grassman75
Norm Smith Medallist
I mentioned this in the gameday thread as well. From what I can see since the grief the club copped from the Libba incident v. Essendon and then again v. Hawthorn they gone ultra conservative in their assessment of head high contact to players. The Richards one v. Sydney was weird but the Naughton incident was downright baffling.
Look at the hit de Koning receives here, he didn't even go off the ground to be assessed.
Yep…a knee full on to the back of the head and a follow up as hit came down.
And you are saying he didn’t even come off?
That’s rubbish if it’s true….there should be an independent doctor reviewing everything like in the NRL and the ref gets told by someone that x player has to come off. No wonder we struggle when we are prepared to lose our key forward and gun mids whereas other teams will just carry on at all costs