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Really happy that the AFL has decided to crack down on off the ball incidents.

Go you beauties...get this out of the game.

Wait a minute...Oh no! not inconsistencies again.

Hands up...how many of us saw this coming????

Only thing is, I thought they would at least wait until a few weeks into the season, not the first game.

 
3 minutes ago, rjay said:

Really happy that the AFL has decided to crack down on off the ball incidents.

Go you beauties...get this out of the game.

Wait a minute...Oh no! not inconsistencies again.

Hands up...how many of us saw this coming????

Only thing is, I thought they would at least wait until a few weeks into the season, not the first game.

Graded as low impact to the body.  That hit was so much harder than what May did, and the “optics” were so much worse because it was so far off the ball.  But it was exactly what I think Stewart did to Max Gawn at Geelong last year, and the talk about the hit to Max was how he faked it and Stewart didn’t even get cited from memory. Go figure.

May's shoulder hit Berry flush on the chin. 

To me it looked like Liam Jones hit Rievoldt's body and winded him badly

One was head and one was body. That's the difference.

(But I still think May's should have been a fine only)


There was no high contact, you would want to suspend someone for a bump to the body??

42 minutes ago, Moonshadow said:

May's shoulder hit Berry flush on the chin. 

To me it looked like Liam Jones hit Rievoldt's body and winded him badly

One was head and one was body. That's the difference.

(But I still think May's should have been a fine only)

So whose hit was harder?  May was graded as medium impact.  Jones as low impact?  That’s why May got suspended.

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He plays for Carlton.

Don't you get it

MRP...AFL for ( insert choice word of derision )

It's their way of manipulating the game ;)

 


I think everyone needs to find their peace with the fact that if you make contact with the head (even a glancing blow to the very tip of the chin) you’re cooked.

39 minutes ago, TeamPlayedFine39 said:

I think everyone needs to find their peace with the fact that if you make contact with the head (even a glancing blow to the very tip of the chin) you’re cooked.

But there are hits and hits !!!

slight glancing blow with no impact and assessment of no damage or effect.

AND 

ridiculous over the top grading ie medium vs low 

AND 

" the look " Which is so subjective and if added makes a good case about nothing really 

So you can manufacture a cadebif you want to and not if you don't !!!

We will come down hard on gut punches and off ball incidents.

Bloody hypocrites. 

Eddie McGuire said on Fox Footy he sat on that committee (?) and the discussion for 40 minutes was the determination to stamp this sort of thing out. Going on what was said, in his opinion Jones should be gone for a week. So what happened? Didn't Christian get the memo? Oh well. Knew it was going to happen.


In some respects this is precisely what we want from the AFL.

Both May and Jones have been dealt with based on the action, not the consequence.

May's bump made head-high contact. Jones' didn't.

It doesn't matter that both had similar levels of impact. May's offence was a worse offence than Jones' and was dealt with accordingly.

I've seen more head contact in jumper punching than Mays insignificant glance 

Absolute hypocrisy by afl

50 minutes ago, titan_uranus said:

In some respects this is precisely what we want from the AFL.

Both May and Jones have been dealt with based on the action, not the consequence.

May's bump made head-high contact. Jones' didn't.

It doesn't matter that both had similar levels of impact. May's offence was a worse offence than Jones' and was dealt with accordingly.

Bullshite!

 

4 hours ago, Moonshadow said:

May's shoulder hit Berry flush on the chin. 

To me it looked like Liam Jones hit Rievoldt's body and winded him badly

One was head and one was body. That's the difference.

(But I still think May's should have been a fine only)

"flush on the chin" is a bit of an exaggeration, moonie

more like grazed the chin. if it was flush on the chin his head would have whiplashed and he would have been out cold. the vast bulk of the impact was taken on his body 

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The rules are the rules and shouldn’t be that hard for Christian to apply consistently.  He just seems incapable of being consistent.

By the way, you can be suspended for hits to the body.  


1 hour ago, titan_uranus said:

In some respects this is precisely what we want from the AFL.

Both May and Jones have been dealt with based on the action, not the consequence.

May's bump made head-high contact. Jones' didn't.

It doesn't matter that both had similar levels of impact. May's offence was a worse offence than Jones' and was dealt with accordingly.

That’s where your wrong.  May graded as medium impact.  Jones graded as low impact.

27 minutes ago, daisycutter said:

"flush on the chin" is a bit of an exaggeration, moonie

more like grazed the chin. if it was flush on the chin his head would have whiplashed and he would have been out cold. the vast bulk of the impact was taken on his body 

I disagree. Watch the video Daisy, the point of May's shoulder hit Berry on the front of his chin, that would be 'flush'. His head tilted back and he played no further part on the game. Revoldt played on.

Had Berry been "out cold", May might well have got 3-4 weeks. He has history with the bump. Not sure Jones does.

 

 
2 hours ago, titan_uranus said:

May's bump made head-high contact. Jones' didn't.

May did Not make contact to the head !

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8 hours ago, Moonshadow said:

I disagree. Watch the video Daisy, the point of May's shoulder hit Berry on the front of his chin, that would be 'flush'. His head tilted back and he played no further part on the game. Revoldt played on.

Had Berry been "out cold", May might well have got 3-4 weeks. He has history with the bump. Not sure Jones does.

 

his head didn't tilt back with respect to his body. sure, his whole body tilted back (and hit the ground) but his head stayed in line with his body with no independent movement of the head which you would expect if it was flush. the chin is the lowest part of the head and yes his shoulder made chin contact but it was minor and his body took the majority of the impact. 


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