Lewis very high and spun him into a cartwheel due to the head-high contact.

"It" has a history of making very poor calls and this one seems to be a directive from the backrooms of the Westpac Centre based on fear factor.

Flog journalism.

http://about.theage.com.au/view_profile.php?intid=1357

 

[RogersResults]

Re: Podsiadly's bump on Adam Selwood

The speculation on the Podsiadly 'incident' is what commercial 'news' does as part of its business model. If there is no 'news' manufacture some.

However, the AFL is also a business selling a product. Without knowing just how independent the match revue panel is I would suspect that just as with the poker machine reforms, commercial interests within and beyond the AFL will come into play.

What may be weighed up outside of the MRP will be questions of how the football public's perception of fairness and legitimacy of the AFL 'product' could be compromised by any decisions made in regard to the suspension of a player before a Grand Final especially for an action long deemed as part of the game.

 

[Geelong_Bisons_#36]

Re: Podsiadly's bump on Adam Selwood

There was nothing in that bump. Just a good solid hit.

Just like Leigh Brown's ripper on Lewis on Friday night, it was just a body clash, where unsurprisingly the smaller man came off 2nd best. It wasn't high, he just had the wind knocked out of him. Can't go around suspending people for that.

Don't worry, this won't even get looked at. I like the J-Pod and it would be the worst MRP decision in history if he can't play on Saturday.

 

[LifeSpan-Void]

Re: Podsiadly's bump on Adam Selwood

IT WAS GASTRO, YOU ALL SAW IT! NOBODY CAN PROVE NOTHIN'!

Sheesh.

 

[MC Extra Dollop]

Re: Podsiadly's bump on Adam Selwood

I would imagine if they cite him for it they will downgrade the charge to a fine.
Thats my take on it anyway.
But then who knows, they might give him 3 weeks too

Having said that I am putting my bets on no reports from the MRP this week.
The AFL would cop a pretty severe backlash if any player gets rubbed out for any incident over last weekend.

You don't get find for rough conduct. You either get suspended, or you don't. That's what I'm getting at.

 

[the distributer]

Re: Podsiadly's bump on Adam Selwood

The article is written by Jessie Hogan who has got about 3 calls right all season.

You Pie flogs are grasping at straws if you think Pods will be suspended for that....signs of desperation in my book. Watch the slo mo....its a good fair hard bump...and acknowledged so by Selwood who advised the medical staff accordingly ( Please note Guerra!! ya germ! )

If you are the champion unit you Pie supporters say you are you should want Geelong at absolute top strength to shut up the naysayers who say you have shot your bolt.

The desperate hope that Geelong will be weakened says plenty.

Which Pie flogs want him suspended?, 95% of Collingwood fans have said he has nothing to worry about/ or should be let go due to there being a GF on the line, there's nothing to worry about.

 

[topic97]

Re: Podsiadly's bump on Adam Selwood

IT WAS GASTRO, YOU ALL SAW IT! NOBODY CAN PROVE NOTHIN'!

Sheesh.

They could check his undies......

You don't get find for rough conduct. You either get suspended, or you don't. That's what I'm getting at.

Who knows, perhaps they will make up their own special fine!!
In all seriousness though, I get what your saying.

 

[nohairandfair]

Re: Pods possible Report

http://about.theage.com.au/view_profile.php?intid=1357

hmmm... still very difficult to make a call.

 

[Badtemperedbadger]

Re: Podsiadly's bump on Adam Selwood

There was nothing in that bump. Just a good solid hit.

Just like Leigh Brown's ripper on Lewis on Friday night, it was just a body clash, where unsurprisingly the smaller man came off 2nd best. It wasn't high, he just had the wind knocked out of him. Can't go around suspending people for that.

Don't worry, this won't even get looked at. I like the J-Pod and it would be the worst MRP decision in history if he can't play on Saturday.

Agree totally, I have now had a look at it in slow mo, frame by frame and it is an absolutley legitamite bump.

What actually happens as with any forecable contact is Selwoods head whips back towards Pods shoulder, so it is actually Selwoods head contacting piods shoulder not vice versa.

faid=s dinkum J. Hogan get a grip and report the facts not just make up sensational garbage, pods will be fine.

As for derm calling Keyy's knee contacting Keer "unsavoury", please Dermie that is your middle name.
Every body has a right to an opinion but it gets my goat when twits like Brereton, who let's face it were snipers, and racists(he explains it otherwise, but ignorance is not an excuse, i was aware it was wrong even in the 80 -90's) make judgement calls that pale into insignificance compared to what they did on a football field.

 

[year of the cat]

Re: Podsiadly's bump on Adam Selwood

If Pods goes for that I give up - we may as well play the net ball GF on Saturday instead. A free kick wasn't even paid at the time FFS.

 

[nohairandfair]

Re: Podsiadly's bump on Adam Selwood

The more concerning thing is that we even have to discuss incidents like this.

Adrian Anderson and his cohorts have insidiously conspired to dupe the general public into believing that incidental high contact is worthy of a suspension every time.

Pathetic.

 

[MC Extra Dollop]

Re: Podsiadly's bump on Adam Selwood

faid=s dinkum J. Hogan get a grip and report the facts not just make up sensational garbage, pods will be fine.

As for derm calling Keyy's knee contacting Keer "unsavoury", please Dermie that is your middle name.

At least Hogan appears to have a basic grasp of how the points system actually works. Brereton is apparently an expert, but gives the same, "oh he'll get about 200, with 100 knocked off for an early plea" type of verdict we could get from the armchair analysts on here.

 

[Richiecjp]

Re: Podsiadly's bump on Adam Selwood

Agree totally, I have now had a look at it in slow mo, frame by frame and it is an absolutley legitamite bump.

What actually happens as with any forecable contact is Selwoods head whips back towards Pods shoulder, so it is actually Selwoods head contacting piods shoulder not vice versa.

faid=s dinkum J. Hogan get a grip and report the facts not just make up sensational garbage, pods will be fine.

As for derm calling Keyy's knee contacting Keer "unsavoury", please Dermie that is your middle name.
Every body has a right to an opinion but it gets my goat when twits like Brereton, who let's face it were snipers, and racists(he explains it otherwise, but ignorance is not an excuse, i was aware it was wrong even in the 80 -90's) make judgement calls that pale into insignificance compared to what they did on a football field.

Beautifully put Badger. Brereton and Jesse. Both flogs. Go flog each other.

 

[vinum coupe]

Re: Podsiadly's bump on Adam Selwood

At the time it happened I cringed.
It is the sort of play they rub players out for.

And we can't afford to lose him.
If he goes and Johnson misses, then we will effectively replace Pods, Johnson, and Menzel with Mooney, Milburn, and Corey.

That my friends is not a recipe for success.

 

[Richiecjp]

Re: Pods possible Report

hmmm... still very difficult to make a call.

True. True. The photo of "it" does look a bit like a bearded lady I saw in a Freakshow book a few years back. Poor Jesse. Its parents must have decided to give it an ambiguous name when it was born.

 

[AM]

Re: Podsiadly's bump on Adam Selwood

Agree there's nothing in it and nothing will come of it. But the AFL is hyper sensitive to any contact with the head, remote as that contact may be.

Of more interest to me is whether they intended looking at Kel's slide in which he made some contact to the back of a Weagle with a knee as was speculated on in One Week at a Time last night. Minor and purely accidental and doesn't warrant a second look.

 

[donbooger]

Re: Podsiadly's bump on Adam Selwood

I think even in the Pods one he had little choice both going for the ball and protecting himself at the last moment, would be 50-50 chance during the season, highly unlikely to be suspended from a grand final though.

Kelly the same, wanted the ball perhaps could have been a little more careful but nothing to miss a grand final for.

The MRP take into account everyone is moving twice as fast during finals, no need for concern on either case, all previous finals precedents are in our favour in this.

 

[the distributer]

Re: Podsiadly's bump on Adam Selwood

Just seen it for the first time, why are we even discussing this?, he wouldn't have had anything to worry about in the HaA season FFS.

 

[Jimmy Yamazaki]

James Kelly cleared

HS has sighted James Kelly's Knee to the back of Kerr as a report..

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/a...-and-james-kelly/story-e6frf9jf-1226146075425

Hope he gets up... if he and SJ are out I won't like our chances... Surely he will play?

 

[Boxhead_31]

Re: Pods possible Report

http://about.theage.com.au/view_profile.php?intid=1357

I dont think Jesse has got one right all year.

Seem's to have no idea what the MRP is going to do just like the rest of us

 

[vinum coupe]

Re: James Kelly

What? All the HS says is "will almost certainly be scrutinised"

 

[Reg Hickey]

Re: Podsiadly's bump on Adam Selwood

The main contact is Pods' hip with Selwood's body, but there is clearly also incidental contact between Pods' arm and Selwood's head. It's just a question of whether the MRP deem it "forceful" enough to book him. You would really hope that common sense prevails and they don't, but who knows with them ...

 

[TheOldXav]

Re: Podsiadly's bump on Adam Selwood

The main contact is Pods' hip with Selwood's body, but there is clearly also incidental contact between Pods' arm and Selwood's head. It's just a question of whether the MRP deem it "forceful" enough to book him.

The "incidental" contact was forceful enough for Selwood to be taken off & be given a concussion test in the rooms. There has been numerous incidents this year where the player has played on after getting hit high, not having a concussion test & then the player who applied the bump going for forceful contact.

 

[the distributer]

Re: Podsiadly's bump on Adam Selwood

The "incidental" contact was forceful enough for Selwood to be taken off & be given a concussion test in the rooms. There has been numerous incidents this year where the player has played on after getting hit high, not having a concussion test & then the player who applied the bump going for forceful contact.

He looked more winded to me, he'll be right, borderline free kick, nothing more.