The Franklin joke.

[SupermanCapes]

This is complete ineptitude but not because of Buddy, this is due to the ridiculous precedents made earlier in the year. I’m pretty sure this was deliberately set up with the ‘careless’ grading which is completely idiotic.

It’s not a Buddy problem, it’s an AFL problem. If you swing an elbow and hit the head, that is intentional and high, regardless of where you were aiming or how hard you hit and should be 2 weeks immediately

This is 100% it - the AFL are too cowardly to admit they erred when they failed to suspend Daniher and Shuey so they found a way to keep this one consistent with those findings - it was never going any other way. Buddy plays on the edge for sure but he's far from the worst in the league for that sort of thing. Absolutely no doubt that it was worthy of 2-3 weeks but if the AFL had decided that it's 2-3 weeks for Bud but just a fine for Daniher and Shuey I would have found that more concerning.

At least Buddy helped Sydney drop Essendon - some mild karma for our boys.

 

[One_Wing]

In the end Franklin getting off did work in our favor...needed Sydney to beat essendon.