MRP / Trib. MRP and Tribunal - 2024 - Rd 23 - The Derby Dustup

[Elixuh]

Can’t keep a good bloke down.

Toby Bedford, we’re not leaving without you buddy. We’re gunna get you out of here.

We did it

 

[Gaben]

Bit happening here

 

[Plugger35]

So Higgins 3 week suspension remains the worst tackle suspension of the year now with both Cameron and Bedford getting off.

 

[BF Tiger]

Surely the AFL is thinking about tearing up the rule book and writing from scratch.

 

[Meteoric Rise]

Surely the AFL is thinking about tearing up the rule book and writing from scratch.

How about just get a Tribunal capable of considering all the correct questions and announcing their thoughts.

Deciding whether a tackle is rough conduct or not may be difficult. Figuring out the right things to be considered to arrive at that decision is EASY.

So this is laughable.

 

[spudmaster]

Well what a cluster**** of a system! End results feel right, but boy, the way of arriving at it was entertaining.

 

[TW Sherrin]

Good bloke got off again.

#VICBIAS

 

[HairyO]

Surely the AFL is thinking about tearing up the rule book and writing from scratch.

The rules are fine. They have no ****ing idea how to enforce them because they are ****ing morons.

 

[Hollow Knight]

Good bloke got off again.

#VICBIAS

Yeah, but apparently Toby Bedford is an absolute bastard... so I'm really confused about what's going on.

 

[Plugger35]

Well what a cluster**** of a system! End results feel right, but boy, the way of arriving at it was entertaining.

That's the way the AFL like it, they drag the drama out all week to get people frothing and then it ends up all being for nothing.

 

[Sewer de Lance]

The AFL must of watched the first 5 minutes of Origin last night before realising just how vanilla the AFL brand is at the moment.

 

[p4p1]

Speculating if it is likely to cause an injury should only be needed if there was no injury in the first place but could have been.

When an injury actually occurs there is no need to speculate on its likelihood of occurring.

Likely is the key word here. Was the action likely to cause an injury? No.

 

[Vindicater]

Good. First one thrown out.

Bedford better get off as well.

And just like that Bedford rightly gets off.

 

[Cmarsh]

What waste of time and money …. The good guys win …. And Brisbane

It's a good point...who actually pays for these lawyers? Does it come down from the pockets of members?

 

[Gaben]

No fewer than 18 posts about Maynard on this thread yet mine are getting deleted by a mod (obviously a collingwood mod) for saying he should have got 6 weeks, classic.. you can't make this shit up.

Right in front of me

 

[p4p1]

Ok Charlie gets off. That’s fair, there’s an argument to be made that his conduct wasn’t unreasonable.

But how do you let a guy off, because “the tribunal didn’t consider whether his actions were likely to cause injury”, when they did cause injury? They don’t need to consider the likelihood, when we know it 100% did.

How does that not apply to Heeney last week then? Heeney grappled with a defender like happens I’d estimate over 1000 times a round. Think if you have 100 inside 50s a game, a forward has pushed off a defender at least once each inside 50. So we have ONE injury from the action performed by Heeney out of say 1000. Is that not unlikely?

Again, something happening one time does not make it a likely outcome.

 

[Freddy Swift]

What an absolute farce. How incompetent is the tribunal? That’s three times now (including the Cripps case) they have stuffed up ‘points of law’. Are they really such idiots?

If I didn’t know better I’d say because of all the backlash this week, the AFL looked for a loophole and found one.

And can people stop saying they were perfect tackles because they weren’t. Someone was concussed in both cases and will miss at least one game. In a perfect tackle, no one is hurt. That’s not to say either was intentional.

 

[Saint12]

What an absolute farce. How incompetent is the tribunal? That’s three times now (including the Cripps case) they have stuffed up ‘points of law’. Are they really such idiots?

If I didn’t know better I’d say because of all the backlash this week, the AFL looked for a loophole and found one.

And can people stop saying they were perfect tackles because they weren’t. Someone was concussed in both cases and will miss at least one game. In a perfect tackle, no one is hurt. That’s not to say either was intentional.

Dermott Brereton said Bedford laid the perfect tackle smh

 

[JackFlash]

Dillon & Kane should resign immediately. The mistake Gil made here was when looking to promote someone to take over his job, he made the cardinal sin that higher-ups so often do, they tend to pick their best employees, i.e the ones who are great at their current job, instead of trying to figure out which employee would be the best at the job they'd be promoted to. Kane was just hired to tick the diversity box and is out of her depth, Dillon was probably very good at the job he was doing, but not the top job. The AFL has a huge problem and it's not just trying to figure out what the AFL stands for in 2024, they want a perfect world and AFL football is far from perfect, it never has been. It's been a wild ride for over 150 years and nobody has ever really understood the rules. What Dillon & Kane are doing is perplexing and it simply won't work.

 

[Underarm]

Dillon & Kane should resign immediately. The mistake Gil made here was when looking to promote someone to take over his job, he made the cardinal sin that higher-ups so often do, they tend to pick their best employees, i.e the ones who are great at their current job, instead of trying to figure out which employee would be the best at the job they'd be promoted to. Kane was just hired to tick the diversity box and is out of her depth, Dillon was probably very good at the job he was doing, but not the top job. The AFL has a huge problem and it's not just trying to figure out what the AFL stands for in 2024, they want a perfect world and AFL football is far from perfect, it never has been. It's been a wild ride for over 150 years and nobody has ever really understood the rules. What Dillon & Kane are doing is perplexing and it simply won't work.

Kane isn't on the tribunal panel so not sure she did anything wrong.

 

[JackFlash]

Kane isn't on the tribunal panel so not sure she did anything wrong.

She is the General Manager of Football, she needs to start managing! Both Dillon and her are responsible for this mess.

 

[jonnobackpocket]

Making Charlie rightly getting off even better is all the snooty nosed little sooks in here stamping their feet because ‘it’s not fair’ or using the ‘good bloke’ thing like it hasn’t been used 10 thousand times this week.

 

[Engimal v3]

I don't know if it's consistent with other results, but I'm glad Cameron got off. It didn't feel like a punishable offence to me.

 

[Stamos]

To be fair the MRO and the whole process has been a complete shitshow for over 3 years now. Its not just her mess from this year. The whole system needs an overhaul

Hopefully tonight’s embarrassment forces them to fix it up.

 

[Satan]

Were trumps lawyers used?