MRP - Dawes one week

[MinerBoy]

....and so the lotto continues.

 

[OB1]

How the hell is that incident even looked at let alone judged to be 1 week? Incidental contact to the head in an attempt to tackle. I would love Dawes to miss Monday, but not for BS like that. Compare it to Waite's deliberate kick & you have to wonder if the MRP are the ones who should be drug tested. Hell even compare it to Brown's & the Dawes incident is softer.

 

[Rustin Cohle]

Challenge. He shouldn't miss ANZAC day because of that crap.

 

[thecig]

MRP is a joke.
It was a high tackle, there was no intent.
Surely we'll challenge it.

 

[tugga]

SO Dawes gets a week for basically nothing and Campbell Brown nearly elbows a kid's head off and gets two?

 

[NT.Thunder]

AFL has now made it's quota for the week.

Congrats Demitriou you SPUD

 

[HyperAgressiveDonk]

As bad as the Rioli suspension. Disgraceful

 

[Cynic]

oh dear.

This is getting worse every week.

At least I don't feel quite as bad about the Rioli suspension. I mean, at least Rioli was actually trying to assert himself. Dawes' only crime was being slow. Never knew that was a suspendable offense?

Agree.

Rioli's was bad but how the fricking hell does that constitute a strike?

 

[mattys123]

SO Dawes gets a week for basically nothing and Campbell Brown nearly elbows a kid's head off and gets two?

This was always going to come back and bite the AFL on the arse for not challenging the ruling on Browns' hit last week.

Brown should have got at least 4 for that hit, and then you could maybe consider Dawes' hit punishable, but not if you compare the two.

Basically what the AFL are saying to all of us is that the Dawes hit is half as bad as the Brown hit.

 

[WakeUpPies]

MRP on a Monday morning....

 

[GreekLunatic]

The hawks should have challenged rioli's he would have got off. Our game is becoming soft. Guys can kick ppl in the nuts and get off whats the world comming 2.

 

[ajlaw9]

Good for us but it's a joke of a decision. Surely Collingwood will appeal?

 

[jefffff34]

Genuinely tempted to ring the club to tell them to ****ing appeal that.

 

[FIGJAM]

FMD!

 

[bradrowe#32]

Are they ****ing kidding?

 

[Timmy from Thomastown]

Meh its only Essendon.

Dawes gets a week to freshen up for the Bulldogs after a long preseason campaign and at the same time wipes the slate clean on his carryover points, nice and early in the season.

MRP is doing the Pies a favour.

 

[Zeke]

That's a pretty baffling result.

MRP is, as had been stated many times before, a joke.

 

[Onestitch]

Gimmeee Judge Judy....NOW!!!!!

 

[im_a_lazy_sod]

Anyone got footage of the Pav incident?

Was at the game so didn't notice it - but will have a look tonight when I can get a hold of the replay

FYI Pav would have gotten a week but his 5 year good record gave him a reduction to 70 or 90 points or something

 

[kelvin_sheedy]

Correct decision.

Dawes knew what he was doing and put a sly one in.

If it wasn't for carry over points he'd be playing. This time the system wins.

 

[astrowizzle]

Not the softest i have seen but the strike is nothing. However the tribuneral will say it was done with intent because he wasnt looking at the ball only the the head of the player he struck. Don't want him to miss coz want the young guys to play against the best pies they can.

 

[Dr Pool]

I am furious.

 

[Bennett.]

Terrible decision, but YAY for us!!

 

[LukeParkerno1]

It was stupid and he needs to learn to not do dumb things. As a Pies supporter I'd be happy it happened in April rather than September!

 

[FIGJAM]

It was stupid and he needs to learn to not do dumb things.

Like go for the ball?

How did Matthew Knights get your login details??