Harry McKay hit on Harry Sheezel

[HairyO]

You (and others) seem to be really annoyed that a player has been able to get away with "a double forearm to the head". It's a travesty. The AFL are corrupt and have given the green light to assault players on the field.

Charlie Ballard strikes a player behind play... crickets... closely followed by tumbleweeds... followed by more crickets.

A Carlton player getting off fits the narrative that Carlton are cheats, get players off suspensions (despite Acres being suspended this week) and that the VFL is in full swing, looking after its own, despite an interstate player getting off for a much worse action.
If you ignore one thing, while focusing on the other, the narrative you've created in your head will always be correct.

This is just a generalisation, aimed at many people in this thread, not just you. I picked yours to quote because it was closest to the bottom and included your hyperbolic account of the incident.

The AFL are just desperate for you lot to finally make the finals. Its why you get such an easy run.

Just accept it and be thankful.

Of course it probably wont be enough, again

 

[footy4ever]

You (and others) seem to be really annoyed that a player has been able to get away with "a double forearm to the head". It's a travesty. The AFL are corrupt and have given the green light to assault players on the field.

Charlie Ballard strikes a player behind play... crickets... closely followed by tumbleweeds... followed by more crickets.

A Carlton player getting off fits the narrative that Carlton are cheats, get players off suspensions (despite Acres being suspended this week) and that the VFL is in full swing, looking after its own, despite an interstate player getting off for a much worse action.
If you ignore one thing, while focusing on the other, the narrative you've created in your head will always be correct.

This is just a generalisation, aimed at many people in this thread, not just you. I picked yours to quote because it was closest to the bottom and included your hyperbolic account of the incident.

Hyperbolic? Are you sight impaired?

 

[Obeanie1]

If this was, say, Charlie Comben hitting Ollie Hollands then there is no way he gets let off. What a joke of a comp.

Would Toby Green have gotten off with that action? Not a chance in hell.

As for low impact. I'd like all the tribunal members to stand there and a 198cm brute run up to them and hit them in the side of the head with raised forearms and then see if they think it's low impact.

As for the potential to cause serious injury. Lol. Why does the AFL even talk about that. This action obviously has the potential to seriously injury a player.

But the AFL will always leave grey areas so it can manipulate any result to fit its current agenda.

It's how AFL House operate.

 

[Cripps 'n' Blue Bloods]

The AFL are just desperate for you lot to finally make the finals. Its why you get such an easy run.

Just accept it and be thankful.

Of course it probably wont be enough, again

Yeah, they're so desparate.
They wanted Cripps suspended last year and appealed our appeal.
They fined TDK in round 2. Suspended Acres for a week in round 3 for a smother while injured and couldn't raise his arm. They suspended Harry in round 4.
They made us one of two teams who doesn't have a neutral game this week in gather round. We have to play Crows in front of a home crowd at AO, where we're 0-6.
They love us. It's very obvious that the fix is on.

 

[Cripps 'n' Blue Bloods]

Hyperbolic? Are you sight impaired?

Yes, hyperbolic.

It was a poorly executed attempt to push a player in the side while they kicked. He got there a fraction late, misjudged his aim by starting too high on the shoulder, then it slipped up to his head.
Calling it a double forearm to the head implies that he only got him in the head and that it was intentional, so the deliberately chosen wording is overtly emotive and hyperbolic.
Saying that it's clearly ok to do it, ignores the fact that the AFL wanted to suspend him and also implies that it was a deliberate act.
Saying 'play on' also ignores all of the above and the fact that it was rightly called as a free kick against Harry.

It was an exaggerated statement.

 

[croweater 41]

You can't be serious?
It's pure luck that Wehr wasn't seriously injured in that hit. Lined him up and cannoned into him. You could see his soul (or maybe it was sweat) leave his body.
Could easily have gone into cardiac arrest with a hit to the chest like that. Just like Damar Hamlin in the NFL.
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McKay could have easily hit the same area with a pointed elbow as Phillip Hughes got hit. If you want to make dumb comparisons we can go on all day.

Personally though McKay I don't think should have got any time off. A fine sure. What we need to work out is why some rules (potential to cause injury) are good one week and then forgotten about next week.

I think the answer lies somewhere in removing the MRO from his position and just having the tribunal again. At the minute there are far to many shades of black, white and grey. One controlling board/tribunal of who gets what. At the minute it is passed through to many hands and no one knows what the **** is going to happen one week to the next.

 

[Area51]

Mate, this is from their own guidelines:

Impact: Notwithstanding any other part of these Guidelines, any Careless or Intentional strike which is of an inherently dangerous kind and/or where there is a potential to cause serious injury (such as a strike with a raised elbow or forearm) will usually not be classified as Low Impact even though the extent of the actual physical impact may be low.

Instead they’ve fallen over themselves to excuse someone striking another player in the head with his forearms. In the context of a football climate where they’re otherwise doing everything to protect the head.

I don't buy the whole "we train to push players with forearms to effect the kick" - just completely irrelevant bullshit. strike or a push is irrelevant, there was contact initiated by McKay to the head. did it have potential to cause serious injury - this is so subjective - ordinarily I would say it's not in McKay's case but that's part of the problem, it's too subjective and the amateur football league wheel this clause out whenever they feel like it. There is no consistency or transparency and they leave themselves wide open to claims of favouritism.

 

[Obeanie1]

I don't buy the whole "we train to push players with forearms to effect the kick" - just completely irrelevant bullshit. strike or a push is irrelevant, there was contact initiated by McKay to the head. did it have potential to cause serious injury - this is so subjective - ordinarily I would say it's not in McKay's case but that's part of the problem, it's too subjective and the amateur football league wheel this clause out whenever they feel like it. There is no consistency or transparency and they leave themselves wide open to claims of favouritism.

Reported preseason Voss was pushing / coaching a more aggressive, unsociable style and physical intent from his players.

So charging the opposition raising elbows and taking players high sounds very much like the player following instructions and getting it wrong.

It's almost like the tribunal believes any fairy tale they are told by the defence when common sense plays no part in their deliberation.

 

[Area51]

Reported preseason Voss was pushing / coaching a more aggressive, unsociable style and physical intent from his players.

So charging the opposition raising elbows and taking players high sounds very much like the player following instructions and getting it wrong.

It's almost like the tribunal believes any fairy tale they are told by the defence when common sense plays no part in their deliberation.

Let me be clearer, they may have been training stuff, but training stuff is a BS excuse. For example, what if they were training to superman punch opponents in marking contests? No-one would accept that as a valid excuse.

 

[Chism]

Yeah, they're so desparate.
They wanted Cripps suspended last year and appealed our appeal.
They fined TDK in round 2. Suspended Acres for a week in round 3 for a smother while injured and couldn't raise his arm. They suspended Harry in round 4.
They made us one of two teams who doesn't have a neutral game this week in gather round. We have to play Crows in front of a home crowd at AO, where we're 0-6.
They love us. It's very obvious that the fix is on.

Shh as nobody wants to hear this i am sure. Let the hyperbole of hate flow through the nuffies driven by agenda. If we did not even play the Crows this week they would be silent and nothing to see here apart from the fact we are 0-6 lately at AO and like you said are only 1 of 2 teams this week with a genuine away game.