Looking at the target - Yep
Lining him up - Yep
No eyes on ball - Yep
Choosing to throw elbows into Fyfe connecting with head - Yep
So its deliberate, high and looking to cause damage.
Guess its 1 week for Grigg too based on your logic?
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Looking at the target - Yep
Lining him up - Yep
No eyes on ball - Yep
Choosing to throw elbows into Fyfe connecting with head - Yep
So its deliberate, high and looking to cause damage.
Guess its 1 week for Grigg too based on your logic?
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I'd say more than 1.
They should also have looked at Fyfe kicking Grigg in the head when he was on the ground earlier (that was probably an accident, but still worth checking out...It was certainly enough to get the usually calm Grigg fired up, as you can see).
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Your only problem is that Grigg is so soft, his action never actually hit fyfe lol. just watch it, his forearm never connects. So no he wont miss 1 week. Now if you said to give grigg 16 weeks for intent, ill support that decision and not appeal.
Any vision of this "alleged" incident ?.
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It's very harsh, but if he's let off then it opens the door to these types of bumps to the head.
Still hope he gets off.
Still hope he gets off.
telsor
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I'm sure there is, but I don't have it.
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Griffith should get 2 weeks for impersonating a ruck man.
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That is the problem with the third ruck and lack of rules for it. Maric got suspended for 3 weeks trying to block a third man. I do not like it but lining a bloke up to hit him in the head, well thats just not cricket.
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While I feel for Freo having this happen from a pre-season game I laugh at the attempts to justify it by suggesting it's not his fault because he's taller than the other player or someone 30kg lighter "pushed him".
It's not like this is the first time Sandi has stepped out in a body of his size. He's 33 years old, he knows how big he is and he knows what his body can do. He clearly lined up Griffiths and Griffiths had no further part in the game due to concussion. When that happens there's no way it's accidental or insufficient force.
If you don't think there's anything in it you could always go get shouldered in the face by someone that's 130kg of muscle to see what it feels like. Let me know if you still think the same afterwards, video would help too.
It's not like this is the first time Sandi has stepped out in a body of his size. He's 33 years old, he knows how big he is and he knows what his body can do. He clearly lined up Griffiths and Griffiths had no further part in the game due to concussion. When that happens there's no way it's accidental or insufficient force.
If you don't think there's anything in it you could always go get shouldered in the face by someone that's 130kg of muscle to see what it feels like. Let me know if you still think the same afterwards, video would help too.
the game is honestly a joke these days.
the head high drama is so ridiculously overblown it's laughable. If the richmond player isn't missing next week neither should sandi.
the head high drama is so ridiculously overblown it's laughable. If the richmond player isn't missing next week neither should sandi.
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Call me crazy but he could have tried going for the ball and not shouldering the other player in the head.
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If you think Sandilands lined up Griffith with the intention to hurt him you are very short on football knowledge . Sandi has not been reported before this episode in his long career. If there is a fairer player going around I would like to know who it is.
Next you will be trying the blame game re Vickery fainting from exhaustion 10 minutes into the game.
Bard
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The real joke is that the 3rd man up is still allowed. Only a matter of time until crazy ruckmen start getting angry and taking the matter into their own hands.
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I think Sandi got the tap so that probably amounts to going for the ball. Griffith ran into a nearly stationary Sandi . If you go third man up suffer the consequence. Being a wimp and going third man up also doesn't help.
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Stationary? Sandilands took a couple of steps into him?
It was unfortunate he got him high, but his intention was always to bump there. If you choose to bump you roll the dice and Sandilands got snake eyes on this one.
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Come on mate, reading isn't that hard.
"Based on the available video evidence and a medical report from the Richmond Football Club, the incident was assessed as careless conduct with medium impact to the head. The incident was classified as a two-game sanction. The player has no applicable record which impacts the penalty. An early plea enables the player to accept a one-game sanction."
http://www.afl.com.au/news/2016-02-22/mrp-full-statement-nab-challenge-week-one
You'd think wrong then, there's even a video you can watch to educate yourself. Sandi didn't contest.
http://www.afl.com.au/news/2016-02-...to-miss-one-match-after-bump-on-ben-griffiths
I count 8 out of 10 players here looking at the ball, the 2 that aren't are Freo players.
A player going for the ball should not expect to be shouldered in the head by a player not going for the ball, end of story.
HowieD
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If they cared about contact to the head they would ban the third man up. They won't. The match review panel are a bunch of spuds.
Anyway, the MRP have set a benchmark in relation to ruck contests for 2016.
Will they stick with this standard of ruling through 2016, .................. that is the litmus test.
Will they stick with this standard of ruling through 2016, .................. that is the litmus test.
That doesnt make any sense. 99.9% of third man up situations dont have any head contact...
High marking to be banned due to heads being kneed in the contest ?.
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Also shouldn't have two hanging of him in the contest. Careless is a long way from lining him up to hurt him.
They may as well make the players wear netball bibs at this rate.
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Surprised it took this long to roll out the old "netball" line.
telsor
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They're pre season games...There is a fair chance he'll be missing next week regardless purely due to wanting to play other guys, and even if he did miss because of this, that doesn't mean he would of missed if it was a serious game.
That said, he DID miss the rest of that game (and would have regardless of the seriousness of the game due to having concussion), which has to count for something.
