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Can we trade onegreatclub who spends more time on our board that their own for you..you are a much more amenable poster from down that way it seems.
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I've never bought into the whole 'afl against the crows' thing but I think this has finally tipped me over the edge. What a bizarre series of calls in the SAME ROUND.
I am OK with the 3 week ban in isolation, I think we need to remove these sort of bumps from the game, especially in light of the recent findings on the concussions on past players. He didn't need to bump and could have tackled
I am not OK with the ban when you compare it to the Pickett bump and subsequent 2 week ban he receive. IMO the Pickett bump was as bad if not worse and should have been 3-4 weeks if Shane got 3 weeks.
The AFL have caused this mess with their inconsistency and now have no idea how to explain it. The tribunal system is currently a joke. I am glad we are going to fight it out of principle.
I am not OK with the ban when you compare it to the Pickett bump and subsequent 2 week ban he receive. IMO the Pickett bump was as bad if not worse and should have been 3-4 weeks if Shane got 3 weeks.
The AFL have caused this mess with their inconsistency and now have no idea how to explain it. The tribunal system is currently a joke. I am glad we are going to fight it out of principle.
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Well Mackay won ...
I equally have no real issue with 3 weeks but I have enormous issues with the inconsistencies in the same ****en round.
The afl is dumb as hell
The afl is dumb as hell
Right.... there's obviously no bias in the mrp...
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Can the AFL give him more weeks to punish us further?
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What is the appeal based on? The vibe of the thing? There needs to be a specific error to appeal on now.
Even Toby Green is shocked and said that Pickets was worse.
Not often I'm here agreeing with you guys but so you should.
Ridiculous inconsistency.
If the AFL had appealed the Pickett decision maybe. But even so 3 weeks seems excessive.
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In isolation you could understand it in the current climate, even if the rating below severe resulted in 3 matches. And severe resulted in 4 or 5 matches.
But to have in the exact same round two incidents that were worse and made more impact with the head, it just makes the bias blatantly obvious.
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Kozzy Pickett's was a glancing blow?
A satellite guided Missile couldn't hit a target that squarely on a hundred tries.
Why dont you stand in front of Kozzy this week and see just how "glancing" it is Michael.
A satellite guided Missile couldn't hit a target that squarely on a hundred tries.
Why dont you stand in front of Kozzy this week and see just how "glancing" it is Michael.
I'm not sure if it makes a difference under the rules in question (which appear to be pretty damn vague anyway), but it seems to me that there's also an issue that Wehr actually had the ball at the time when McAdam hit him, while Smith didn't when Pickett got him. Surely that's got to be a mitigating factor for McAdam compared to the Pickett incident?
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Bicks is spot on here when he says the AFL is in danger of disappearing up it'own backside ..
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You'd think so but AFL mouth pieces (Whateley) have said one action was a football action and the other was not.
I'll leave it up to you to "guess" which one is which.
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Not taking a shot at you, but that makes absolutely no sense to me.
Wouldn't the player hitting a defenseless player without the ball (not to mention while leaving the air), but deemed worse, then a player bumping a player with the ball and actually affecting and live contest?
If anything that should be a defense to McAdam shouldn't it?
Which is exactly what I said....
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Sorry, I read it the other way around. That makes sense then.
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Well done. You know this this sort of thing happens to your club as well. WE'RE NOT VICTORIAN BASED CLUBS.
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Excellent discussion on the Back page...Fitzy not happy...Even the NRL, Soccer guys agree Pickett's was the worse one of all.
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MRO calls ‘vindicated’ or ‘confusion reigns’? Ban lengths polarise hosts after ‘watershed’ moment
‘Got to stop this’: Fitzy fumes over bump bans, AFL’s missed chance to ‘send message’
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I think it’s well past the danger phase. It’s disappeared and emerged out the other end
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Gee, it's pretty damning when you lay it all out like that. Need as many people as possible to see this graphic.
Maybe we need to look at the past. Remember Diesel Williams going to court and getting an injunction? Then fight like hell that the VFL are making sure that it will never be a true AFL!!!
