MRP / Trib. Pickett elbow on Soligo

[JasRulz63]

You'd think he should get a week with the rule that states any high bumps that constitutes rough conduct with the potential to cause injury gets a minimum of medium impact, even if the contact is low.

 

[Mitchell Madness]

Maynard rule has its first real test.
Half arse attemot to smother. Turns the body...

 

[Xtreme]

12 weeks

Zero regard for the safety of other players

 

[CrowToon]

Should be 10 for going after one of the game's greats. Why do we allow these people to play the game. Him and Maynard should be banned for life.

 

[kreuze_missile]

2 weeks.

Plus an extra week for being a repeat offender.

 

[SplintWhisky]

Will get 1 week which should be 2 because he looked to pull the elbow out as he turned to make contact.

 

[TY24]

Should be graded as intentional, high contact, low impact.

Can’t believe that intentional isn’t an automatic one week suspension. We need to stamp this dirty shit out.

 

[Miluxx]

Bloke is a dead set flog. Simply no explanation for hanging the arm out other than "I want to clip this bloke in the head"

Will only get a week but should be 4 as a repeat offender.

This x100. How many times does this bloke get the opportunity to keep whacking people. It wasn't a massive impact but his history should be taken into account.

 

[maskmcgee]

We should give him the Steven Baker treatment, 12 weeks should straighten him out.

 

[Tadpole]

Definitely not the worst hit I've seen by any means (not quite Time Sniper, but he's on his way). He should get a week or two for that.

 

[SplintWhisky]

Should be graded as intentional, high contact, low impact.

Can’t believe that intentional isn’t an automatic one week suspension. We need to stamp this dirty s**t out.

That is actually a great point. You can get a longer suspension if you accidently collide with someone and cause a concussion than if you snipe someone intentionally and don't cause one.

 

[TY24]

That is actually a great point. You can get a longer suspension if you accidently collide with someone and cause a concussion than if you snipe someone intentionally and don't cause one.

Yep, if an intentional grading becomes an automatic suspension watch this sort of stuff as well as the gut punches and jumper punches disappear overnight

 

[Demonic Ascent]

Should be nothing but because the AFL hates Melbourne he'll get a week. Our players always seem to be the ones the tribunal loves to make an example of.

I would love for the club to appeal any suspension and use the human frisbee defense.

 

[TY24]

Should be nothing but because the AFL hates Melbourne he'll get a week. Our players always seem to be the ones the tribunal loves to make an example of.

I would love for the club to appeal any suspension and use the human frisbee defense.

I think you'll find the AFL hates people throwing late elbows to the head, actually

 

[SplintWhisky]

Should be nothing but because the AFL hates Melbourne he'll get a week. Our players always seem to be the ones the tribunal loves to make an example of.

I would love for the club to appeal any suspension and use the human frisbee defense.

This wouldnt be an anti-Melbourne sentiment because of the precedent of King and Windhager. Pickett pulled the Elbow out and that is something that we should always look to punish. I am not too sure when it changed but I remember in juniors back in the 2000s I was told that if you raise an elbow you will be sent off and rubbed out.

 

[Stax on the mill]

Blatantly high and late. He was lucky, that as in the Bailey Smith

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incident, his victim wasn’t seriously hurt. No thanks to Pickett though.

He’s a serial offender this faux tough guy. Just doesn’t get it. 2 weeks.

 

[Bushdid911]

I get supporting your club and its players but how on earth do you reasonably look at the Maynard one and go he needs a long ban, and Pickett you say "nothing to see here, move along".

Like we've gone from being a one-eyed supporter to being an actual blind one.

 

[Demonic Ascent]

I think you'll find the AFL hates people throwing late elbows to the head, actually

"Elbows"

 

[Demonic Ascent]

This wouldnt be an anti-Melbourne sentiment because of the precedent of King and Windhager. Pickett pulled the Elbow out and that is something that we should always look to punish. I am not too sure when it changed but I remember in juniors back in the 2000s I was told that if you raise an elbow you will be sent off and rubbed out.

He didn't raise the elbow give me a spell

 

[Obeanie1]

He’ll somehow only get 1 week, not learn his lesson and then go jumping into someone else’s head again later this season. Very clear he wants to hurt players and doesn’t care about the rules. He will seriously hurt someone at some point in his career

At some point the AFL will need to make an example of Pickett. Its obvious he's a try hard little sh!t who is desperate to emulate his famous uncle and iron blokes out.

Pickets continues to elect to jump off the ground and bump players high. In this instance an elbow to the head resulted.

Lucky the impact was not high as it would have broken a jaw if he got him flush. And it's only a matter of time before Pickett does some real damage if he doesn't stop jumping and bumping.

 

[Obeanie1]

1 week punishment as I believe he sent Soligo a bottle of wine and played golf with him before the game even finished!

Just thanking him for not having a glass jaw?

 

[Jibroni]

He will get off as we will use either Carlton’s or Collingwood’s lawyer.

 

[Brend81]

Those saying more than 2 weeks have no idea it would need to be graded as high impact which it wasn’t will be graded as either low impact which is a fine or medium impact which is a week it can’t be anymore than that as soligo wasn’t hurt

 

[Vankri]

I get supporting your club and its players but how on earth do you reasonably look at the Maynard one and go he needs a long ban, and Pickett you say "nothing to see here, move along".

Like we've gone from being a one-eyed supporter to being an actual blind one.

Yep and the biggest absurdity of it all is that the entire system is based off outcome versus intent, when outcome is much more heavily influenced by sheer luck and by the actual individuals in play.

Tu use your example someone like Brayshaw, especially after taking a hit to the head a few minutes earlier like he did against the Pies, could have ended up concussed by this same action, and as a result of repeat concussions sent into retirement. Does this mean the punishment should differ? I think it would be more important to assess the intentionality harsher, for example Pickets elbow is clearly a deliberate move to hurt so that should matter more than the concussion or not.

 

[SplintWhisky]

He didn't raise the elbow give me a spell

Arms raised for the Spoil


Arms down and pinned down to make contact


Twists the body and positions elbow to be flush with the face. Elbow is now behind the the side on of his torso where in the above picture is was in line