MRP / Trib. Dan Butler educates the AFL on what a tackle is

[CursingFijian]

 

[sammm]

It's not often the Saints win at the tribunal. It's 2 from 2 (I think) this year.

 

[TheNewEnsign]

They owe us a holding the ball decision

Damn right. Cost us a shot on goal at the very, very least; all the Sydney players were streaming forward of the ball assuming the Lizard would break a line and get on the fast break.

They were terribly disorganised when the tackle happened and Pou (from memory) was lurking about ~10m ahead on the 50 ready for one of his long bombs. King most likely one out as well. In a close game it was a big call.

 

[NextYearPlease]

It's not often the Saints win at the tribunal. It's 2 from 2 (I think) this year.

Caminiti anyone?

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[Diehard Saint]

Caminiti anyone?

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He was reduced from what everyone in the media was baying for.
3 weeks was regarded as a “win.”

 

[Dard Ball Get]

Multi billion dollar bush league with a suspension process like something out of A Few Good Men ffs

 

[sammm]

Caminiti anyone?

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That's the 1st, and Butler is the 2nd. Saints successfully downgraded Caminiticharge

 

[NoisyMinor]

Turns out threat of a good old-fashioned dropping really IS a motivator.

 

[Dr Spaceman]

As it happened.

 

[gringo2011]

It's not often the Saints win at the tribunal. It's 2 from 2 (I think) this year.

Not often that we win at anything. This year... results, umpiring, drafting....it's unsettling. Like bizarro world.

 

[Stan_Darsh72]

Multi billion dollar bush league with a suspension process like something out of A Few Good Men ffs

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AFL vs the Laws of Physics was not on my bingo card for this year.

 

[Diehard Saint]

Not often that we win at anything. This year... results, umpiring, drafting....it's unsettling. Like bizarro world.

Dare I say it…. Even the Free Kick count has improved.

 

[kyrgios]

Man just got double ticked

What does it mean?

 

[TheNewEnsign]

Multi billion dollar bush league with a suspension process like something out of A Few Good Men ffs

Did you mean to sling him in the tackle?

I did my job, I'd do it again...

Did. You. Mean. To. Sling. Him. In the tackle?

YOU'RE GODDAMN RIGHT I DID!

 

[Diehard Saint]

Sicily cops three!
Very mixed feeling about this. Same as De Goeys which was much worse imo.

 

[DougalHoward]

What does it mean?

Not sure only mods can use it

George

 

[Dard Ball Get]

Sicily cops three!
Very mixed feeling about this. Same as De Goeys which was much worse imo.

Deserved 0 in my opinion.
The death knell for football as we (used) to know it. Utterly ridiculous.

 

[Plugger35]

Sicily cops three!
Very mixed feeling about this. Same as De Goeys which was much worse imo.

So was Pickett's bump which got a week less than Sicily got for a tackle.

I hope the Hawks appeal that suspension if they can, that's just ridiculous.

 

[TheNewEnsign]

Sicily cops three!
Very mixed feeling about this. Same as De Goeys which was much worse imo.

It's a bit of a tinfoil-y take but although the language of the decision is only about his tackling action, I think he copped it for the push in the upper back afterwards.

Have a look at the slowed down footage from the side angle. Sicily tackles, McLuggage swings around a bit and is lying on the ground; but his head at that point is almost perpendicular to the ground. Tackle is over; but Sicily then places one hand on the middle of his back and one hand on the upper back / very base of McL's neck and then pushes down pretty hard. McL's head starts to fold down and under him with all the strain and force being on the neck. The vision is tbh horrible and Sicily could have easily broken his neck.

This sort of action has been done hundreds of times before (given an opponent a shove while they are on the ground after htb), but McL's head in this particular instance is in a really strange and vulnerable position, and Sicily doesn't even look at him while shoving him in the upper back.

 

[George]

****ing hilarious that none of the players have bothered to watch the AFL video on tackling

 

[Diehard Saint]

So was Pickett's bump which got a week less than Sicily got for a tackle.

I hope the Hawks appeal that suspension if they can, that's just ridiculous.

That was a shocker. Flying in both feet off the ground.

 

[Hayes4PM]

Did you mean to sling him in the tackle?

I did my job, I'd do it again...

Did. You. Mean. To. Sling. Him. In the tackle?

YOU'RE GODDAMN RIGHT I DID!

You WANT me on that ground! You NEED me on that ground!

 

[CursingFijian]

Did you mean to sling him in the tackle?

I did my job, I'd do it again...

Did. You. Mean. To. Sling. Him. In the tackle?

YOU'RE GODDAMN RIGHT I DID!

 

[Schwarzes_Goal]

Heard an age journalist suggest Butler was moving too fast when he got to Blakey so therefore he should have shown a duty of care by not tackling him at all.
I've heard some rubbish from the AFL media this year but that's probably the best yet.

 

[BrutThough]

Heard an age journalist suggest Butler was moving too fast when he got to Blakey so therefore he should have shown a duty of care by not tackling him at all.
I've heard some rubbish from the AFL media this year but that's probably the best yet.

That's easily the worst take on the tackle yet.