MRP / Trib. James Sicily - 3 weeks for dangerous tackle - SUSPENSION STANDS!

[Mojo]

Alright, contingency plan Fellas. I've fashioned two dozen cricket stumps into military-grade wooden bayonets. We ride at dawn.

 

[Yardie]

BULLSHIT decision


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[The Spirit of Cricket]

rigged

 

[The Spirit of Cricket]

3 is TOTALLY absurd. absolutely remarkable

 

[Roger Rogerson]

heck me.

 

[Hawkas1988]

3 matches for that is absolutely ridiculous.

Will be another AA year robbed from Sicily.

Should be a 3 time AA at least if not for injury, selector incompetence and now unjust suspensions.

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[Beandip]

As soon as Butler got off i knew Sicily was toast.

AFL has to have someone take the fall when others are getting off, otherwise the whole thing seems like a farce.

 

[Dewyyyyy]

I wouldn't be shocked with how hard we pushed in terms of our lawyers approach, Sicily & the expert that we will appeal at the courts.

 

[Dazza the Viking]

AFL has become a joke

 

[hawker11]

Appeal for the sake of the game.

 

[offtherails9]

That’s a deadset rort. How do they get away with this?

 

[hamohawk1]

has to appeal.

 

[Bugs1977]

As annoyed as what I am with this it's going to be interesting to see how other coaches, players and the media react to this. On the bright side if there was one way to ensure that we're still in the running for a bottom 3 pick then thanks (or tanks) AFL for making that easier to happen.

All I ask from this now is that we throw DGB into the deep end to play Sics role as an interceptor sink or swim. It could end up being the making of him.

 

[Ashman23]

****ing bullshit, we need to appeal immediately

 

[Mitchell Madness]

I wouldn't be shocked with how hard we pushed in terms of our lawyers approach, Sicily & the expert that we will appeal at the courts.

Still got another appeal first.
Given its a bye week, we should then appeal that.

We haven't won a tribunal decision in nearly 20 years. League out to get us

 

[TazHawk15]

We are normally passive when it comes to the tribunal but we MUST appeal.

 

[Mercy Seat]

Same amount of weeks as DeGoey. WTF

 

[cryptor]

3 matches for that is absolutely ridiculous.

Will be another AA year robbed from Sicily.

Should be a 3 time AA at least if not for injury, selector incompetence and now unjust suspensions.

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Not that it really matters but it shouldn't need to effect his AA chances. If they decide he's the best performed then it shouldn't matter if he played less games. Stewart got in last year on that logic.

 

[The Jet From Poowong]

So the decision means that Sicily’s action is as bad as de Goeys bump last week
WhAt planet are these dickheads from

 

[JoeHawk]

So is the punishment of 3 weeks in line with DeGoey who jump off the ground with a firm hip and shoulder in a deliberate act to flatten? .....I don't flipping think so.

 

[KermitJagger]

Not that it really matters but it shouldn't need to effect his AA chances. If they decide he's the best performed then it shouldn't matter if he played less games. Stewart got in last year on that logic.

Here's the difference, Sicily is not Stewart.

 

[birch]

Not that it really matters but it shouldn't need to effect his AA chances. If they decide he's the best performed then it shouldn't matter if he played less games. Stewart got in last year on that logic.

Yeh but Stewart is yet another love child from that * of a club, and this is Sic

 

[TylerDurden]

As expected. Thought he'd get 4.

 

[The hands of stone]

The game as we knew it is gone. Give it a few seasons and you wont be able to tackle an opponant to ground .
Thats where we are heading now.

Feel for Sis , absolutely fall guy here . Must appeal .

 

[DogDaySonny]

It almost feels like the AFL is trying to get a club to take a case to the courts so they can establish ‘reasonable’ risk and actions to prevent head injuries. It’s a contact sport that is inherently dangerous and potentially debilitating. For non-head injuries this seems to be a well-established and accepted risk of the game. Head injuries seems to be floating around this absolutist position that ‘reasonable’ means no risk, which given the nature of the activity is obviously not reasonable. Given this hasn’t been tested in Australian courts, nor the damages established, it feels to me as if the AFL is squeezing tighter and tighter until either a player or club takes them to court.