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

[PenAndPaper]

I am not telling them to do anything but think about where they are sending their money. If you’re comfortable funding this corrupt governing body over the HFC then power to to you - I’m more conscious about where the majority of my money goes.

Nah, you're just being a condescending prick.

 

[Ned Ryerson]

Nah, you're just being a condescending prick.

Well, yeah. I was never debating that.

 

[Noidnadroj]

Sorry to intrude, but that’s farcical. Mansell gets 3-weeks because he ‘chose to bump’ in the 0.2 seconds he had to take evasive action. Sicily gets 3-weeks when part of a tangle of bodies during a tackle where he got his man around the hips….

Yet in 2020 GF Danger gets off despite raising his elbow and knocking out Vlastuin. Pickett launches into his opponent and gets 2. DeGoey jumps and knocks out player off the ball and gets 3. Cripps launches off ground and takes out opponent just 15 games ago and gets off. Stewart runs past ball and knocks Prestia into next week and gets just one more week penalty than Sicily and Mansell.

Absolute imbeciles running the asylum.


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[Hodgey 15]

Let's see if AFL have the balls to suspend one of their marque big draw players in one of these dangerous tackles leading up to a Grand Final.

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[Endorphin Machine]

****ing bullshit!

 

[birch]

Let's see if AFL have the balls to suspend one if their marque big draw players in one of these dangerous tackles leading up to a Grand Final.

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We know the answer to that

 

[The hands of stone]

Just laugh along with it at this point.

Preliminary Final weekend is going to be hilarious when nobody is reported for anything!

Ive got no doubt if a team gets 30 up 5 mins to play in a Prelim they will stop tackling and just corral there opponant .

The AFL will then complain about how it looked and ask for a please explain from the coach

 

[Paul Kersey]

No doubt everyone at the tribunal gets briefed on what the outcome has to be pre hearing. System needs a complete overhaul - clubs need to drive that.

 

[Leather Poisoning]

Let's see if AFL have the balls to suspend one if their marque big draw players in one of these dangerous tackles leading up to a Grand Final.

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Don't put yourself through it - you konw there's going to be one highly contentious incident in prelim week with a marquee player that doesn't get suspened.
Happens almost every year.

 

[The hands of stone]

Kick an opponant arm , break it and you get off though .
Nothing against Curtis , an example of how bizarre this game now is .

 

[Viddiot]

As long as plyers get suspended for weeks whenever our boys get concussed, regardless of free kick and commentary, I can live with it. But I just don't think that's likely.

 

[Arrogant Frog]

This league is F***en Joke!!

Name one other professional sport, where coaches, players, commentators, umpires and fans have no f***en idea what the rules are as they constantly get interpreted differently from week to week.

Let me remind people that the umpire on the day saw this as fair tackle, but some other muppet sees it as a 3 week incident.
What other sport coiuld this possibly happen in?

The league can go F*** themeselves. If I wasn't so passionate about Hawthorn I would have pissed this sport off a long time ago.

 

[Elhawko]

And how does it take 90 minutes to confirm if there isn’t a whole lot of debate?

Anyway, we knew this would be the outcome. It’s just another coal in the furnace that is forging our young team. We’ll be tougher, harder and more resilient at the end of this year for all the pressure they have had to withstand and overcome.

 

[Crankyhawk]

Options
1) dump tackle every one of the Gold Coast players hurt the afls plastic franchise
2) boycott the round 18 match vs north - hurt their bottom line
3) cancel all afl memberships - cut them up and mail them back to afl house

 

[Viddiot]

...which also raises the question...since we're judging the outcome...what about Dangerfield's punctured lung??

 

[almuz]

Clowns at AFL House

Hoping in a couple of years time our Blond Prince is holding up the cup at the G and tells these bozos to get a big dog up them

 

[Bugs1977]

Dudes settle - we aren't taking it to court. It'll end here.

It's total bullshit - but we aren't go to court with our legal team.

Look - it's the worst decision I've seen. No other tackle getting clsoe to a 3 match suspension - even the ones where theres someone being headlocked and taken to the ground.

Insanity. There's no way to tell Sicily what he should have done in that situation. There's no alterntive to that action except not tackle, let your opponent run away with the ball.

Was actually one of the most brilliant tackles I've seen.

My worry now is how doe this effect Sic and he way he goes about it. This kind of BS will eventually will take its toll on him and I'd hate to see it change the way he approaches a contest because like you said the tackle was perfect.

 

[RobHawk]

So from this moment on the incoming AFL ceo will be referred to as Andrew " I'll leave it at that" Dillon

 

[Leather Poisoning]

My worry now is how doe this effect Sic and he way he goes about it. This kind of BS will eventually will take its toll on him and I'd hate to see it change the way he approaches a contest because like you said the tackle was perfect.

He's copped it his whole career. He'll be fine. He'll still play hard and occasionally come off second best for it

 

[Mitchell Madness]

As i posted on the main board - The NRL fell off a cliff in the mid 2000s. They were suspending players for everything and anything.
The fans had enough, and turned their backs at all levels (the rise of the AFL was on the back of the NRL not listening)

They hit record lows and thought "crap, we are biting the hand that's feeding us"
They started listening

I don't think the AFL has the intelligence as an organisation to admit they're wrong, and the league has a lot further to fall than the nrl did

 

[Dragz]

If we don't go out of our way to get coaching about rugby tackles, we'd be mad. %100 that's what we should do, hit hard. Nashy has shown it can be done.

heckin'g joke of a decision.

 

[Mitchell Madness]

If we don't go out of our way to get coaching about rugby tackles, we'd be mad. %100 that's what we should do, hit hard. Nashy has shown it can be done.

*ingg joke of a decision.

Until they ban those. Whiplash is a big issue in the rugby codes

 

[Gaston]

So from this moment on the incoming AFL ceo will be referred to as Andrew " I'll leave it at that" Dillon

He is a peanut, have you seen him talking to the Tasmanian senate?
Same scenario as tonight, didn't listen, dismissive of their thoughts and told them it was the AFL road or none.
The guy is a self entitled pr!ck.

 

[Brucie Buffer]

I am seriously losing interest in this game.
I don’t want to see a player hurt, but when you play a contact sport you know the risk of incidental contact.
There will be supporters from other clubs with a smirk on their face, but this doesn’t just affect us, this changes the way our once great game will be played from here in.
The game doesn’t get better from here. Maybe if you had more than a couple of holding the balls per 50 odd tackles the players wouldn’t need to put them to the ground.
Don’t know what the answer is but David King suggested we shouldn’t tackle a player to the ground and if that’s the case I might as well go and watch netball.
Love this club but really starting to not give a shit about the game.
Maybe I’m getting old and not progressive enough, I’m ok with that too because I can always go back and watch the premierships that I’ve been privelidged enough to witness in my life.
Go Hawks
AFL

 

[Judd2Sewell]

Garbage