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

[The Jet From Poowong]

I would like to hear the arseholes on the panel explanation of how he was supposed to prevent this from happening

What millisecond he was supposed to execute the perfect tackle and let go

 

[QuietB]

RIP the tackle, it was nice while it lasted

I’m not ready for this. I’m still mourning the bump

 

[Buzz Hawk]

I’d say I’m surprised by this but I’m not. It’s a disgraceful decision, particularly in light of the Merrett result.
Gilligan and his boys club have really ****ed us over.
Appeal the shit out of this pls Hawthorn.

 

[jenniferHAWKinS]

3 weeks for a desperate, lunging fingernail tackle with a third party entangled. F……. joke. If I didn’t love the Hawks I wouldn’t give the AFL a second of my attention. Must appeal with everything we’ve got!

 

[Blackhawk42]

At this stage would miss games against GC , Blues and GWS .
Huge out for us in winneable games.

Legit chance to win all 3 with him.

Damn near impossible without him.

Such an important player.

If we'd won against GWS and Adelaide like we should have, this next set of games could have been our finals chances on the line. And we wouldn't have our captain and most important player there for it because of a tackle he won a free kick for.

 

[Sixpence]

The reasoning is just as moronic.

Tribunal's reasons for decision:



Sicily clung on and rotated McCluggage across his body. Tyler Brockman leapt across the back of the rotating McCluggage and made contact with him.



Sicily kept clinging onto McCluggage and kept rotating him. We do not accept Brockman’s involvement caused an otherwise safe tackle to be dangerous.



Sicily continuing to rotate McCluggage, pulling him down on his left arm and pinning his left arm caused this tackle to be dangerous.



He could’ve released the left arm. Had he done so, McCluggage would not have been rotated across his body into the ground with such force.



Accordingly, we find this was a dangerous tackle.



We do not accept that there are exceptional and compelling circumstances here. Two matters were raised.



As to the first, it may be that Brockman’s involvement changed the force of the impact, but we can't be sufficiently satisfied as to the extent. If Brockman wasn't there, McCluggage would’ve still been rotated into the ground with force.



As to the second, we accept without hesitation Sicily was remorseful and immediately quite shaken by the injury to McCluggage he did not intend.



This does not constitute exceptional and compelling circumstances.



We impose a sanction of three weeks’ suspension.

 

[JoeHawk]

Tribunal's reasons for decision:

Sicily clung on and rotated McCluggage across his body. Tyler Brockman leapt across the back of the rotating McCluggage and made contact with him.

Sicily kept clinging onto McCluggage and kept rotating him. We do not accept Brockman’s involvement caused an otherwise safe tackle to be dangerous.

Sicily continuing to rotate McCluggage, pulling him down on his left arm and pinning his left arm caused this tackle to be dangerous.

He could’ve released the left arm. Had he done so, McCluggage would not have been rotated across his body into the ground with such force.

Accordingly, we find this was a dangerous tackle.

We do not accept that there are exceptional and compelling circumstances here. Two matters were raised.

As to the first, it may be that Brockman’s involvement changed the force of the impact, but we can't be sufficiently satisfied as to the extent. If Brockman wasn't there, McCluggage would’ve still been rotated into the ground with force.

As to the second, we accept without hesitation Sicily was remorseful and immediately quite shaken by the injury to McCluggage he did not intend.

This does not constitute exceptional and compelling circumstances.

We impose a sanction of three weeks’ suspension.


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MUST APPEAL ON THE GROUNDS OF UTTER BULLSHIT!!!!!

AND ALL THIS OCCURRED IN 1.04 SEC OF ACTION.....GAGF AFL!!!

 

[HappyHawk_1]

Time to burn it all down.

(a joke, but honestly the AFL is a joke so it fits)

 

[Mitchell Madness]

Time to spam the twitter/insta of those on the panel (keeping it clean, no death threats) and spam the talk back lines. Make your voice heard

 

[Paul Kersey]

Appeal it. That said, really expected more from Neitz and Radan.

 

[birch]

Who is that 3rd member of the panel?
Edit: Talia Radan. With all due respect, Talia would never have been part of an incident with the velocity and ferociousness of this one - how can you assess the actions of someone in a situation you’ve never been in yourself?

 

[extractasam]

?? Thought it was the least vicous of the 3 before the tribunal tonight. The Jack Graham

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Jack Graham

Age

26

Ht

181cm

Wt

85kg

Pos.

M/F

Career

Season

Last 5

D

14.7

4star

K

8.0

3star

HB

6.8

4star

M

2.1

2star

T

6.3

5star

CL

1.8

4star

D

11.8

3star

K

5.3

2star

HB

6.5

4star

M

2.8

3star

T

4.2

5star

CL

1.2

4star

D

14.0

4star

K

6.0

3star

HB

8.0

5star

M

1.8

2star

T

7.0

5star

CL

3.2

5star

one was worse and didn’t even get referred. **** knows what’s happening to our game at the moment

 

[Hodginator]

At least for the most part, there’s support from the wider football community

 

[rumoursofwinter]

I’m not ready for this. I’m still mourning the bump

High flying marks will be next. Bullshit decision. Suspended twice since having a swipe at the Tasmanian expansion.

 

[peetoo]

And while I'm being a misery guts, you just know one of our players will get concussed in a tackle in the next match or few and the AFL will rule "lost control, no case to answer". It will be a perfect troll

Like the Sicily. Selwood thing.

 

[VandoHawk]

Tribunal's reasons for decision:

Sicily clung on and rotated McCluggage across his body. Tyler Brockman leapt across the back of the rotating McCluggage and made contact with him.

Sicily kept clinging onto McCluggage and kept rotating him. We do not accept Brockman’s involvement caused an otherwise safe tackle to be dangerous.

Sicily continuing to rotate McCluggage, pulling him down on his left arm and pinning his left arm caused this tackle to be dangerous.

He could’ve released the left arm. Had he done so, McCluggage would not have been rotated across his body into the ground with such force.

Accordingly, we find this was a dangerous tackle.

We do not accept that there are exceptional and compelling circumstances here. Two matters were raised.

As to the first, it may be that Brockman’s involvement changed the force of the impact, but we can't be sufficiently satisfied as to the extent. If Brockman wasn't there, McCluggage would’ve still been rotated into the ground with force.

As to the second, we accept without hesitation Sicily was remorseful and immediately quite shaken by the injury to McCluggage he did not intend.

This does not constitute exceptional and compelling circumstances.

We impose a sanction of three weeks’ suspension.


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MUST APPEAL ON THE GROUNDS OF UTTER BULLSHIT!!!!!

AND ALL THIS OCCURRED IN 1.04 SEC OF ACTION.....GAGF AFL!!!

Oh yeah not like we got an expert or anything to suggest Brocky did cause Sicily to lose control.

 

[Noel Gallagher]

Mention it somewhere, it will eventually become a non contact sport

Over the years my interest in AFL has taken a dive, don’t listen to radio any more, barely watch the footy shows, only watch if I know that someone from Hawthorn is on and only watch the Hawthorn games now

Pretty much me these days as well. Dont know what’s worse listening to so called “experts” talking crap or getting hammered with gambling ads left right and centre

The game has really degenerated in the last three years

 

[H00t]

I could have understood 1 week given the outcome. But what exactly is Sicily meant to do here?

He’s lunging in a desperate tackle.
He pulls the player to him.
McCluggage has control of both his arms the whole time.
Brockman comes flying in over the top.
It's all one motion.
We had the testimony of a biomechanical lecturer that Sicily lost control of the tackle due to outside intervention.

And he’s been banned for the same amount of time as players that go past the ball to KO their opponents. Absolutely farcical and I hope we appeal.

It’s due to the rubbish decision of the AFL judging the outcome not the action. If there was some sort of middle ground from where the outcome was severe but the action was hardly bad that a middle ground occurred it would be a lot fairer.

Splitting these results down the middle works best.

Sucks we now lose Sic for the next 3 games.

 

[Nugett]

So their minds were made up before the decision.

 

[Argy]

Must appeal. Dogs act by the tribunal.

 

[Dazza the Viking]

Sadly I'm not surprised by this verdict. Absolute deadshit morons have ruined this game.

I agree, he was never going to get off

Basically can’t bump and tackle anymore, might as well watch the NBL or A - League

 

[PenAndPaper]

Got my hands on the footage the AFL sent clubs on how to tackle
View attachment videoplayback.mp4

 

[TNTre]

The reasoning is just as moronic.

Tribunal's reasons for decision:



Sicily clung on and rotated McCluggage across his body. Tyler Brockman leapt across the back of the rotating McCluggage and made contact with him.



Sicily kept clinging onto McCluggage and kept rotating him. We do not accept Brockman’s involvement caused an otherwise safe tackle to be dangerous.



Sicily continuing to rotate McCluggage, pulling him down on his left arm and pinning his left arm caused this tackle to be dangerous.



He could’ve released the left arm. Had he done so, McCluggage would not have been rotated across his body into the ground with such force.



Accordingly, we find this was a dangerous tackle.



We do not accept that there are exceptional and compelling circumstances here. Two matters were raised.



As to the first, it may be that Brockman’s involvement changed the force of the impact, but we can't be sufficiently satisfied as to the extent. If Brockman wasn't there, McCluggage would’ve still been rotated into the ground with force.



As to the second, we accept without hesitation Sicily was remorseful and immediately quite shaken by the injury to McCluggage he did not intend.



This does not constitute exceptional and compelling circumstances.



We impose a sanction of three weeks’ suspension.

Make all those changes in 1.04 seconds. I'd love to see the tribunal explain how Sic can achieve that in that space of time.

Absolutely corrupt bullshit.

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[TheFourPillars]

So all those ****ing words about sic not letting go off his arm pinning his arm in just over 1sec of a lunging tackle. ****ing ridiculous and outrageous. This was rigged from the beginning no matter the evidence. They had this ready to go no matter what. Honestly a waste of everyones ****ing time. I hope in a couple of years sicily ix holding that ****ing cup to stick right up them. Then ofcourse the next year

 

[The Jet From Poowong]

That transcript from the AFL is the biggest load of pre determined reasoning bullshit I have ever read

He never stood a chance