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I watched it. Eddie was using it as an example why crowds are down. Essentially implying we've had a gutful of the dumming down of the games and are hence staying away.
Aaahhh, but they ruled that there was a POTENTIAL to cause injury so the suspension had to stand. FMD there's a potential to cause injury to almost every aspect of a game of footy. Might as well just shut the whole comp down n everyone can go home, lie on their backs in the yard n watch clouds float by. Always remembering of course not to look in the direction of the sun, we don't want to risk a fried eye knacker.
a bloody insult indeed ..
'given permission'? woah .. those words take it somewhere i don't want it to go ..
Marlion will handle it though, he's got class ...
Just watched it now. The last camera shot from the Northern stand view showed Pickett hit him on the shoulder. Not in the head. Bloody hell. All views I saw looked like Pickett got him under the chin. Scapegoat.
Makes you wonder how many camera views do the MRP stooges use to assess.
Just thinking that too. Lloyd wants Parker whipped but supports two idiotic suspensions.
So did we attempt to argue that there was no head high contact at all? Or just try to downgrade the hit to low impact despite it being percevied as a head high hit by the MRP?
Edit - nevermind, just read on another thread we tried to argue the latter, which is bizarre. There must be some logic behind that position though otherwise why would they bother with that defence?
Edit - nevermind, just read on another thread we tried to argue the latter, which is bizarre. There must be some logic behind that position though otherwise why would they bother with that defence?
In the only replay I could find it wasn’t clear to me whether any part of Pickett’s shoulder connected with the Hawthorn player’s head or not, so I assumed that there must have been another angle from a grassy knoll that provided the evidence they needed to rub him out.
So they have suspended him because ‘it looked bad’ in their eyes, and not because of what he actually did.
What’s next? Some kind of minority report ‘pre crime’ tribunal where players will be suspended early after an algorithm determines that the way they play ‘might lead to an offence’.
I like others will be voting with my feet and my money; the AFL can jam it.
Uppity black fella, gotta rub them out according to the powers that be.
Not sure, but, are we allowed to challenge that aspect of the charge? Maybe the rules are such that we can only challenge the level of impact but if the match review monkey says he hit the head that can't be challenged.
DS
Yeah, especially as he went to jail. No good for this league.....smells like Potato head again....
Yup. Bizarre that they didn't argue it was at least debatable that high contact was made at all. Any video I saw was inconclusive at best. How do you rub a bloke out for MAYBE making high contact?
