MRP / Trib. Tribunal Thread - rules and offences discombobulation

[Interstater]

Hold on...

- favourable umpiring decisions
- case dismissed

... its a trap

 

[Boxx]

EAD w***er!

 

[Ateen7tee]

Bad decision, should've got 2 IMO.

Perhaps netball is more your game.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

The Ruling

Tribunal Chairman David Jones:

The jury are not clearly satisfied on the balance of probabilities that the conduct of Powell-Pepper was unreasonable in all the circumstances, therefore the jury finds him not guilty of the charge of rough conduct.

The jury notes McEvoy being a big ruckman, considers that he was leaning in and rotating away. His arms became free and in the jury's view, he was riding the tackle. Looking at all the circumstances the jury is of the view Powell-Pepper executed a good tackle. It all happened in a split second. In the jury's view excessive force was not involved.

 

[backtozero]

 

[Marmozet]

Sensational outcome. There’s a first for everything!

But... I can’t help but think we won’t be so fortunate next time.

 

[JimmyBC]

Sanity, grab it while you can it's not that common.

 

[TeeKray]

Perhaps netball is more your game.

Sarcasm m8

 

[PowerForGood]

Hooray, I can still attend the football.

I was legit canning this sport if he didn't get off.

I am anyway.

Chook lotto is nigh on professional compared to.this.

 

[PA88]

Reading the transcripts of Krupta and Gleeson ... both sound like morons. Krupta got lucky in my opinion. Gleeson sounded corrupt. What a load of bullshit this all was.

 

[VineValerian]

And this took two hours to get to the inevitable conclusion?
FMD
At least justice prevailed, but **** me stupid, had it been a guilty verdict the AFL would have needed to rewrite every rule relating to physical contact.

 

[Ateen7tee]

Sarcasm m8

Same..

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

At the game I jumped out of my seat, stood up and applauded SPP as it was right in front of me I was on level 3, for the tackle and then getting up and going again and helping to get the ball out of bounds. People around me stood up as well.

Just looked at the tackle again on the AFL website and the score was 62 v 58 and there was 3.44 left in the game. It was a match saving type tackle that had to be made and nothing was wrong with it!!!

Thank you Mr Johnson, Mr Loveridge and Mr Loewe. A commonsense decision was made.

 

[PA88]

hes still concussed from that bully Michael Stevens clipping the back of his head one time.

Not that he was too concussed to stitch Stevens up at the hearing

I reckon it was Stewart Loewe that concussed himself from slamming his head onto his own knee??

 

[Shaucob_Burjan]

In the Sam Powell-Pepper Tribunal hearing as he attempts to get off one-match ban for a dangerous tackle on Ben McEvoy. Power representative Ben Krupka just highlighted McEvoy's 'Big Boy' nickname to explain how hard he is to tackle

 

[PowerBaz]

AFL Counsel Trevor Gleeson submitted that the tackle was dangerous because McEvoy was in a vulnerable position because he was being rotated in the tackle and was falling backwards.

He said Powell-Pepper had a duty of care to McEvoy and should have release the tackle sooner, failing to take sufficient regard to his safety.

“I don’t say that Powell-Pepper commenced the tackle improperly or the centre part of the tackle was improper,” Mr Gleeson said.

“He grabbed him around the waist... the problem with the tackle is how it ended up.”

 

[tribey]

Gleeson sounded corrupt

Gleeson always sounds like he’s trying to put away war criminals at The Hague.

 

[MrMeaner]

Trevor Gleeson...LOL

 

[LFC2010]

The sealer for me was being allowed to show the Neil Bullen proper sling tackle looks like compared to SPP's.. Without it I think it would've failed.

 

[tribey]

I reckon it was Stewart Loewe that concussed himself from slamming his head onto his own knee??

He was punched in the head and partially KO’d by a spoiler,

Landed funny as a result with his knee buckling (separate injury),

Head-butted his own kneecap upon landing and put himself deeper into la-la-land.

 

[PowerBaz]

Who is this Gleeson?

 

[Grave Danger]

Common sense prevailed but that should have taken 30 seconds

Blind Freddy wasn't available today.

 

[TeeKray]

I realise the not guilty verdict means we aren't required to pay the $10k appeal fee but is there a mechanism for the AFL to be required to pay Port's legal costs in situations like this? Because if there isn't, there should be.

 

[TheFVK]

Proud that we backed SPP on this.

By asking him to play this way we should also bear the risk of Dan Christian throwing ludicrous, racist charges against our guilty before being proven innocent Sam.

 

[philreich]

I can see it now. Good job getting Powell-Pepper off, Port. However the umpires for your game against Sydney will be Nicholls, Stephens and Chamberlain.