Certified Legendary Thread Patrick Cripps and Ah Chee

[JackFlash]

Somebody must've counted the Brownlow votes? Nobody saw this coming, that was a clear cut 2 weeks in 2022, but somehow we have traveled back in time to 1995!

 

[3KZ is Football]

The charge and the tribunal finding were BS

Carlton needs a hand up. We get that.

 

[Ambrosia]

The AFL needs to update the rules to include duty of care rule if it hopes to survive long term.

These collision based sports have a limited time before they’re deemed too unsafe to play imo.

 

[CakeEater]

Appeal won: Patrick Cripps in the clear over rough conduct charge

Patrick Cripps has sensationally been cleared to play this weekend after the AFL appeals board overturned Tuesday night’s tribunal decision to ban him for two matches on a rough conduct charge.

www.theage.com.au

Complete BS

And now we wait for the AFL tribunal to make Ah Chee pay Cripps legal costs

 

[Falchoon]

It will be interesting to hear the reasons.

it's past bed time would seem to be the prime reason.

 

[The Flying Doormat]

 

[STPer18]

I'm just happy I can go to bed. Five hours well spent!

 

[RAPPA]

Chewbacca defence won it. Never in doubt

 

[tiger_tough]

I'm shocked but also not shocked at all. What a balls up.

 

[BringFevBack2021]

Byron Pickett would feast in today’s AFL

The weakest maggot there ever was, he’d get smashed by real athletes today if he tried to pull those dog shots out

 

[adogsfan5]

Wonder what the new evidence was.

 

[awesome wells]

What a ****ing joke. AFL’s pet

 

[HereComesJuddy]

Somebody must've counted the Brownlow votes? Nobody saw this coming, that was a clear cut 2 weeks in 2022, but somehow we have traveled back in time to 1995!

In 2022 hey? Want to revisit round 1 2022 then?

 

[LukeParkerno1]

Wonder what the new evidence was.

There wasn’t any. It’s an appeal. Appealed on procedures and what not. It’s a technical appeal.

 

[BG32]

Wonder what the new evidence was.

Brownlow predictor

 

[BOMBERS 4 LIFE!!!!]

So that means it's now ok for players bump the head and concus players out

 

[Lockyer24]

The error is yours you silly campaigners.

 

[Hayes4PM]

Wowwwwww, that is wild. Is there a statement yet as to which of the appeals boxes it was deemed this ticked?

 

[Mesc]

Now we just need Carlton to lose the next 2 games . #justice.

 

[aussie59]

Wonder what the new evidence was.

Carlton’s player advocate, Chris Townshend QC, took close to two hours in making his submissions.
In a hearing with increasingly complex legal debate, Townshend argued the tribunal had applied an error of law as Cripps reasonably contested the ball rather than electing to bump, and questioned the interpretation of the AFL “bumping rule” and how it was applied.

He also claimed there was “a denial of natural justice”, which he argued was an error and “would have affected the result”.
“The tribunal’s decision is infected with error and is so unreasonable it requires reversing,” he said.
On Tuesday night, tribunal chairman Jeff Gleeson QC said Cripps would not have been suspended in a different era because he had eyes on the ball while contesting the ball with Ah Chee, however he said Cripps had not acted reasonably when he turned his body into a “classic bumping position” to win the ball.
“He entered the contest at speed and saw a player in his peripheral vision, left his feet and bumped Ah Chee at high speed,” Gleeson said.
MORE TO COME

 

[Stottzy]

Didn't think it deserved 2 weeks anyway. Was just bracing for contact when he had eyes for the ball. Great result.

 

[NonPhixion]

Cripps to win the Brownlow now and spark more controversy

 

[Elmer_Hauser]

Sanity prevails

 

[kaiserchief13]

Appeal won: Patrick Cripps in the clear over rough conduct charge

Patrick Cripps has sensationally been cleared to play this weekend after the AFL appeals board overturned Tuesday night’s tribunal decision to ban him for two matches on a rough conduct charge.

www.theage.com.au

Complete BS

I don't get it.

“The finding was unreasonable and did not comply with the requirements of procedural fairness,” said the appeals board chairman Murray Kellman.

He said there was “an error of law”.

How is the below "an error of law"?

“He entered the contest at speed and saw a player in his peripheral vision, left his feet and bumped Ah Chee at high speed,” Gleeson said.

Sounds like the AFL is trying to get Carlton in finals or at least competitive in last 2 games as they can be

 

[adogsfan5]

There wasn’t any. It’s an appeal. Appealed on procedures and what not. It’s a technical appeal.

Ah ok- someone on fox footy yesterday said there had to be new evidence for an appeal.