Patrick Dangerfield 'dangerous tackle' - gone or safe?

[Pistol Night]

AFL HQ, and the rules committee have ****ed with our game for too long.
Unrecognisable to what we all fell in love watching.

Sling tackles i get but to grab a hand to prevent disposal and fall to the ground with the player is the perfect tackle

 

[TW Sherrin]

Not sure how he can argue with the penalty. Pins both arms and Walsh's head hits the ground. Thought this is an easy one.

Not great from ALPA President who should be setting an example in this area and take his medicine.

 

[Art Vandelay_]

 

[Liam Boy]

He should go for this, the hip drop with both arms pinned is seriously dangerous, it doesn't look like the sling tackles that normally get penalised but it's just as dangerous and unnecessary. If you pin a guy's arms and bring them down hard and fast like that, a concussion is a likely outcome. I don't think it matters what Danger was actually trying to do here, the tackler has a duty of care not to injure their opponent through an unnecessary second action, which I think the hip drop qualifies for. He didn't have to flick his legs out in front of him and should have tried to keep his feet.

 

[Nugett]

Dangerfield, like his former compatriots in GAJ and Joel Selwood will get off on the “Good bloke” defence. 1 rule for some, other rules for others.

 

[Ricky Vaughn]

Dangerfield, like his former compatriots in GAJ and Joel Selwood will get off on the “Good bloke” defence. 1 rule for some, other rules for others.

As it should be.

 

[Art Vandelay_]

Dangerfield, like his former compatriots in GAJ and Joel Selwood will get off on the “Good bloke” defence. 1 rule for some, other rules for others.

Selwood once got a month for doing football a service and whacking well known campaigner Brent Guerra.
Should have been given a pardon for that good deed.

 

[Pistol Night]

Selwood once got a month for doing football a service and whacking well known campaigner Brent Guerra.
Should have been given a pardon for that good deed.

Guerra is the only bloke ive ever seen lose his hair twice before 40. Amazing effort

 

[Matera92]

He should go for this, the hip drop with both arms pinned is seriously dangerous, it doesn't look like the sling tackles that normally get penalised but it's just as dangerous and unnecessary. If you pin a guy's arms and bring them down hard and fast like that, a concussion is a likely outcome. I don't think it matters what Danger was actually trying to do here, the tackler has a duty of care not to injure their opponent through an unnecessary second action, which I think the hip drop qualifies for. He didn't have to flick his legs out in front of him and should have tried to keep his feet.

You've never actually tackled somebody at speed before have you?

 

[Art Vandelay_]

Guerra is the only bloke ive ever seen lose his hair twice before 40. Amazing effort

Proof that even his hair hated him.

 

[Bunnings]

Can guarantee if he was in brownlow form he they would have found a way for this to be a fine

He seemed to take all reasonable actions outside of letting Walsh go to protect the guy getting tackled

Yeah maybe if he player for Carlton, he (Danger) tackled Kreuzer in 2017 and copped a week and lost the Brownlow by less than 3 votes

https://www.afl.com.au/news/145957

 

[Bunnings]

Selwood once got a month for doing football a service and whacking well known campaigner Brent Guerra.
Should have been given a pardon for that good deed.

There was no footage of that incident and they gave him a month, so the other poster knows FA about Geelong and the match review panel

 

[Romeoh1]

Dangerfield, like his former compatriots in GAJ and Joel Selwood will get off on the “Good bloke” defence. 1 rule for some, other rules for others.

Yawnies.

 

[BF Tiger]

Yeah maybe if he player for Carlton, he (Danger) tackled Kreuzer in 2017 and copped a week and lost the Brownlow by less than 3 votes

https://www.afl.com.au/news/145957

It wasn't less than three votes, it was three votes. And he didn't lose it because he was ineligible anyway.

 

[Fadge]

Two good points raised On The Couch tonight:

1. What was Dangerfield meant to do in that situation (over to you, AFL) and did he show sufficient duty of care (Yes)?

2. If the AFL are serious about head trauma, how could they have not cited the Rowbottom tackle?

 

[Art Vandelay_]

 

[lily of laguna]

Geelong must've had a win and Dangerfield BoG again.



But in all seriousness maybe give netball.com.au a visit and see if it's more up your alley.

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Once again we are left wondering if Danger is out to hurt players in a manner that is unsportsmanlike.

His tackle on Walsh was pretty “agricultural “ and completely unnecessary in its execution.

Pinning a player’s arms and using his legs as pendulum to slam a player into the turf was overtly dangerous and showed no duty of care.

History shows that he intends to hurt players to assert his dominance and he has been involved in too many incidents that result in injury or suspension to be coincidental.

Then there is the secondary issue of his atrocious kicking skills.


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[unfollowed]

Maybe he should’ve “pirouetted” out of laying a tackle.

 

[seasonedsainter]

He is protected, as is D Moore, who accidentally on purpose threw his knee into Petracca's ribs as the 3rd man up. I encourage everyone to watch that incident again and make up their own mind. Disgraceful the media have not had the guts to question it. Barely got a fingernail to the ball, was a mile away from the contest, but felt the need to extend his leg out in some sort of aerial ballet manoeuvre, directing his full momemtum into Trac's rib cage, for what exactly? As he surely wasn't going for the mark. To protect himself then? Spare me.

At the very least it was extremely unsportsman like, but his reaction afterwards - exiting the scene of the crime like a guilty child - tells me otherwise.

 

[lily of laguna]

Maybe he should’ve “pirouetted” out of laying a tackle.

Or he could have tackled and shown a duty of care like most players do.




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[unfollowed]

Or he could have tackled and shown a duty of care like most players do.

Or he could’ve just ‘pirouetted’ out of the way to avoid any consequences at all.

Dangerfield has laid 1228 tackles in his career at an average of 3.77 per game.

It sounds like you’re insinuating that he doesn’t know how to tackle correctly based on that one instance on Friday.

 

[Bunnings]

It wasn't less than three votes, it was three votes. And he didn't lose it because he was ineligible anyway.

That’s not the point, the point is he is not looked after and never has been

 

[lily of laguna]

Or he could’ve just ‘pirouetted’ out of the way to avoid any consequences at all.

Dangerfield has laid 1228 tackles in his career at an average of 3.77 per game.

It sounds like you’re insinuating that he doesn’t know how to tackle correctly based on that one instance on Friday.

He knows how to tackle, he was tackling to hurt his opponent!

He gets away with a lot of stuff that has thuggery written all over it.

In fact the more I think about it he is Geelong’s Maynard!

Except Maynard is a good kick.


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[CharlieMortdecai]

Or he could’ve just ‘pirouetted’ out of the way to avoid any consequences at all.

Dangerfield has laid 1228 tackles in his career at an average of 3.77 per game.

It sounds like you’re insinuating that he doesn’t know how to tackle correctly based on that one instance on Friday.

Oh he knows alright, but can't help himself but try to injure the other player. Would have been the type to pinch his younger siblings with his best angelic face.

 

[BF Tiger]

That’s not the point, the point is he is not looked after and never has been

So why did you bring Brownlow voting into it? You could have just said IMHO he was unfairly suspended for the Kreuzer incident in 2017. But then he didn't even get looked at for knocking out Vlastuin in 2020. So... swings, roundabouts.