Berry gets 1 week
The Match Review Officer (MRO) charged Berry with making "unreasonable or unnecessary contact to the eye region" of Oliver.
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Berry gets 1 week
The Match Review Officer (MRO) charged Berry with making "unreasonable or unnecessary contact to the eye region" of Oliver.
Only if you are Toby Greene scratching out The Bont's face.
Apparently you can press your forearm into someone's neck with the potential of stopping them from breathing, but running your fingers across the face and not even making a mark, scratch or gouge you get a week. This is really piss poor
Let's see how much mayo the MFC puts into the medical report.
Oliver wasn't impacted by it at all, let's see what they say.
This act was a fine - let that sink in. AFL are a disgrace
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJAk3pSCcZk
Are you saying Greene should have gone, and Berry should have not gone?
From what I saw of the Berry incident it was a no brainer, I can't understand any argument against.
It's a low act and deserves time. For both incidents. Greene I'd give 3, Berry 1.
As for the other incident, I agree with you but hard to compare the two.
I think if Brisbane want to go down that route Berry would get off on appeal.
Honestly what option does he have with a persons forearm on your head and throat? He couldnt even see what he was doing, just flailing about
The one time I'd make an exception of the idea that you don't kick. Would have punted his head for a field goal.
Re: Berry.
I am blind in one eye and very sensitive to this issue. You can't be too lenient on gouging. Its as low as it gets, to try and permanently disable an opponent. Anyone went near my good eye, I'm fighting for my life at that point. You will be bitten, kicked, punched, choked, whatever it takes.
That being said, Clayton is the aggressor there and is placing someone under physical duress. He has an opportunity to de-escalate the situation and remove the risk of being gouged by ending the grappling and removing his forearm from the face/throat of the opponent. Berry may have intentionally gone for a gouge, but there's an argument that he was grabbing for the jumper under duress or unable to know exactly where contact would be made as he looked for leverage to disengage from the situation.
Nah he gouged and should get done for gouging. If there are mitigating circumstances from Clolliver then punish him as well, i don't care if you gouge in self defence you shouldn't be doing it.
Also 1 week is not enough.
https://www.afl.com.au/video/839330/...=1662724033001
I actually recon he's trying to grab the jumper, not the eye. They're appealing and I reckon he should get off. Oliver is the grub here. Arm across the throat.
BT needs to take his opinion out of the commentary. Did the same thing with a non-HTB call in the last couple of minutes when Berry (again I believe) had 0 prior but BT goes "How could that NOT be holding the ball?". He's there to call the play, not call the things that didn't happen.
Berry gets off after character witness from Luke Hodge (lol).
Edit: to clarify, I think he should have gotten off and fully agreed with the Brisbane defence. Except for the bit where they used thug Hodge as a character witness.
Given your reasoning was the same given at the tribunal, does this now mean in the future players can simply 'flail about with clenched fists' if someone is on top of them?
He might not have meant to do it but he DID do it. I am so confused by the tribunal these days...if there is ever late contact/high contact, it is all about the 'outcome' (was he injured/concussed etc) rather than the intent. Apparently this one is all about the intent?
I simply don't understand.
Yeah this isn't like Selwood scraping his fingers across Duryea's face or Greene jumping in on top of an indisposed Bontempelli to scratch around his eyes. Berry's hand was out of there even quicker than it went it and he wasn't even looking at Oliver's face.
so 100% agree that the tribunal is confusing as all hell. I thought he would get done on appeal due to impact over intent so was surprised he got off this early in the week. Maybe they are being cautious after the Cripps debacle.
With Berry I thought he was trying to grab at Olivers jumper but couldnt see as he had an arm across his eyes and on his throat.
Picket 2 matches
Buddy 1 match
Should have been straight to the tribunal. Piss weak
Just listening to David King who said Kossie should have got 3 weeks.
The AFL is absolutely asking for trouble with this. The longer this goes the more you see how negligent it really is. Who is advising them?
Incredibly the league took actions like that more seriously back in Byron Pickett's day, when they barely knew what concussion was, than they do know. 2 weeks for that action, regardless of outcome, is not enough.
Fancy that ...
"Leading concussion experts have called for stiffer sanctions to be meted out to AFL players who carry out dangerous hits, arguing Melbourne’s Kysaiah Pickett should have been banned for at least four matches instead of the two he received for his bump on Western Bulldog Bailey Smith" ...
Concussion experts call for tougher AFL penalties after Kysaiah Pickett’s high bump
Worst part is that despite their horsesh1t rhetoric, I picked the sanction so easily.
If they're serious it's straight to the tribunal, give it air in the media, expose the cretins who think it's fine and hopefully end up with a sanction that dissuades recidivism. Maybe even some education for Kysaiah before he does a Brendan Krummel to someone.
Nope it's swept under the rug with a feather.
Pickett launched himself like a torpedo, that has never been a legal action in football. The only reason why he's not looking at a month or more is because he didn't concuss Smith.
Someone is going to be seriously hurt. 2 weeks is like a hit by a wet lettuce leaf. I hate snipers like Pickett and Ziebell. 4 weeks minimum. Intent and foreseeable potential outcome nor just actual outcome should be considered. Will turn parents away from juniors. Weak as water, but what do you expect from HQ.
Confusion is reining supreme.
McAdam straight to the tribunal.