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MRP / Trib. AFL 2nd Semi Final findings - Paul Chapman accepts one-week ban for bump on Robbie Gray
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Hoffy95
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I'd like to think he'd be picked for the AFL GF.
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Maybe if he says he was going to lay a tackle but after Gray got rid of the ball he braced for impact and didn't mean to bump.... Maybe.
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1-2cm can be very important in some contexts.
Clearly well off the ground, though.
He had to be to get near his shoulder. I'm through with excuses.
If he's gone, he's gone- will make a win all that more pleasurable, and a great excuse if we JUST lose.
I know it's been this way for a while, but incidents like this show just how soft the game has become.
Surely there has to be some leniency in the way things are adjudicated, especially when the person who got bumped wasn't even hurt.
Surely there has to be some leniency in the way things are adjudicated, especially when the person who got bumped wasn't even hurt.
Watching it in real time from the angle taken from the side of the ground that it happened, I reckon he has some chance of getting off with a reprimand based on lack of forceful contact. He didn't really hit him hard at all.
It's been that way for quite some time now BB. Due to concern about concussive injuries. We may not like it but we need to adjust. The coach has been attempting to do that by training our players to tackle rather than bump so we don't expose ourselves to the MRP. Chappy made the choice to bump and in doing so leave the ground. Had he not left the ground he most likely would not have connected head high.
Would you please keep showing this positiveness all week. Cos I'm a pessimist and I really need regular positive re-enforcement.
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If that's possible he could pull a Steve King and win a VFL flag one week and an AFL flag the week after.
Pretty sure AFL suspensions override VFL.
Rubbed out in one, rubbed out in all.
The panel on Chanel 7 said before they rekon it should be assessed as low impact & he gets a reprimand as Gray played on with no dramas.
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Well that settles it then. Chappy's gone.
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Haha -excellent-will be happy for a return of 1 out of 4 there!
i had this discussion earlier with friends. it HAS to be low impact. everything else is the same as the Franklin one, however on this occasion the player got up immediately and continued without any discomfort. In the Franklin case, the player went off the ground and had scans on his jaw. Player was off for a good 20-30 minutes i think. so based on that being medium impact, the Chapman one must be low. Otherwise it will be the same; negligent, and high contact. so: negligent, high contact and low impact is a hundred and something, guilty plea, down to reprimand and 90 points or some such. If the MRP have any credibility, its the only result.
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He'll get two down to one. Clearly high, he was off the ground, and even though a horde of you are claiming it was low impact Robbie Gray clearly put his hand to his jaw afterward, which IMO means the MRP will use to claim medium impact.
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I don't think there'a any debate that he got him high. But Gray raising his hand to his face doesn't make it medium impact - not by a long margin.
It's low impact, if that. The guy took his free kick and played on.
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Channel 7 reporter Mark Stevens appears to have been worded up by AFL HQ on this and is saying Reckless rather than Negligent will be the verdict because he has "jumped" into Gray.
Not sure what exactly constitutes a "jump" but from the slo-mo replay you would have to say Chapman has left the ground to some degree but it's not quite a leap; it's a marginal call open to interpretation.
Given the bump's force was quite low and sits on the blurry line between just a free-kick and a report, Chappy would be stiff to get a 2 week suspension (reduced to 1 with early plea) on this.
This grab from Mark Fraser (1:30 into the video) on the Ziebell bump indicates that the jumping was why it was given a Reckless verdict.
Not sure what exactly constitutes a "jump" but from the slo-mo replay you would have to say Chapman has left the ground to some degree but it's not quite a leap; it's a marginal call open to interpretation.
Given the bump's force was quite low and sits on the blurry line between just a free-kick and a report, Chappy would be stiff to get a 2 week suspension (reduced to 1 with early plea) on this.
This grab from Mark Fraser (1:30 into the video) on the Ziebell bump indicates that the jumping was why it was given a Reckless verdict.
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