Gerard Healy and Dwayne Russell both agree that it was the right decision made. They read out a bunch of messages from journos i.e gerard wheatley, mark robinson etc. who were infuriated by the decision and Wheatley and Russel followed by saying "how much AFL footy have they played" etc.

Absolute wankers.

to be fair they also prevaricated a bit

and both said that they could easily accept either decision (guilty/not guilty)

healy thought he would get off

Brad green tweeted

" step aside and avoid contact... PLEASE"

Onya Brad.

• #freeviney is now trending on twitter and its great so many people are outraged.

How does the appeal process work?

I'm confused - I had thought the AFL fined us previously for playing 'bruise free' footy - they called it tanking.

Now this.

Did these tribunal members receive their training in Syria?

Incompetent, malevolent fools.

looks like bruise-free-footy is back but not just for us now the tribunal has ruled

What amazingly stupid comments. It was less than 1 second between the ball being 5 meters away from each player (and still bouncing meaning to could go any direction and at any pace) to the collision. He did not ELECT to bump. He didn't even bump. He collided with another player while chasing a bouncing oval shaped ball.

Crawl back into a very, very deep hole FFA.

It's okay, I'm listening.

Jack will always be hard, but now he'll be more discriminate.

Have it on good authority the media will be savaging the AFL for this decision and the farcical implications they're making for the game. Predicting a huge fallout.

I have it on good authority that the AFL is a basket case.

Bunch of vankers

A contest like that used to be considered a virtue of our game. It would have been used in advertisements for the next season. Two blokes with eyes for the ball go at it. It was tough and had no malice in it. Good luck advertising a game based on defensive zones and low scoring Gillon.

Damian Barrett tweet: "Everybody calm down. Please.. The tribunal have got this right 100% on Viney..

Id love to see this bloke out in the public.. an absolute Fwit of the highest order!

D'Land is in meltdown.

The boy is still with us. It's two weeks....not a lifetime.

There's a player with a wired up jaw tonight.

The head is sacrosanct.

It is sacrosanct, and seeing as you acknowledge that, you must value the head's capacity to make a decision and thinking freely. The decision to play the match in the first place.

Had a sickening feeling about this....

Jack will learn.

Fool

so jack was supposed to pirouette out of that, and if he did not move quick enough the much heavier lynch with Georgio on his back would have cannonballed into Jack and could possibly have broken his back. So from now on ANY collision between two or more players must be avoided under the threat of suspension. Something must be done about this tribunal these guys are an absolute joke and blight on the game.

Way ahead of you there. I didn't even know they had a show.

Dwayne Russell - wankerosis maximosis

It is sacrosanct, and seeing as you acknowledge that, you must value the head's capacity to make a decision and thinking freely. The decision to play the match in the first place.

Tell that to Sylvia who had his jaw broken - WEst coast player not even cited.

Not surprised but bitterly disappointed. And how insulting to a player suggesting he could spin out of the way in a split second decision. No player in the history has ever pirouetted to avoid contact, every player is in fact taught to ride the bumps.

You look at it in slow motion and the reaction is quick. He slows and braces, he does not move towards the player to bump.

Gerard Whately made a great point, how can the tribunal rule in such a way that is contradictory to the rest of the competitions opinions?

Is there any risk with appealing the decision? If not I would really like us to appeal and defend our player to the hilt.

This is such a BS decision.

He's a brilliant player who will learn to be harder at the ball and avoid collisions.

It's okay, I'm listening.

Jack will always be hard, but now he'll be more discriminate.

That's what you are not getting. Now to be discriminate means pulling out of contests for the fear of causing injury.

D'Land is in meltdown.

The boy is still with us. It's two weeks....not a lifetime.

There's a player with a wired up jaw tonight.

The head is sacrosanct.

It's not the weeks mate. I'd be dirty if he only got carryover points

Cannot be found guilty for that. This opens pandoras box. The impact isn't as big on team performance or outcomes because we're no good and its round 7.... but what happens if Ablett misses a GF because of something like that? Love/hate for certain players and teams aside, the game is worse off if we go down this path.

Damian Barrett tweet: "Everybody calm down. Please.. The tribunal have got this right 100% on Viney..

Id love to see this bloke out in the public.. an absolute Fwit of the highest order!

Im starting to think that Damian Barrett is Jumbo Returns, have the same grasp on the game!

Have watched this another 2 doz times. A genuine contest for the ball! RIP AFL!

BT just standing up for us on 3AW, says it is an absolute joke. Healy disagreeing with him.

Dwayne Russel saying we are "sooking it up" as Roosy has canceled his interview with them. Healy (surprisingly) saying it is most likely because he is going straight to appeal, Russel is calling the MFC "sooks" as a reply to Healy.

Dwayne Russell is an absolute [censored] of the highest order. Stopped listening to 3AW nightly sports show when Hooksey passed on and that cretin Russell partnered Healy. He is full of crap and is an absolute ****head.

The urgency now is to come up with more grounds for an appeal. I didn't watch the hearing so I am not sure what we brought up, other than common-sense.

We need legal people and biomechanists on steroids to come up with something. The AFL want this to go away; they don't want an appeal…which will keep it in the media.

In terms of new grounds, the club only has 2 possible avenues.

1. The puffer-fish exhale.

Clearly, the footage shows Viney blowing out his cheeks ala Louis Armstrong as he "braces" for impact. If we can find footage of Viney executing bumps without this "bracing mechanism", this can be clearly used as new evidence IMO

2. The sudden drop in Lynch's head height evidenced by a few observations (eg. pelvic drop). Club could time it to nanoseconds.

Brad green tweeted

" step aside and avoid contact... PLEASE"

Onya Brad.

You sure it wasn't Cameron Bruce?

Sorry, couldn't help myself.

Decisions like this will do nothing for a return to one on one contests and will merely perpetuate the ultra defensive scrum we witness now.

Absolutely criminal decision.