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And Bedford will also miss 3 weeks - after the first two appeals tonight, it's pretty clear that if you tackle & you're opponent is concussed, you'll be spending time on the sidelines
Reasons:
We find that this tackle was rough conduct. A reasonable player in Bedford’s circumstances would have realised that by leaping at Taranto in the way that he did from behind, he was likely to drive him into the ground.
A reasonable player would have realised Taranto was in a vulnerable position and was being driven into the ground with force, and that Toronto's head may well hit the ground with force.
A reasonable player would have released at least one of Taronto's arms to enable him to attempt to brace for impact.
We find that this may well have meaningfully reduced the impact. As it was, the impact was severe.
AgreedTackle the player with ball
Dont let him get ball away
All with force and momentum to ensure tackle is effective.
Both going to ground - forward
Make decision to see contact with ground coming.
Choose non ball holding arm that is tackling player with ball.
Release arm to allow player to brace for contact.
Let player now braced for contact absorb said contact.
And reapply tackle.
All in less than 1 sec.
Good ****ing luck. Again, the head is to be protected and actions taken to protect player welfare is required. Get the thuggery our of the game %10000.
The off the ball stuff has to go and if Bedford gets 3 weeks then the off the ball elbow gets 6.
You also cannot teach a game one way and expect players to circumvent physics laws that have been and will be in play long after AFL game is gone.
No dog in this fight - but it cant 3 weeks IMO.
GO Catters
Too much weight given to the outcome versus the action
Agreed
What i would have done for the 2 tackles and elbow is
Bedford no case or at most 1 week
Cameron 3 weeks is about correct
Elbow 5+ weeks
Bed ford a week based on the outcome but the mechanism was IMO about as good as you can be. And he also seesmt os wing his legs away from the forward momentum to slow the forward momentum - although that could be an outcome of Taranto movements tooAgreed
What i would have done for the 2 tackles and elbow is
Bedford no case or at most 1 week
Cameron 3 weeks is about correct
Elbow 5+ weeks
Cameron does not deserve three weeks. One, sure. Three is a ridiculous and the AFL's reasoning was insane even by their standards.Agreed
What i would have done for the 2 tackles and elbow is
Bedford no case or at most 1 week
Cameron 3 weeks is about correct
Elbow 5+ weeks
Just on the concussion stuff but am I the only one who thinks the pre-finals bye should be a pre-Grand Final bye because it hasn't happened yet but I imagine very soon we will see someone potentially miss the GF with a concussion that wasn't their fault...
They did it once and it resulted in an insanely high scoring GF and I am amazed the AFL haven't done it since.I can see the merit, but then you'd be dirty as a team and fan base if you came into the GF hot but had to cool your heels for a week....
They did it once and it resulted in an insanely high scoring GF and I am amazed the AFL haven't done it since.
I dunno we did pretty well after both weeks off last time we played finals.I once would've been fearful if it were us given how incompetent we were after a week off.......
I dunno we did pretty well after both weeks off last time we played finals.