News Pies Player-Toucher banned for rest of 2024.

[Sarcoidevo]

If it was a Saints player getting a hug the Saints player would have got 6 weeks

 

[MC Extra Dollop]

NFL don't seem to have a problem with it

The players (who instigate these interactions by jumping up) do get fined for this stuff though, don't they? I thought they were super strict with all the excessive celebration stuff: the 'No Fun League' and all that.

I would have thought that when this happens , it's generally like a touchdown to seal the win and the players earn too much to worry about a 10k fine or whatever.

 

[Sarcoidevo]

Apparently it's in the rules as long as its only the player who scores

 

[Miluxx]

Looked like zero malice in it but fair enough that the AFL don't want to set a precedent that such contact is okay.

It's the worst bit being there was no malice in it. Nothing but love. But it just can't happen.

 

[TaylorMade]

Same bloke as mentioned here?

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[FireKrakouer]

Same bloke as mentioned here?

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If so, it looks like he was fined for punching a guy who was mocking a kid with downs syndrome. I'd say that if anything that adds to his "good bloke" status.

 

[Lavender Bushranger]

We should just ban nuffs from the football.

Empty stadiums aren't popular.

 

[Lavender Bushranger]

Can't the dude just rock up and pay cash for a ticket?

 

[Jeremias]

Can't the dude just rock and pay cash for a ticket?

Yes, luckily he isn't recognizable and has no easily identifiable markings, so he should be able to slip past anyone looking out for him with relative ease.

 

[Chief]

Can't the dude just rock and pay cash for a ticket?

Yep nobody would pick him out in a crowd.

 

[Lavender Bushranger]

Yes, luckily he isn't recognizable and has no easily identifiable markings, so he should be able to slip past anyone looking out for him with relative ease.

Haha.

But who's going to be looking out for him?

 

[Rotayjay]

We need to remember that the field is a workplace for the players. They consent to being touched by the other players within the rules, but not to being touched by randoms in the grandstands.

 

[Rotayjay]

Can't the dude just rock up and pay cash for a ticket?

Even with today's facial recognition technology, I honestly don't believe security would devote sufficient attention or resources to spot him out of thousands of tattooed blokes who walk into the ground.

It's not like he's a terrorist on the Interpol most wanted list - he's some Joe Blow banned for a year. Security wouldn't have the time or care to find him. I think these bans effectively rely on the banned person fearing what might happen if they are caught circumventing the ban.

 

[Angus Young]

Once again no discretion or common sense used in the most sanitized, strict, woke, pc, nanny state country in the world.

At least Australia goes hard on murderers, oh wait you 15 to 20 years if you take a life.

Messed up.

 

[Maddo11]

Once again no discretion or common sense used in the most sanitized, strict, woke, pc, nanny state country in the world.

At least Australia goes hard on murderers, oh wait you 15 to 20 years if you take a life.

Messed up.

 

[PizzaPie]

It's their workplace. In no other workplace are you permitted to grab an employee without their express permission.

What do you think would happen in a workplace if someone hugged someone else in a similar enough way to be comparable? It's fine to say it's not permitted, but what happens next? Any nuance to it?

 

[Rabish Binney]

Even with today's facial recognition technology, I honestly don't believe security would devote sufficient attention or resources to spot him out of thousands of tattooed blokes who walk into the ground.

It's not like he's a terrorist on the Interpol most wanted list - he's some Joe Blow banned for a year. Security wouldn't have the time or care to find him. I think these bans effectively rely on the banned person fearing what might happen if they are caught circumventing the ban.

 

[Corn Cobbers]

Yep nobody would pick him out in a crowd.

He definitely stands out because the rest of us look scruffy and uncouth

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[Robertio]

There was no malice in it, the player wasn't concerned by it so i reckon he was hard done by, discretion should've came into it and the guy could've been reprimanded for touching a player.

 

[stallon]

There was no malice in it, the player wasn't concerned by it so i reckon he was hard done by, discretion should've came into it and the guy could've been reprimanded for touching a player.

He got off lightly already, could and probably should have been the full 12 months

 

[PTizzle]

Mistake made, guy has admitted it was a mistake and is happy to cop the punishment, move on.

 

[Philth]

Mistake made, guy has admitted it was a mistake and is happy to cop the punishment, move on.

Jeez, where's the fun in that?

We must analyze it to death first. And offer many opinions.

 

[Attempted Moustache]

He should’ve been punished by being made to watch West Coast play for the next 12 months.

That’s what I call a deterrent.

 

[Saab NLAW]

It happens all the time after a game finishes, people reaching out to tap a player on the shoulder

 

[Maddo11]

It happens all the time after a game finishes, people reaching out to tap a player on the shoulder

Yeah, when the players choose to go and interact with the fans