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Dustin Martin suspension downgraded to one week

Sydee
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"The Tigers successfully argued Martin's elbow to the back of Adam Kennedy's head last weekend only constituted a low impact grading, reducing his ban to just one match."

What an absolute joke - this peanut gets a week for clearly elbowing a guy in the back of the head intentionally - nowhere near the ball and finishes up with a week

Compare this with Steven May and it's a complete farce 

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    We can’t go into a Richmond v Sydney game the week after without the Dusty v Buddy show, can we?

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    If Christian is smart he should give every suspended marque miscreant a minimum of two weeks. That way they can be downgraded to one. They get let off far too often. Leniency can be given but still punished. Should help shut up the Eddies of this world.

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    Well, now we know the AFL is not serious about ridding the game of actions like Martin's. They pay lip service to the idea of the safety of players' heads. They say they are going to come down hard on hits to the head, but they don't. What kind of message are they sending to the young kids playing football out there now? It's ok to elbow your player in the head 100 meters off the ball when he/she is not expecting it. Just great AFL. A player like Martin who is idolized by hundreds of these kids should be punished so they can see not even he can get away with such actions. But no, we get the opposite result. He receives leniency because of his popularity. WRONG MESSAGE.

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    41 minutes ago, america de cali said:

    If Christian is smart

    Immediately I can spot a flaw in your plan

     

    Just now, Dame Gaga said:

    What kind of message are they sending to the young kids playing football out there now?

    "The head is sacrosanct." Everyone knows it. Why haven't you picked up on that?

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    Steven May, Braces himself from a player running into him gets one week

    Martin elbows a guy, it's ok dustbin can i shine your boots..

    The AFL is a joke?

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    32 minutes ago, deebug said:

    Martin elbows a guy, it's ok dustbin can i shine your boots..

    Yesterday on the radio, can't remember if it was a random talkback numpty or the in-house "monday's expert" but they said ... "the public go to see the stars ... and pay good money too ... surely we want the star players out there and not in the coaches box watching?!"

    I wonder how deeply the AFL and their minions have bought into this fallacious line of thinking.

     

    34 minutes ago, deebug said:

    The AFL is a joke?

    No one's arguing with that. But no one's laughing either.

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    4 hours ago, Sydee said:

    "The Tigers successfully argued Martin's elbow to the back of Adam Kennedy's head last weekend only constituted a low impact grading, reducing his ban to just one match."

    What an absolute joke - this peanut gets a week for clearly elbowing a guy in the back of the head intentionally - nowhere near the ball and finishes up with a week

    Compare this with Steven May and it's a complete farce 

    May has been treated harsher than any player so far this year for the incident he was in.

    Braced like Cox, but didn't run across off his line to block the player like Cox did..

    No concussion or injury suffered, despite what Christian said, which was later corrected at the Tribunal.

    New grading brought in at the Tribunal that "it could have been worse", but not applied to Dusty or anyone else.

    Was not off the ball like Dusty but in play.

    Was a block, not an elbow to the side of the head, which has always been considered a low act.

    Yes once again we cop the worst of it.

    Note that Gerard Whateley and other commentators have said the umpiring at our game was very poor and guess who copped the worst of it?

    Yes we seem to do very well with the AFL.

     

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    2 hours ago, Mazer Rackham said:

    Yesterday on the radio, can't remember if it was a random talkback numpty or the in-house "monday's expert" but they said ... "the public go to see the stars ... and pay good money too ... surely we want the star players out there and not in the coaches box watching?!"

    I wonder how deeply the AFL and their minions have bought into this fallacious line of thinking.

     

    No one's arguing with that. But no one's laughing either.

    Luke Darcy was saying the same thing this morning.

    Getting a downgrade to one week was a "good result" because we "all want to see the stars of the game playing"...

    Deadset joke.

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    12 minutes ago, JTR said:

    Luke Darcy was saying the same thing this morning.

    Getting a downgrade to one week was a "good result" because we "all want to see the stars of the game playing"...

    Deadset joke.

    Leaving aside how corrupt that attitude is, I suspect the premise is wrong anyway.   I think the vast bulk of spectators don't go especially to see the stars. They go to support their team with which they have an emotional attachment (generally for no good reason).

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    At least by Martin playing against Sydney there's a 1% chance he'll re-offend and cop another suspension or get injured, and miss Anzac Eve.

    Clutching at the shortest straw possible....

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    6 hours ago, Sydee said:

    "The Tigers successfully argued Martin's elbow to the back of Adam Kennedy's head last weekend only constituted a low impact grading, reducing his ban to just one match."

    What an absolute joke - this peanut gets a week for clearly elbowing a guy in the back of the head intentionally - nowhere near the ball and finishes up with a week

    Compare this with Steven May and it's a complete farce 

    He is worth dollars plus through the turnstiles; would the 'system' care to interrupt that?

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