Peter Wright contact with Harry Cunningham: Pleads Guilty and Receives 4 Week Suspension

[Maddo11]

If Wright had made an attempt at the ball there'd be no case to answer

 

[citizen-erased]

Is that the essendon edge? Maybe try winning the footy

we did win the footy. just didn't use it well

 

[brutus76]

So what we he trying to do?

Impact the contest and prevent him from marking the ball making it a 50/50 ground ball - was clumsily done

 

[Swanssince91]

we did win the footy. just didn't use it well

Not when the game was on the line

 

[citizen-erased]

Not when the game was on the line

quite clearly.
but we're developing.

 

[Gavin Excell]

Ch9 saying Essendon acknowledge guilt and will argue 3 weeks
AFL pushing for 4

 

[LukeParkerno1]

But I thought Wright wasn’t at fault?

4 weeks was about right though happy with 3 just so Port fans go nuts could be well worth it

 

[Tadpole]

 

[LukeParkerno1]

And there we have it 4 weeks

Easiest decision of the year despite what some say

 

[brutus76]

4 weeks - good luck to the next AFL player that gets put up as that's the new measuring stick - SPP got 4 weeks I thought 3 was about right but we move on.

Now remember kids you can't use your upper body ANYMORE so if you can't spoil with your fist use your knees to break their ribs or cave their face in as you'll have nothing to answer for but if you bust a knee, leg or ankle in the process we'll trade or delist you

 

[BG32]

Atleast 4

told ya'll campaigners

 

[LukeParkerno1]

4 weeks - good luck to the next AFL player that gets put up as that's the new measuring stick - SPP got 4 weeks I thought 3 was about right but we move on.

Now remember kids you can't use your upper body ANYMORE so if you can't spoil with your fist use your knees to break their ribs or cave their face in as you'll have nothing to answer for but if you bust a knee, leg or ankle in the process we'll trade or delist you

No you just can’t concuss players do not believe for one second it was a brace (wasn’t deliberate just a poor decision). Both sides agree he was negligent that doesn’t make him a thug just in this instance he made a poor call. Tribunal didn’t take long and they have it bang on.

 

[Wahooti Fandango]

Precedent set.

 

[Maddo11]

4 weeks - good luck to the next AFL player that gets put up as that's the new measuring stick - SPP got 4 weeks I thought 3 was about right but we move on.

Now remember kids you can't use your upper body ANYMORE so if you can't spoil with your fist use your knees to break their ribs or cave their face in as you'll have nothing to answer for but if you bust a knee, leg or ankle in the process we'll trade or delist you

 

[Pacman82]

4 weeks, that's horse****!

 

[LukeParkerno1]

Precedent set.

It was in the SPP case, it was last year barring the Maynard thing. They have been consistent

 

[HairyO]

4 weeks - good luck to the next AFL player that gets put up as that's the new measuring stick - SPP got 4 weeks I thought 3 was about right but we move on.

Now remember kids you can't use your upper body ANYMORE so if you can't spoil with your fist use your knees to break their ribs or cave their face in as you'll have nothing to answer for but if you bust a knee, leg or ankle in the process we'll trade or delist you

Meanwhile all rational people knew that this was a 4 week penalty from their first viewing.

He had options. He chose to defend himself with zero thought for his opponent. If decisions like this drive the slow thinkers out of the sport it can only be a good thing.

 

[LukeParkerno1]

Meanwhile all rational people knew that this was a 4 week penalty from their first viewing.

He had options. He chose to defend himself with zero thought for his opponent. If decisions like this drive the slow thinkers out of the sport it can only be a good thing.

Yep honestly we love the sport but you know what I love just as much, players having a quality of life post football. This was a 4 week minimum

 

[Swanssince91]

You could've stopped a freight train in that time,
He chose to bump and leave the ground

The player couldn't defend himself

 

[Seb78]

4 weeks, that's horse****!

Sadly, we will see a lot more players pulling out of contests from here on. Clearly, whether a collision is intentional or not is irrelevant, either way you are looking at weeks on the sidelines if contact is high.

 

[Pleasedonot]

Meanwhile all rational people knew that this was a 4 week penalty from their first viewing.

He had options. He chose to defend himself with zero thought for his opponent. If decisions like this drive the slow thinkers out of the sport it can only be a good thing.

"Thought" doing a lot of work there - it is the definition of f@cking split second instinctive act. If we were actually serious at punishing intent in this bush league of a comp Kozzie Pickett wouldn't have gotten fully HALF of what Wright got for his dog act on Smith.

 

[FrustratedTiger]

Good on Essendon for seeing the writing on the wall and not dragging biomechanists out to carp on about every millisecond of footage. They owned it, didn't try and turn Cunningham into the party at fault, and will now brush themselves off and get on with next week. I didn't know they had that in them.

 

[.Shotties.]

Precedent set.

Yep, if you choose to not contest the ball and instead protect yourself, which leads to the concussion of another player, you'll probably be suspended.

 

[LukeParkerno1]

Sadly, we will see a lot more players pulling out of contests from here on. Clearly, whether a collision is intentional or not is irrelevant, either way you are looking at weeks on the sidelines if contact is high.

Don’t go high then and players will get the message and change their ways they already have since the crackdown has occurred game is safer than it’s ever been

 

[Pleasedonot]

Yep honestly we love the sport but you know what I love just as much, players having a quality of life post football. This was a 4 week minimum

This sort of split second incidental contact is literally unavoidable in a game like Aussie Rules. Sure, there are plenty more deliberate or careless acts which need to be stamped out for the sake of avoiding concussion incidents, but not a single Swans fan has prosecuted a convincing case as to how Wright was in any way culpable of doing anything except what basically all players would do in that scenario.