Hawkins Now

[Demon Stalwart 255]

Head high contact and off on a stretcher

Reckless?? or Accident

Obvious accident but what will AFL Do?

[Gorgoroth 12,924]

Life.

[biggestred 5,016]

8 weeks

[Guest Rajon Rondo]

8 weeks

9 on appeal.

[leehow 303]

what about the doctors and trainers? surely they are negligent in their duty of care for not calling for a stretcher earlier. they waited until the play came the full length of the ground even though they knew he needed to be taken off.

[Wadda We Sing 10,685]

He can play, but his knee gets 3 weeks..

[Eth 4]

From a realistic point of view, Hawkins was contesting the mark, Toovey ran against the flight of the ball. [censored] happens in those situations.

From a Melbourne/AFL supporter, the Tomahawk is gonna get his butt kicked at the tribunal.

[biggestred 5,016]

what about the doctors and trainers? surely they are negligent in their duty of care for not calling for a stretcher earlier. they waited until the play came the full length of the ground even though they knew he needed to be taken off.

this is a totally valid point. they should have stopped the cats kicking the ball back in. does this mean the umpires will get 3 weeks for being negligent??

[Supermercado 2,797]

Are we going to get one of these threads for every game this round?

[Gorgoroth 12,924]

Yep

[Supermercado 2,797]

We're developing a bigger siege mentality than North

[dee-luded 2,959]

Head high contact and off on a stretcher

Reckless?? or Accident

Obvious accident but what will AFL Do?

Doesn't matter,Gggoooonnne!

[dee-luded 2,959]

We're developing a bigger siege mentality than North

Existing is not enough.

[Juicebox 628]

What about the tackle on Ling? Had one arm pinned and landed awkwardly. Immediately subbed. Was there a "duty of care" shown?

All we (the fans) ask for is consistency. For the MRP to not penalise such nothing incidents in the first place as well. But consistency please!!

Edited May 13, 2011 by Juicebox

[Whispering_Jack 29,812]

Are we going to get one of these threads for every game this round?

Personally, I'm a big fan of the high mark but after all, a player's head is sacrosanct these days and even if injuries like Toovey's are accidental the player going for the mark owed him a duty of care.

I know this could spell the end of the high mark or any mark for that matter, but for the sake of every player's human rights we have to wipe it out of the game.

[jayceebee31 759]

I hope the players don't start twittering or Mr Anderson will get ya..

[Demon Dynasty 17,109]

I hope the players don't start twittering or Mr Anderson will get ya..

The Footy review show afterwards had a replay of a sling tackle on ablett last year (i think)....came in right at the end so i missed most of it. Was tackled by a Sydney player (i think it was SCG) and hit his head on the ground. Took a while to get up....anyone know about this incident and the outcome re MRP if it was looked at?

Edited May 13, 2011 by Rusty Nails

[Guest oldman emubitter]

Are we going to get one of these threads for every game this round?

it's not a siege mentality, it's being p*ss*d off with something that's wrong and smacks of hypocrisy and inconsistency

[Wadda We Sing 10,685]

it's not a siege mentality, it's being p*ss*d off with something that's wrong and smacks of hypocrisy and inconsistency

well said.

[Supermercado 2,797]

As long as whining endlessly about it on here makes you feel better, because it's not being read by 99.999999999999999999999999999999999% of the community and it won't put JT on the field for the next three weeks.

[Guest Gotzy15]

life.Tooveys head should also get a couple of weeks for the contact as well

[Felix 92]

Head high contact and off on a stretcher

Reckless?? or Accident

Obvious accident but what will AFL Do?

NOTHING, this is accepted as per the AFL rule book.

Jake Spencer knocked out a player going for a mark, and he was not suspended. v Frankston 2 weeks ago.

[Supermercado 2,797]

Does that mean Hawkins is due to blow his knee to shreds next week?

[Felix 92]

Its funny how people only see and hear what they want, and block out the rest

[Dreamin' Demon 10]

What about the tackle on Ling? Had one arm pinned and landed awkwardly. Immediately subbed. Was there a "duty of care" shown?

All we (the fans) ask for is consistency. For the MRP to not penalise such nothing incidents in the first place as well. But consistency please!!

It wasn't Lings head that was injured.