I was wondering if he gets suspended. Looking at footage it appears, he hit the ball first with fist and then head with forearm. It should be fine
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I was wondering if he gets suspended. Looking at footage it appears, he hit the ball first with fist and then head with forearm. It should be fine
Hit the ball first? Haha.
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Problem is it is quite late. Going for the ball, but the ball had already been marked. Not a good look.
It was still late, well after he marked the ball.
It was incrediblely stupid, especially for a player whose captain of the side.
It should be a week, but may get off for the fact that Jacob got up and kicked the goal after.
It shouldn't matter if Jacob got up, but it will.
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I have no problem with one week. But quite often players get away with fine when they hit the ball first. I actually remember players hitting head when spoiling without touching ball and not even pay fine. Van Rooyen hitting Ballard springs into my mind (ball was nowhere near).
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I believe that the club will argue the case that Tsitas was late but got the ball first and Jacob got up immediately and kicked a goal.
In that case, it will likely be a fine.
But that shouldn't be the case, especially with the imminent threat of a class action lawsuit against the AFL from ex players.
The AFL really needs to crack down on these sorts of actions and actually show a level of duty of care to the players instead of worrying about "fans" online.
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I would say, nobody worries about Tsitas
(unless you count a couple of Suns fans) but I agree head should be sacrosanct in today's environment and players have duty of care. Lawsuits pending for hundreds of millions of dollars will teach AFL a lesson. IMO, Angus Brayshaw case shows AFL is still not there. Weitering not being concussion assessed during the game is another example of s**t system (despite clearly hit on chin and stumbling by watching replay On The Couch yesterday).
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Definitely should be a suspension unfortunately. Can't come in that late with an arm like that
DAF and may cost us a GF win. I hope he gets off as Cripps won a Brownlow after doing worse
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moyle down to tsitas/davies has been an elite ruck combo lately, would be a shame to lose a key piece of our midfield for the most important game.
any other round of the year it's probably a week suspension you cop, i'd imagine same should still apply for this week based on the vision. definitely didn't intend to smack him in the head, but contact was there and high so i'd expect him to miss.
any other round of the year it's probably a week suspension you cop, i'd imagine same should still apply for this week based on the vision. definitely didn't intend to smack him in the head, but contact was there and high so i'd expect him to miss.
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Tsitas has not gotten off sadly
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Yeah, I'm not a fan of the hash tag social media person.
It's like they're trying to make it a meme. Head hits should be taken extremely seriously in the AFL world.
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Players just need to focus on Sunday's game not on this. Great that they are caring for their skipper but they really just need to focus on the Grand Final. The decision will be made and take care of itself.Players going with it too
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Not a fan of this at all.Players going with it too
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The loss of Tsitas is far more of a detriment to our GF hopes than the team getting behind him on socials.
"Need to focus on the Grand Final" JFC guys its Tuesday
He is a big loss
The loss of Tsitas is far more of a detriment to our GF hopes than the team getting behind him on socials.
"Need to focus on the Grand Final" JFC guys its Tuesday
Leo can step up
Totally agree and it will be hard to overcome......but he's not there now.......so build the bridge, and move on........or play the victim card like the Demons, and dwell on "why is everyone against us" 'our mate was knocked out".....boo hoo! poor us!
and where did that get them?
Got offered 1 game but the VFL tribunal ended up giving him 2 games
Any updates whether we are appealing?
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