Yeah, surprised there are so many up in arms about the 2 weeks handed down. Way off the ball, blinside hit, concussion.
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Well AFL propping up Swans again.
The whole system is a joke - it really puts you off following the game.Quote:
SYDNEY co-captain Dane Rampe is free to face Fremantle on Saturday night after the Tribunal threw out his two-match ban for a collision that left Western Bulldog Lachie McNeil concussed.
Rampe argued the contact was nothing more than a "football incident", declaring he hadn't deviated from his running line and that McNeil had initiated the contact.
That is unbelievable. Rampe clearly accelerates into a vulnerable player.
https://www.afl.com.au/news/982264/t...on-boyd-tackle
Haha, this is comical. New vision comes out which proves Rampe was just defending and it was McNeil's fault. It's the same vision, he b-lines straight for McNeil, takes him out of play and continues. He didn't mean to inflict the damage, sure, but he chose to put a hard block and one of our players is now suffering from concussion. It's laughable. Hopefully McNeil apologises to Rampe.
The Dogs should be able to appeal.
So comical.
You can run into a player off the ball, concuss them and no penalty, yet if you tackle a player with the ball who won't let the ball go and free there arm to brace a fall, but instead prefer to be taken down and get concussed and you cop a 1 or 2 week penalty.
So as I understand it, the AFL's tribunal has ruled that picking off a player behind play is now perfectly legal as long as the player being hit slightly deviates off a straight line.
Barry Hall, Dermot Brereton, David Rhys Jones and other thugs and snipers would have loved this.
This is pretty niche content but apropos of the league okaying blokes nowhere near the contest being concussed the coronial inquest into the death of Shane Tuck starts today and anyone interested can view proceedings via this link which'll first ask you to download an app called Webex to tune in.
Am told counsel assisting will give the opening address from 3:00 - 5 PM then the broadcast will resume at 8:00 PM to hear an American expert give evidence on CTE management.
Imagine the AFEL will be particularly keen observers here ...
We get absolutely shafted in the current system.
Luke Beveridge said a lot by saying nothing in todays press conference; other than I will refain as I will get into a lot of trouble otherwise!
I see Touk Miller has been cleared from the complaint of attacking Dayne Zorko's groin area.
At least the NRL suspended John 'Stink Fist' Hopoate for his repeated efforts.
Apparently interim Suns coach Stephen King nominated Zorko as a dangerous Brisbane Lions player before the game and as a leader Touk Miller decided to take matters into his own hands.
Disgraceful from Port
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Both Aliir Aliir and Lachie Jones have now been put in the concussion protocol and will miss this week v Geelong. Port Adelaide have been issued with a please explain by the AFL after Aliir was not given a SCAT5 test after his head knock
They'll be held into account for sure. You read our report on Keath and they just used footage to determine not to bring him back on. The vision of Alir is brutal and that alone should have been enough to take him out of the game. It's extremely negligent in this current environment.
With a billion dollar brain injury law suit sitting there, if the AFEL don’t send a brutal message to everyone then they are truly dumb. This will be used as evidence as it is in the case, but the AFEL need to show they are not complicit in it. I’m thinking deregistering the doctor’s AFEL accreditation and a $500,000 fine (50% suspended) in bringing the game into disrepute. I’d also hit Hinkley with some sort of a sanction too to send a message to coaches that they need to be even more forceful in similar circumstances, not just take the initial word of the doctor.
I can’t believe Port would expose themselves legally and the AFEL with such absolute recklessness. They’re literally under the microscope if an army of lawyers and then they, on national tv, demonstrate the exact sports medical malpractice being claimed/alleged they’ve been guilty of. The lawyers on the players side couldn’t have wished for a such a smoking gun being served on a platter.
Plus WorkSafe SA should have a look at it too. What’s the point of specific industry OH&S safety protections if Port decide they don’t want to adhere to them?
They have form as well. Last season Jonas and Butters had a head clash that was definitely assess worthy late in a close game and they put them both straight back out there.
Zorko has broken the players code to attack Miller.
I find it very rich from one of the dirtiest players of the past decade. Zorko has seven penalties for striking, eye gouging, four misconduct charges and a fine for staging.
And all this given the league is unbelievably soft on suspending players, and Zorko has had loads of elbows, jumper punches, dropping of knees where the league has been lenient with him and ignored it.
I'm no Zorko fan and he has previous form with unsavoury acts as you've rightly pointed out, but he has every right to be dirty about the treatment he copped on the weekend from Miller. That shit is on the extreme end of unsavoury - it is totally not on and potentially very dangerous.
Whilst agree something like that is a dirty act, not sure if clear cut from vision.
See here
The reason I have doubts is if someone grabbed you by the nuts the way it is described, the pain would be pretty bad, but Zorko seems to be ok when he springs up off the ground.
Miller out for one match
First the bump. Now the squirrel grip.
Nothing's sacred.
Very, very strange process - that the match review panel can find nothing and then an opposition player can war a trial by media against an opponent. Clearly there is bad blood between the two of them
I don't condone the act of squirrel gripping but I have some major concerns about the way this case has been handled and it doesn't seem that Touk Miller has had a fair go at defending himself here