News AFL Tribunal appeals board upholds Houston's 5 Week Suspension

[Kenny Dee]

What a weak and disgusting hit. Anyone that thinks it's tough to run through a vulnerable player like that is just as weak as Houston

 

[Maddo11]

Watched the replay this morning and only just noticed that part - makes sense now but last night I couldn't comprehend how H-F ended up with the ball on the restart

Understandably, most people weren't watching the play continue

 

[Gunner886]

What a weak and disgusting hit. Anyone that thinks it's tough to run through a vulnerable player like that is just as weak as Houston

Go watch golf

 

[Gunner886]

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Clean hit, AFL better let Houston continue his season, Just because Rankie got sent to the shadow realm from a clean hit doesn't mean Houston should receive punishment. Maynard hit last year was 100 times worse and he got let off.

 

[CrowToon]

Go watch golf

Go watch the interviews with family of people posthumously diagnosed with CTE

 

[Gunner886]

Go watch the interviews with family of people posthumously diagnosed with CTE

I have, whats your point? you seem to enjoy AFL just as much as the next guy, AFL don't even care about head injuries otherwise they'd mandate head protection to reduce the effects by 30%

 

[voorhees]

the afl dont like the prime time hits like that..not aware if Houston has prior history. regardless
he will be taking a seat for 4 weeks...

 

[catters05]

Will they? Doesn't happen like that in rugby league, rugby and American football.

Ask NRL fans, sin bin is a lottery, send off is worse.

AFL umps are 1000% worse, would be terrible.

 

[Harro59]

He chose to bump rather than tackle therefore it isn’t careless it is intentional. His intention was always to bump.

You roll the dice, you pay the consequences.

4+

The AFL have made it clear that once a player chooses to bump, all consequences of the action regardless of whether they are intended or not are the responsibility of the player that made the choice. Hence its not going to matter where he got him, in the eyes of the AFL the bumping player is responsible.

So it won't be 1 - 2. Easily 4+ in my opinion.

 

[north_lad]

I like Houston a lot and think he's a good player, but he chose to turn and bump/run through Rankine so he's in trouble. He simply cannot plead ignorance here, the players know by now you can't do that.

As for Port fans booing Rankine... well. I think that speaks for itself.

 

[Fitzey]

Maynard chose to bump and got let off, finals coming up has a big say on suspensions.

 

[Gunner886]

The AFL have made it clear that once a player chooses to bump, all consequences of the action regardless of whether they are intended or not are the responsibility of the player that made the choice. Hence its not going to matter where he got him, in the eyes of the AFL the bumping player is responsible.

So it won't be 1 - 2. Easily 4+ in my opinion.

So then any legal hit (like this one) that results in an injury means the player is at fault and should be punished? stupid interpretation by AFL

 

[maskmcgee]

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Cool. Not relevant. He bumped him, and the bump caused him to hit his head on the ground. Where he bumped him isn't relevant. It's high contact. Go read the tribunal guidelines next time.

 

[Harro59]

So then any legal hit (like this one) that results in an injury means the player is at fault and should be punished? stupid interpretation by AFL

Stupid or not, that seems to be what the AFL are running with.

 

[Gunner886]

Cool. Not relevant. He bumped him, and the bump caused him to hit his head on the ground. Where he bumped him isn't relevant. It's high contact. Go read the tribunal guidelines next time.

How is a fair hit careless or intentional? guessing you haven't read the guidelines you're telling everyone else to read

 

[CrowToon]

So then any legal hit (like this one) that results in an injury means the player is at fault and should be punished? stupid interpretation by AFL

Troll

 

[Gunner886]

Troll

You call everyone with a different opinion to yours that?

Would I be a troll if i said the same about Maynard hit on Brayshaw last year that went unpunished?

 

[Young Gun #6]

Cool. Not relevant. He bumped him, and the bump caused him to hit his head on the ground. Where he bumped him isn't relevant. It's high contact. Go read the tribunal guidelines next time.

You need to actually make contact with the head to be high contact.

Pretty clearly body. It’s going to be 4 weeks we all know that.

Just for the nuffies saying 6-8 stop being ridiculous. Unfortunately under the new rules you’re responsible even if making a clean bump for what else happens.

Rankine’s clearly knocked out from his head hitting the ground though so there’s absolutely no way it should be 6-8 weeks with no high/head contact from Houston’s part.

The 4 weeks punishment for choosing to bump and the consequences come with that for the after effects.

 

[ptrg]

Port fans are dreaming. He was out before he hit the ground, the shoulder clearly impacts high. Rankine wont play again this year and neither will Houston. I reckon 6 weeks provided no bones are broken.

Watching the slowmos, I actually reckon the initial impact is to the chest, but the force causes the head to rotate downward, and his chin gets "uppercut" by Houstons shoulder in a classic knock out

 

[Mootsy]

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The perfect, classic bump!

1 game for careless timing.

 

[Maddo11]

How is a fair hit careless or intentional? guessing you haven't read the guidelines you're telling everyone else to read

"A player may still be guilty of rough conduct if their conduct was unreasonable in the circumstances". And then a little further down it will be unreasonable if "the player being bumped was in a vulnerable position" which having jumped for the ball Rankine was exposed, and Houston had the option to tackle and didn't take it so this clearly satisfies rough conduct, regardless of whether it was to the body or head.

It'll boil down to "was this reasonable in the circumstances" which is clearly no.

 

[Aristotle Pickett]

Houston is not a dirty player, that should be taken into account.

 

[ptrg]

Will they? Doesn't happen like that in rugby league, rugby and American football.

Surely you heard about the Origin controversy this year?
Reactive send off that genuinely split opinions - which imo means it shouldn't be a send off.

If it does come in, it must be solely a function of the ARC to review, consult a lb AFL lawyer on hand (with regards to the technical legal rulings) and then inform the umpires.

And a sin bin for in-between acts would be the worst possible thing for AFL.

 

[LukeParkerno1]

Houston is not a dirty player, that should be taken into account.

Wasn’t taken into account for Parker. Rankine got 4 weeks himself for a lesser incident.

 

[BringFevBack2021]

If that was Christian Petracca

5

Christian Petracca

Age

28

Ht

187cm

Wt

94kg

Pos.

Mid

Career

Season

Last 5

D

19.4

5star

K

9.5

4star

HB

9.8

5star

M

3.5

4star

T

3.0

5star

CL

2.5

4star

D

24.4

5star

K

10.4

4star

HB

14.0

5star

M

3.5

3star

T

3.6

4star

CL

3.4

4star

D

19.0

5star

K

7.8

3star

HB

11.2

5star

M

3.0

3star

T

3.8

5star

CL

2.0

4star

the trainers would've ran out with smelling salts and a message from Goodwin that simply read "get up campaigner"