So tell me....

[Strapping Young Lad]

How many weeks did Goddard get offered by the MRP?


Edit:
p.s. Sorry if people can't read, but if you do in fact require posting in this thread, can you please endeavour to read it first.
This thread is not about Buddy's bump or Lloyd, or Essendon, it's not a whinge session (unless you are form aforementioned club, who seems to have one poster with the brain the size of a nat) .....this is about the rules. And the interpretation of them, in this case, during the finals.

 

[Saintspower]

None! and so he shouldn't !

What a fantastic hit that picked up the tempo of the game.

Good on ya BJ!

 

[Bell Ringer]

Chip on shoulder much????

 

[Salamander Man]

Buddy Franklin.

 

[longsuffreosupp]

Hmmm, shoulder in face

It is Thomas though. -2 weeks?

 

[Shane Hird]

It was a perfect hip and shoulder galon. Should be shown to every junior player as a perfect example of how to take out an opposition forward without head high contact. A gem of a bump.


Stop crying and get over it.


Get youself a nice big bowl of coca-pops and slot your 2008 GF DVD in and just forget about football for a few months.


It really is pathetic you put such a thread up...ur smarter than that.

 

[TorresIsGod]

Hmmm, shoulder in face

It is Thomas though. -2 weeks?

2+ weeks for Thomas.

 

[Virgil]

Clearly ducked into it.

 

[OzBomber]

As soon as I saw the image I thought it must've been a Hawks fan that started the thread.

 

[Saintspower]

Contact between St Kilda’s Brendon Goddard and Collingwood’s Dale Thomas from the second quarter of Sunday’s game was assessed. There was no high contact made by the St Kilda player and the action was not deemed to be unreasonable in the circumstances. No further action was taken.

Thread should be closed now

 

[SirJimi05]

Hawks supporters don't know when to give up. One of their mods needs to put a sticky on their board telling them to stop embarrassing the suppoorter base with this constant crying and sour grapes that is going on. When will it ever end?

 

[Heater39]

Fair hit, Thomas recovered, lets move on, nothing to see here.

 

[Makka]

There was some great bumps in the Saints/Pies game. It was good to see that they all came out clear from the villains at the MRP!!

 

[The Dukes Brian]

Luke Darcy was just speaking about this exact thing on 'One Week at a Time' and he pointed out how this game and what players can and cant do is defined by mear millimetres. If Goddard hit him just the little pit higher or Daisy stayed down, he would right now, according to the past few weeks with the MRP, be missing out on a Grand Final.

This is what it has come to. Coaches must now determine if they want to tell their players to keep the bump, or just leave it be when it is just a matter of millimetres and a huge opportunity could be thrown right out the window. The only time you'll see players not really give a hoot about the bump and where it lands will be in the Grand Final as there, you have nothing to lose.

 

[Leather Poisoning]

Saw the hit - was a ripper and got exactly what it deserved:

PLAY ON!

OP makes a very good point.

 

[Strapping Young Lad]

Hawks supporters don't know when to give up. One of their mods needs to put a sticky on their board telling them to stop embarrassing the suppoorter base with this constant crying and sour grapes that is going on. When will it ever end?

As soon as I saw the image I thought it must've been a Hawks fan that started the thread.

It was a perfect hip and shoulder galon. Should be shown to every junior player as a perfect example of how to take out an opposition forward without head high contact. A gem of a bump.


Stop crying and get over it.


Get youself a nice big bowl of coca-pops and slot your 2008 GF DVD in and just forget about football for a few months.


It really is pathetic you put such a thread up...ur smarter than that.

Guys, don't make this about Hawthorn. I'm not the one crying. I'm making a point.

It's about the state of play in the AFL. How can one set of rules be enforced one week, and not the next??

 

[dan warna]

thomas made the mistake of trying to go for the football, clearly not one he made for the rest of the game

 

[Spluff]

Didn't hit his head.

 

[Strapping Young Lad]

Contact between St Kilda’s Brendon Goddard and Collingwood’s Dale Thomas from the second quarter of Sunday’s game was assessed. There was no high contact made by the St Kilda player and the action was not deemed to be unreasonable in the circumstances. No further action was taken.

Thread should be closed now

Interesting assessment from the MRP though,....oh, it's finals is it?

I'm not on a witch hunt here, but it would be good if this sort of thing could continue in the game without the MRP offering weeks to our players.

FWIW, I can understand if the MRP turn a blind eye to it in the finals, but one rule should govern all games of AFL during the year, not become more lenient as the games become more important.

 

[Leather Poisoning]

Interesting assessment from the MRP though,....oh, it's finals is it?

I'm not on a witch hunt here, but it would be good if this sort of thing could continue in the game without the MRP offering weeks to our players.

FWIW, I can understand if the MRP turn a blind eye to it in the finals, but one rule should govern all games of AFL during the year, not become more lenient as the games become more important.

You mean, like the blocking a player from joining the next contest rule?

Is that still a rule btw?

 

[SirJimi05]

Guys, don't make this about Hawthorn. I'm not the one crying. I'm making a point.

It's about the state of play in the AFL. How can one set of rules be enforced one week, and not the next??

Don't treat people like idiots.

Lloyd and Buddy both made contact to the head. A few years ago they both would have got off but the rule now clearly states you cannot make contact to the head.

Goddard did not make contact to the head.

Have you seen the actual footage?

I can recall you telling me that a photo proves nothing after i posted a photo of Cambell Brown sticking his fingers into an Essendon players eyes.

Why do the rules change when it suits you.

Terrbible thread.

 

[Strapping Young Lad]

Luke Darcy was just speaking about this exact thing on 'One Week at a Time' and he pointed out how this game and what players can and cant do is defined by mear millimetres. If Goddard hit him just the little pit higher or Daisy stayed down, he would right now, according to the past few weeks with the MRP, be missing out on a Grand Final.

This is what it has come to. Coaches must now determine if they want to tell their players to keep the bump, or just leave it be when it is just a matter of millimetres and a huge opportunity could be thrown right out the window. The only time you'll see players not really give a hoot about the bump and where it lands will be in the Grand Final as there, you have nothing to lose.

Yep, fair point.

I love the bump. I've dished out quite a few in my days, and I still can in any other comp in the country. But our Elite players cannot.

Unless it seems, the bump is made in a final, and then the AFL and MRP acknowledge that contact will be made between opponents.

The thing is, the same thoughts should be applied all year round.

 

[Harvey to Hayes]

Guys, don't make this about Hawthorn. I'm not the one crying. I'm making a point.

It's about the state of play in the AFL. How can one set of rules be enforced one week, and not the next??

So let me get this straight - you think that the original Buddy verdict was a travesty, but believe that because the decision was made once it should now be a precedent and a similar decision be made every time from now on? Strange... Shouldn't you be congratulating the MRP for getting it right now if you think the Buddy decision was so bad?

 

[Shane Hird]

Luke Darcy was just speaking about this exact thing on 'One Week at a Time' and he pointed out how this game and what players can and cant do is defined by mear millimetres. If Goddard hit him just the little pit higher or Daisy stayed down, he would right now, according to the past few weeks with the MRP, be missing out on a Grand Final.

This is what it has come to.
Coaches must now determine if they want to tell their players to keep the bump, or just leave it be when it is just a matter of millimetres and a huge opportunity could be thrown right out the window. The only time you'll see players not really give a hoot about the bump and where it lands will be in the Grand Final as there, you have nothing to lose.

And it's not just coaches of AFL sides that have this issue on their minds.

Next year I'll be coaching my son's U11s team after five seasons of modified rules which included no intensional bumping an opponent.

I will have to choose my words very carefully when I explain how its done.

 

[Strapping Young Lad]

Don't treat people like idiots.

Lloyd and Buddy both made contact to the head. A few years ago they both would have got off but the rule now clearly states you cannot make contact to the head.

Goddard did not make contact to the head.

Have you seen the actual footage?

I can recall you telling me that a photo proves nothing after i posted a photo of Cambell Brown sticking his fingers into an Essendon players eyes.

Why do the rules change when it suits you.

Terrbible thread.

FFS.

The photo was of two players wrestling on the ground taken from about 100metres away, and you chose to sprout off about how you were mates with someones cousins sister, who said that Brown definitely eye-gouged NLM and that all of Essendon knew it.

The above photo is of the incident. It's plain to see the line of the shoulder is running directly towards Thomas's head. The contact may not have been enough to split him open but contact was made, regardless. And this is supposedly what the AFL want to stop.

Now, stop making this thread about Essendon and Hawthorn and neck up.