MRP / Trib. MRP and Tribunal - 2024 - Finals Week 1

[SC_Power]

I mistimed smother that ended someones career and resulted in 0 weeks, a mistimed tackle gets you 3 weeks.

Both Cripps & Maynard decisions are the worst in recent history, funnily enough both play for big Victorian clubs and had milestones riding on the outcome.

Could add Cotchin to that list.
On the flip side, Barry Hall and Andrew Dunkley want to apply to join this select group (Edit as South Melbourne members lol)

 

[Purple7x08_24]

What a sad day for our game. Can’t fathom how anyone could possibly believe these guys deserve to miss weeks.

And potentially a Brownlow

 

[Fadge]

If I was tribunal chairman, I'd be giving Bedford a stern warning and reprimand but he would be let off, I wouldn't have suspended him in the first place.

As for Cameron, his attack on Duggan was quite brutal and somewhat unnecessary so the suspension would stand IMO.

What would the stern warning be for?

'Refrain from chasing and applying a tackle in the future'?

 

[CarterS]

Do the AFL want tackles to involve holding players in a standing position from now on?

 

[LukeParkerno1]

In true AFL fashion watch the Suns bloke get off

 

[Fadge]

Do the AFL want tackles to involve holding players in a standing position from now on?

That is basically where it's heading...

 

[Dazza the Viking]

Bedford getting 3 weeks, is just disgusting and embarrassing to the game of AFL

If Hawthorn wasn’t in the AFL, I would give the game the boot, it’s becoming soft as butter

 

[p4p1]

Wonder how much the fine will be that the Giants cop for that?

Worth it

 

[RAPPA]

In true AFL fashion watch the Suns bloke get off

Would be like the token free kick given to a side that’s lost the free kick count 30-10

 

[Hollow Knight]

Bedford getting 3 weeks, is just disgusting and embarrassing to the game of AFL

If Hawthorn wasn’t in the AFL, I would give the game the boot, it’s becoming soft as butter

Yep, people love their clubs way more than the sport these days, and that’s entirely on the AFL.

 

[LSRU]

I wasn't referring to any specific example.

It's completely inconsistent when you're watching a game when some umpires sometimes immediately blow the whistle for a ball up, and other times let the tackle linger and ping the player for holding the ball.

Maybe it's different umpires applying the rules differently?

I'd like to see all umpires consistently do what you do, and blow the whistle quickly when a player is tackled without prior opportunity, and when they have prior opportunity give them the opportunity to release the ball legally (and ping them if they don't or can't).

Yeah agree it all seems pretty simple. Individual interpretation is definitely a factor. It gets a bit grey considering the AFL doesn’t want stoppages and you have blokes like Cripps who can perhaps fight through a tackle. If safety is the factor though a blanket rule seems to be the way to go.
Think most umpires just want the ball “knocked out in the tackle” so we don’t have to make a decision. Probably why there is so many throws these days.

 

[luthor]

High farce just became higher.

May as well just ban tackling

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[Elixuh]

As soon as the Cameron ban was upheld, GWS should have just gone home.

 

[CarterS]

This has to relate to the concussion court cases, one of the journalists whats his name Ralph said there are hundreds of former players lining up to sue the AFL??

 

[LSRU]

Do the AFL want tackles to involve holding players in a standing position from now on?

Seems that way. Cuddles will replace tackles on the stat sheet.

 

[SC_Power]

Bedford getting 3 weeks, is just disgusting and embarrassing to the game of AFL

If Hawthorn wasn’t in the AFL, I would give the game the boot, it’s becoming soft as butter

True story.

Showed the video to my better half (who doesn’t follow anything except when the game is on) and asked her to pick the reportable offence.
She watched the entire footage twice, and said to me “Was it the high tackle by the GWS #37?” which was 25 seconds after the Bedford tackle.

Couldn’t have said it better myself.

 

[eddiesmith]

Upheld. The game is cooked.

Apparently “feet getting tangled” is a foreseeable outcome of a tackle that players have to now account for.

About time the tribunal grew some balls, let far too many players off this year.

 

[CarterS]

 

[BobbyMorri]

Just posting my "reasonable" outrage over the Bedford decision.

Stop punishing the outcome. Accidents happen. The only player who tried to hurt someone only got 1 week. The only player who was careless got 3.

The other 2 were complete accidents, especially Bedford. If the player didnt get concussed, then would they have been sighted......

 

[Ambrosia]

The stand up tackle era is nearly upon us. All Bedford did was make a desperate lunging tackle

 

[Orange Agent]

How bad is the reasoning? Should have released one arm? How the **** do you do that?

 

[CrowToon]

People need to stop blaming the AFL on this and start looking at Parliament and the Courts. They are the ones that write, interpret and develop laws that allow for people to sue in this way.

It's the same as people yelling at cops for giving them a fine or at teachers for not stopping bullying - they cop the brunt because noone actually thinks about the fact that they didn't make the rules.

 

[Dazb86]

Wtf is happening to the game?

 

[JT_the_Man]

I actually don’t even know the case Bedford is answering for. Textbook tackle, sometimes shit happens.

 

[The Flying Belgian]

So am I correct in the AFL are suggesting that players perform hip-drop tackles? Cause there are other football codes that are busy outlawing that.