Worst tribunal injustices

[rick James]

I can't believe no one mentioned Brent Moloney's 2 week suspension for "whilst not making contact, still caused James Bartel to fall over and injure himself"

Absolute farce.

 

[scottywiper]

Headland getting off for an attempted king-hit.
Kerr's low act.
Farmer elbow/Farmer knee last season.
Gehrig attempting to whack an opponent at the WACA during his Eagles days, missing and hitting an umpire, and walking away without any punishment.

 

[Greatness23]

McLeod suspended in 2002 for charging Matthew Lloyd when contact was made like half a second after the mark and McLeod was already in the air. Then after the game Lloyd was interviewed and he even said there was nothing in the incident.

 

[Chewy]

Any player done for "attempting to strike" has been unlucky (Archer was one) and also the Doggies players rubbed out for wrestling on the eve of the 1997 finals. How the AFL plucked these decisions from out of the mass of similar incidents makes me think the system is corrupt.

Peter Matera cleaned up an umpire with a massive blindside bump years ago and earlier this year another player (can't think who) did almost the the same thing in another Subiaco game. In between these 2 incidents there have been many players rubbed out for minor contact with umpires, often when the umpire was at fault and stepped in the player's path.

Diesel Williams' 9 weeks for an innocous push on an umpire was a joke.

Tiger ruck and former president, Nevill Crowe missed the 1967 premiership when he attempted to slap Carlton tough guy John Nicholls in the Preliminary Final. He missed completely, but Big Nick did a brilliant impersonation of an Italian soccer player, threw back his head and hit the deck. This was before the days of video evidence, so the umpy's mistaken view was enough to deny Crowe a place in a premiership team.

In the 1999 Prelimary Finals, both Aaron Hamill and Mick Martyn committed dirty acts that should've seen them rubbed out from that year's Grand Final. Hamill blatantly dropped his knee into an Essendon players head. He was initially suspended but threatened court action and escaped on some very dubious technicality. Mick Martyn clobbered young Simon Black in a pack, smashing the young star's eye socket, but amazingly escaped investigation... Possibly a square up for Hamill ???

Dunkley taking out a supreme court injunction and playing in the 1996 Grand Final after roughing up James Hird in the PF and quite rightly receiving a suspension.

Andy Collins giving a Melbourne player a lovetap to the stomach while being slung over the boundary line and into the fence in the the round 22 1996 'merger match'. It was his final season. Our little 200 game tough as nails champion was denied the chance to play his last game in the Elimination Final vs Sydeny. His suspension definitely had nothing to do with the AFL trying to fix things for their darling Swans.

Vandenberg's 4 weeks for his (elbow) argy-bargy on Russell Robertson is easily the most unjust decision this year. That was a ridiculous suspension. I've watched players ram their elbows in people's faces in the packs for years and none are ever investigated. 4 weeks is the sort of punishment players get for a strike - he didn't strike Robbo, he just sort of pushed him with the elbow. If Kerr gets 1 week, then Vandenberg should have also.

Anthony Rocca was a bit stiff to miss the 2003 Grand Final for his hit on Brendon Lade(?) There wasn't a whole in it - it looked much worse than it was. He was just puffing his chest, he was bit late, no one was hurt. The harsh climate of the times meant he had to go.

 

[scooter600x]

How about Danny Southern strangling Peter Sumich unconcious and being let off with a fine?

Who gets suspended for a headlock?

Southern did get 2 weeks for wrestling v Hawthorn.

 

[Count Zero]

Byron getting 6 weeks for something that others have gotten away with since.

 

[3rd Grade Maggy]

Put down a vote for Todd Curley for mine. He was a victim of that ******ed "the umpire is sacrosanct" bull**** the league was peddling at the time and copped 4 weeks when an umpire basically backed into him. It ruined him as a player and I reckon he only played a handful more games.

Diesel was pretty stiff on that front as well. 9 weeks for that in today's climate is an absolute joke.

Grant sneaks in with a vote as well - only because of the circumstances of him getting cited well after the facts.

 

[8 ball]

Who gets suspended for a headlock?

Southern did get 2 weeks for wrestling v Hawthorn.

There's a difference between strangling a bloke until he passes out and a headlock.

Easily the worst incident listed here - could have been lethal.

 

[Quinz]

Chewy, I think it was Medhurst who ran into the umpire?

 

[Grimfang]

Turn it up. That was ****weak.

Who did Gary Hocking iron out a few years ago? and then get off with nothing.

That was pretty crap...

Robert Harvey was on the receiving end of that.

 

[dumesny1]

That was one I was thinking of.

Worst for mine was Grant's "suspension" in 97. No umpire reported him, video umpire let it go, yet Ian Collins made an issue of it and ultimately cost Grant a brownlow. Few (if any) other of the bad decisions listed above had the same ramifications.

This is the one. Worst decision in AFL history.

 

[spell_check]

Week by week this can be updated. The tribunal is a farce.

 

[eddiesmith]

Week by week this can be updated. The tribunal is a farce.

What now? McPhees is no where near as bad as the Farmer incident which funnily enough cost Collingwood the game yesterday

 

[spell_check]

What now? McPhees is no where near as bad as the Farmer incident which funnily enough cost Collingwood the game yesterday

I just want to kick the homosexual thread off the main page.

 

[relapse]

Williams record was so bad these days hed have 10 weeks before he went in.

hahaha thats the funniest thing I have read all night