Roast The AFL aren't taking concussion and head trauma seriously enough. Lalor/Ginbey incident.

How many weeks should Ginbey get?

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Yes, it was ugly.

Yet I fully expect the AFL to find Mansell has no case to answer given the precedence they set in the pre-season.

I also note the commentators being quite vocal - "that is dangerous" and "we need to stop that". It's a pity that the AFL have greenlighted this action for this season.
 
Needs to be stamped out of the game.
Unfortunately Kane decided it was ok in the pre season when she let the Ginbey action go.

Punishing it now would be just but inconsistent. Which is what I’d expect from an incompetent administration.
 

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ReturningHawk said:
Two weeks?

I don't want you to open yourself up to accusations here. It seems like your heart's just not in it when one of your team's players is on the hook. This incident needs its own main board thread, and I think you're the right person for the job. Anything less is just not serious enough.
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This is bad but no broken jaw. I said 2 to 3 weeks for Mansell and 3 weeks for Ginbey. So what are you complaining about.
 

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ReturningHawk said:
Your unacknowledged bias?
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I don't get what your point is. Apart from an obvious injury trolling. Which is pea hearted and pathetic on your behalf. You're the one being biased.

The AFL should have come down on this in the preseason when it was the Richmond player getting concussed and having his jaw broken. Why was that absolutely fine and a bit of a giggle then, but now, when it's a Richmond player doing the pushing, it's a hanging offence?
 
Grin said:
I don't get what your point is. Apart from an obvious injury trolling.
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Where did I make light of an injury?
Grin said:
Which is pea hearted and pathetic on your behalf. You're the one being biased.
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Prove it
Grin said:
Why was that absolutely fine and a bit of a giggle then, but now, when it's a Richmond player doing the pushing, it's a hanging offence?
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Did you reply to the right person? When did I I express any views on any of these incidents?
 
Aristotle Pickett said:
The AFL should have stamped it out with Ginbey but they let him off.
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Are they the same actions and circumstances?

Were the two players contesting a mark on the lead?

The answer is no. And why this action will get weeks. It wasnt a football act and it was unreasonable pushing a player into the path of two players leading for the ball.

Very different set of circumstances.

Just like your interest.
 
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Obeanie1 said:
Are they the same actions and circumstances?

Were the two players contesting a mark on the lead?

The answer is no. And why this action will get weeks. It wasnt a football act and it was unreasonable pushing a player into the path of two players leading for the ball.

Very different set of circumstances.

Just like your interest.
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Troll, hypocrite or both?
 
This exact incident is the one that the AFL (depending on their motives) have either been dreading, or waiting for.

Either way, Mansell is gone, and rightly so.

Christian made it explicitly clear that they were going to judge these incidents on whether the player could have knowingly anticipated that the push could cause a concussion.

Mansell had all relevant information right in his sightline and still did it. Gone baby gone.
 
This was always going to happen.

It just adds to the ironic and preposterous nature of the AFL and their "ability to pivot" on their perception of incidents, and clutch their pearls when it suits them, that it will be a Richmond player that suffers their wrath, after their own No 1 draft pick has his jaw broken in a similar incident to the sound of crickets hardly a month earlier.

Rub Mansell out by all means, he probably deserves it. It's irrelevant to where Richmond's season is headed, and a handy little advantage to the Lions next weekend which they most likely don't even need tbh.

But don't then dilute it when their favourites do it too, or when finals time rolls around.
 
GhostofJimJess said:
This was always going to happen.

It just adds to the ironic and preposterous nature of the AFL and their "ability to pivot" on their perception of incidents, and clutch their pearls when it suits them, that it will be a Richmond player that suffers their wrath, after their own No 1 draft pick has his jaw broken in a similar incident to the sound of crickets hardly a month earlier.

Rub Mansell out by all means, he probably deserves it. It's irrelevant to where Richmond's season is headed, and a handy little advantage to the Lions next weekend which they most likely don't even need tbh.

But don't then dilute it when their favourites do it too, or when finals time rolls around.
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Almost a certainty that a high-profile Brownlow favourite or finals-bound player will have a near identical incident explained away come round 22/23, probably with compliant media saying he can't miss a final for that.
 

Roast The AFL aren't taking concussion and head trauma seriously enough. Lalor/Ginbey incident.

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