Salem Suspended

[Chris 2,892]

Salem has been given a week for his elbow. 

Cunnington predictably got a $1000 fine for intentionally punching someone on the field.

The MRP are a joke! How Salem can get the same as Thompson is beyond me. 

Update. Higgins also got $1000 for striking Clarry. Both Higgins and Cuntington were deemed intentional with low impact. Higgins got off completely for hitting Vince.

The protection of that puss bag of a club continues. I hope we smash them in Hobart later in the year, don't care if the whole team ends up suspended just pummel the twerps into the ground.

Edited May 22, 2017 by Chris

[beelzebub 23,390]

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[Straight Sets Simon 23,113]

Any footage of it?

[TeamPlayedFine39 8,525]

Utter garbage.

What Salem needed to do was grab a handful or his jumper, then beat him to death with an iron bar.

[Forest Demon 4,681]

Really? It was a bit silly, but there was hardly any force whatsoever, I honestly didn't even contemplate it being a suspension.

[Chris 2,892]

Just now, Forest Demon said:

Really? It was a bit silly, but there was hardly any force whatsoever, I honestly didn't even contemplate it being a suspension.

I thought maybe a week but going off precedent of what Thompson did to Dangerfield there is no way it is a week. Maybe a suspect medical report came in about a broken jaw he will play with next week is behind it!

[Die Hard Demon 1,224]

Why the f*** are we always made an example out of !? I'm sure there has been similar incidents this year with no suspensions.

[Moonshadow 17,678]

Unsociable football. Who'd of thunk it?

[danielE288 779]

Joke. The AFL has it in for us  I'm sure of it, handful of teams they'd rather see successful before us.

[beelzebub 23,390]

and the club does ?

[TheoX 1,222]

MRP hate our guts. How does Cnutington not get banned for a deliberate punch.

[Bates Mate 4,511]

who is on the MRP ? I'm convinced they have it against us!! and that "name" players are a protected species.

[Lord Travis 10,793]

6 minutes ago, Clint Bizkit said:

Any footage of it?

http://www.afl.com.au/news/2017-05-22/mrp-cunnington-escapes-with-fine-salem-suspended

Salem should get a week. Stupid unnecessary thing to do. How Cunnington and Higgins escape suspension after intentionally striking is beyond me. Higgins was offered a fine for 'intentionally striking to the head'. Not even in play, just intentionally hit someone in the head. How is that not suspension worthy? The AFL and MRP should be ashamed of themselves for the inconsistency and stupidity. According to their rules it's now ok to punch your opponent in the head, jumper grabbed or not. The precedent is set after letting multiple people off in the past fortnight. Hopefully our club got the memo and next week they try to break a few jaws. What a farce!

[Chris 2,892]

Next time we play the Roos we should just openly punch every player, just not to the head, hit them really hard in the stomach repetedly. Do that all game, cop the fines, walk away.

[Chris 2,892]

1 minute ago, Lord Travis said:

http://www.afl.com.au/news/2017-05-22/mrp-cunnington-escapes-with-fine-salem-suspended

Salem should get a week. Stupid unnecessary thing to do. How Cunnington and Higgins escape suspension after intentionally striking is beyond me. Higgins was offered a fine for 'intentionally striking to the head'. Not even in play, just intentionally hit someone in the head. How is that not suspension worthy? The AFL and MRP should be ashamed of themselves for the inconsistency and stupidity. According to their rules it's now ok to punch your opponent in the head, jumper grabbed or not. The precedent is set after letting multiple people off in the past fortnight. Hopefully our club got the memo and next week they try to break a few jaws. What a farce!

The MRP decided the strike was to his body so he got off. Punch away boys, just not to the head!

[Biffen 12,949]

Any chance we might appeal or do we just cop their crap?

i could handle losing to Hawthorn 16 times but not this team of scum.

FFS.

 

[Mazer Rackham 14,971]

1 minute ago, Die Hard Demon said:

 I'm sure there has been similar incidents this year with no suspensions.

That almost goes without saying.

Next week someone will elbow someone in the head and get off under some tortured logic, and someone else will get a week for a jumper punch that the recipient barely notices.

The MRP are a befuddled bunch who don't seem to have a clear handle on what they are doing. They probably walk into doors a lot and have ink on their tongues from sucking their biros.

In any other walk of life such inconsistency and weird reasoning would have them labelled as "in crisis".

[JV7 2,375]

Salem deserves a week but it's the fact Scott Thompson did an almost identical act earlier in the year and got a fine... There is no consistency whatsoever. Cotchin punches someone in the jaw & it's rated as careless not intentional so why's Salems intentional ? The AFL needs to do something at the end of this year, scrap the ticking the boxes & just look at an incident & say that deserves X about of weeks... Not rocket science

Cunnington should have got a week. 

[Chris 2,892]

1 minute ago, Biffen said:

Any chance we might appeal or do we just cop their crap?

i could handle losing to Hawthorn 16 times but not this team of scum.

FFS.

 

No point appealing Salem. Was worth a week, unless you look at precedent! Nothing we can appeal for fines against players boxing on that aren't in our team. 

[Lord Travis 10,793]

Just now, Biffen said:

Any chance we might appeal or do we just cop their crap?

i could handle losing to Hawthorn 16 times but not this team of scum.

FFS.

 

No point appealing the Salem suspension. Watch the footage in the link I posted a few posts back. It was a stupid thing to do and a fair penalty.

The North ones are a joke though. Intentional strikes that left players either dazed on the ground for 30-60 seconds or dry reaching on the bench for 2-3 minutes. Disgusting decision by the AFL and MRP, and sets an ugly precedent going forward. The game may get very ugly for a while until they change their tune. It's now fine to punch away!

[Chris 2,892]

1 minute ago, JV7 said:

Salem deserves a week but it's the fact Scott Thompson did an almost identical act earlier in the year and got a fine... There is no consistency whatsoever. Cotchin punches someone in the jaw & it's rated as careless not intentional so why's Salems intentional ? The AFL needs to do something at the end of this year, scrap the ticking the boxes & just look at an incident & say that deserves X about of weeks... Not rocket science

Cunnington should have got a week. 

Thompson got a week but hit much harder and with the point of his elbow. 

[JV7 2,375]

1 minute ago, Chris said:

Thompson got a week but hit much harder and with the point of his elbow. 

He did too.. I knew whatever he got was unders, I thought he should have got 2 weeks

[rolling fog 1,208]

The Salem call is likely a fair one.

But the North players getting away with $1000 fines is ridiculous - MRP made a rod for their own back last week with the Cotchin 'fine' and we just got the rough end of it yesterday 

[brendan 3,445]

Something is wrong with the system and needs to be changed, Salem can cop his week but the punch in the gut to Vince who was forced from the ground and was almost spewing and to only cop $1000 is just wrong, if AFL Doesn't change the rules on that this week I would be telling the players if someone is giving you a hard time punch them in the guts as it will only cost $1000 it's not a good look for the game 

[Ethan Tremblay 31,243]