AFL need to look into Rhys Mathieson!

[dazzledavey36 55,312]

AFL should investigate or at least ask for a pleasr explain otherwise he will continue to get away with it every week. Drops his knees at every opportunity and sucks the umps in at all costs.

Add him to the most punchable heads too..

[Wiseblood 24,637]

Just now, dazzledavey36 said:

AFL should investigate or at least ask for a pleasr explain otherwise he will continue to get away with it every week. Drops his knees at every opportunity and sucks the umps in at all costs.

Add him to the most punchable heads too..

Our boys noticed very early too and Jones, in particular, gave him lip for the rest of the day.  I counted 6 head high free kicks from him dropping the knees and throwing his head back.

No idea why umps get sucked in either.  It's staging in it's purest form.

[SaberFang 7,151]

Was pathetic. Loved the way the crowd started booing him after the 5th or 6th free kick from "high" tackles, ie. him just throwing his head backwards into the tackler's shoulder. The one against Oliver in the dying minutes was pathetic.

How the [censored] do the umpires not converse about this at half time and stop paying it!? It was so bloody obvious to everyone; even the commentators started mocking the kid as the game went on and he was only able to win the ball via free kicks.

[Lord Travis 10,763]

He's up there behind Toby McLean and Lachie Hunter as a knee dropping cheat. What a weak peice of sh*t he is. Hope he gets his head ripped off. SOFT.

[Straight Sets Simon 23,113]

He was ducking and yet our players still tackled poorly allowing the free kicks to be drawn.

[Kumamoto_Ken 1,531]

ANB stood over him and gave him a huge serve right near the end. He was tackled high but the knees gave way and he raised a fist to the sky.

[Bring-Back-Powell 14,932]

I like the kid.

if it wasn't for him, Jeremy Cameron (who copped 4 weeks for belting him) would've played rd 1 against us.

[Demonised 1,355]

It's not just dropping the knees, either. It's the throwing the arm up to leverage the tackle neck-wards. Appalling.

[biggestred 5,125]

The one infront of the members when he threw himself backwards was the worst.

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[Rod Grinter Riot Squad 5,654]

Bit rich to say he gets away with it every week when it was his debut

[Spirit of '87 333]

For all the AFL's talk about protecting the head, the danger of concussion, the head being sacrosanct and effectively banning the bump out of the game, they still just prefer to turn a blind eye to players ducking their head and putting their own head at risk. 

[Redleg 41,398]

Don't blame the kid, the umpires were told to not pay the duck and they continually do. Blame the umpiring department for not fixing it. It is a blight on the game that rewards stagers, actors  and cheaters. 

[Rod Grinter Riot Squad 5,654]

What I would like to see them investigate, unless they showed it and I missed it, was how Petracca had his goal overturned.

The footage they showed said nothing, the commentary said if the get the definitive evidence they will show it, I never saw it...

[McQueen 17,867]

People getting stuck into him via Twitter.

[dazzledavey36 55,312]

7 minutes ago, Rod Grinter Riot Squad said:

Bit rich to say he gets away with it every week when it was his debut

I never said that. I said if the AFL don't look into it and investigate then he WILL get away with it every week.

[What 18,810]

Great first impression from the debutante. Not.

[Rod Grinter Riot Squad 5,654]

3 minutes ago, dazzledavey36 said:

I never said that. I said if the AFL don't look into it and investigate then he WILL get away with it every week.

My bad.

 

sorry.

[Kumamoto_Ken 1,531]

29 minutes ago, Kumamoto_Ken said:

ANB stood over him and gave him a huge serve right near the end. He was tackled high but the knees gave way and he raised a fist to the sky.

And here it is...the one I was talking about anyway.

 

[FireInTheBennelly 4,099]

If umps keep paying the frees there's only one way to stop it. Make sure you tackle him with full force. If he ducks he cops it. The only Demon to do that today was Vince, who really made him earn it. Eventually he'll work out that it's not the best approach. Maybe his former teammate Justin Clarke should have a word with him.

[Brenno 289]

Just gotta smash him as hard as possible every time. If he ducks into it you won't miss any weeks.  He will learn not to do it eventually and if not at least we get to see him get thumped. AFL needs to do something about it. It's cheating IMO. 

[Robot Devil 1,895]

Liked the stand-up tackle where Jonesy had Mathieson wrapped up with his arm locked through his so that he couldn't lift it up and make it high. Jonesy walked  him a few meters and I imagine whispering something in his ear that made him feel about two inches tall. 

[FireInTheBennelly 4,099]

Welcome to the party Rhys

[Demon Disciple 12,259]

27 minutes ago, McQueen said:

People getting stuck into him via Twitter.

Which twitter feed?

[leave it to deever 17,517]

It was bad but if the umps keep rewarding the players for it then I can understand they keep doing it. The bulldogs did it against us last week with great effect.

I put the fault at the feet of the umps. The standard this year has been very poor.

[monoccular 17,569]

Some day one of these cheats is going to suffer a serious neck injury and the tackler will be made to feel really badly - the AFL should (but won't) crack down on this and start paying frees against these cheating bastards.