Moloney contests 2 week offer

[Barry Schneider]

Did you also hear the interview with Bartel? Said he thought he would have put out his hands to prevent the fall, if he had been expecting his head to hit the ground?

It was a comment on the nature of the charge of rough play and not this incident which I haven't seen.
I heard Bartel saying he didn't think he was that clumsy that he would fall over without being collected.He obviously thought there was something in it.

 

[Scorpio]

It's true. Heard it from 3AW.

 

[Patronus]

yes but i dont think its physically impossible to in just 1/4 of a second

But if Bartel had just fallen over and was not hit by Moloney, like Melbourne are trying to say, then he would have had a lot more than the 1/4 of a second to put his hands out to break his fall.

 

[Hornet]

Hearing has finished. Moloney found guilty and got two weeks.

Correct decision

 

[Super Demon]

Disgraceful if true

what a complete joke

 

[Yze_Magic]

This Game Is Becoming Netball

********ing Pathetic

 

[pazza]

Well..that was a waste of everyone's time and money..yet again.

As it is, his loss seems to be able to be covered with the Demon list.

 

[Joffaboy]

This Game Is Becoming Netball

********ing Pathetic

Poor decision one week at most

Seriously though, I think it is a poor decision and Moloney didn't deserve to get anything IMHO. Obviously the League is trying to be consistant in the light of the Guerra incident last season and Pickett in this years pre-season.

Still, a Hawthorn kid gets his face smashed in by a Cowboy Bob Orton protective brace and the AFl lovechild gets nothing.

Funny old system we have.

 

[Demon ADI]

JOKE = AFL Tribunal

 

[Yze_Magic]

We may as well change names from the AFL to the ANL - Australian Netball League



PATHETIC

 

[Hornet]

We may as well change names from the AFL to the ANL - Australian Netball League



PATHETIC

 

[hahaha]

We may as well change names from the AFL to the ANL - Australian Netball League



PATHETIC

Violin?

 

[monoccular]

JOKE = AFL Tribunal

Apparently a malicious low-life type of act ie eye gouge (Scotland)

= dubious at best unproven contact on a falling player by another attempting to avoid contact!!!!

Absolutely no sense of proportion or relativity!

 

[pazza]

Bleed, Bleed, BLEED

This just proves one thing:

Andrew McKay, Peter Schwab and Peter Carey know footy. Shame 99% of people in here don't.

MOVE ON.

 

[saintsrule]

Fair call. Old adage, you do the crime you do the time.

 

[JUBJUB]

Did you also hear the interview with Bartel? Said he thought he would have put out his hands to prevent the fall, if he had been expecting his head to hit the ground?

He wouldn't answer the question if Moloney's hip hit him in the head .
If he didn't connect,surely Jimmy would've said so in the interview .

Time to accept the penalty and move on.

 

[hotpie]

Again a fair decision. The head must be protected.

 

[Harvey to Hayes]

I'm glad Moloney's not playing because I rate him, but that decision is an absolute disgrace. I watched it live on TV and saw nothing and have seen the replay a dozen times and still have seen nothing. Glad the Cat is OK because I rate him too and didn't want him to be badly hurt but there was no way the injury was caused by Moloney's hit.

One positive for Dees fans is that the way we're playing at the moment you should still make it 8-straight against us in a canter......

 

[saintsrule]

H to H you've got it very wrong this time. And don't pander to the likes of oozay!

 

[melbournemartin]

well we have both lost a midfielder, harvey n moloney so i guesswe are both disadvantaged slightly in that department.

 

[saintsrule]

Didn't you hear? Harvey is a chance.

 

[mickrocks1]

How does an eye gouge and this have the same penalty. Eye gouging couldn't even be confused as being apart of football, and it puts a taint on our game. Moloney was, perhaps, reckless, even though I think he tried to get out of the way, and only just struck Bartel on the shoulder. Doesn't make sense to me.

 

[w00dy]

i heard the report of the hearing on SEN and it sounds like the hearing was a farce...

melbourne were very maticulous in their defence... they had doc larkins in saying that he could tell from the video that there was no contact... they had different camera angles which showed that there was no contact... moloney told what was going through his mind... he initially thought bartel was going to get the ball so he went in to tackle him, once he realised that the ball had gone past him, he did everything he could to get out of his way, he side steped to the right and jumped slightly as bartels head passed his hip...

whilst melbourne produced strong evidence that there was no contact, the prosecution didn't do anything at all really to proove that contact was made...

the chairman advised the committee that even if contact was not made, if they believed that moloney's actions were rough, they could find him guilty (this would open up a huge pandora's box)...

however the jury simply accepted the decision of the review panel, they said that contact was made despite the fact that melbourne strongly argued that there was no contact, with virtually no opposition... and moloney's two weeks stand...

melbourne said they would consider their position in the next 12 hours... i have no doubt they will appeal this disgraceful decision...

 

[saintsrule]

Eye gouge was not mentioned at the tribunal, because that was never an issue, did not happen. Contact to the head was, so same deal.

 

[jackdidntdoit]

Doesnt deserve a suspension from what i saw. His eyes werent on the man at all, and bartel looked to slip over a bit.

yep