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Pretty sure under AFL guidelines they don’t consider previous incidents or rulings (dead set, it’s in their guidelines).Degoey was 4 games ago, not 4 years.
The AFL is not in the habit of grading these type of incidents deliberate. They are extremely careless incidents in terms of contact to the head, but it will be seen as careless, rather than deliberate.
Under current Tribunal rules, reported players are entitled to use precedents from the current season in their arguments and DeGoey is the most relevant precedent to the Nankervis case, where the reported player clearly elects to bump and it is a step after the concussed player has released the ball. The action is the same. The result is the same. The timing is the same.
The Tribunal is not able to say things have changed in the last 5 weeks due to other cases occurring similar to this in that time. In fact the opposite is the case. They are now bound by the outcomes of those cases. To do otherwise would be perfectly reasonable grounds for appeal.
No error the AFL Tribunal makes shocks me now after the farcical Mansell case, but if they gave Nankervis more than the recent DeGoey bump then it would most certainly be inequitable as the two incidents are the same in all important factors and so the Tribunal is bound by the precedent case.