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I think he’s a bit unlucky, the margin between a good tackle and a dangerous one is very small. It will be interesting if the club challenges it or not.

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    Thought it didn’t deserve more than two as he has no previous record and didn’t pin both arms.

    They are just making an example using a low profile player.

    Its not right, but it’s the way the AFL  is , very knee jerk and inconsistent.

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    As I said earlier, this is absolutely disgraceful corrupt behaviour, but also totally predictable.  
     

    Both of Burgoyne’s were full body slam tackles; ANB was swung around by the jumper and one arm.
     

    But the inept / corrupt AFL can’t see this, or doesn’t want to more likely.  
     

     

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    The AFL are dealing with this too simplistically. Punishing poor technique is the only thing they are doing (and I don’t know what ANB could actually do differently on this one). It’s part of the puzzle.

    Players need to be trained to protect them self in tackles rather than trying to dispose of the ball. This adds one layer of protection. I’d suggest a minimal 10 minutes per week per player of “getting tackled safely” training rather than the “get my arms clear so I can dispose of the ball” training they are clearly doing.

    Umpires need to pay the free kick as soon as the tackle sticks and it stops the tackled player’s movement where there was prior opportunity. They don’t and this makes the tacklers get more and more aggressive to bring the player down. If umpires paid these, that final force wouldn’t happen nearly as much.

    Why the AFL cannot perform a simple root cause analysis is beyond me.

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    I'll say this 

    1 The club SHOULD appeal

    2 The AFL NOW MUST rub out any player who does the same thing for 4 weeks.

    Let's see some consistency then. Bet if its a star it will just be a Fine or at best a week!

    Garbage Decision!

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    21 minutes ago, Uncle Fester said:

    Not that it should come into consideration (and [censored] it, it was a hard tackle not him pulling out a knife), they have just killed his afl career. 
     

    A joke, and not even a funny one 

    This. They don’t give two [censored] about anything but their fat wallets. ANB deserved a term, four weeks excessive though and going to make it hard for him to come back. The hypocrisy is just predictable and vomit inducing.

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    It’s not the 4 weeks I care about. It was dangerous and it caused serious damage. 
    Its simply the fact that the treatment of the AFL is completely inconsistent between big name players, big clubs, no name players and small clubs. And that is not a just or fair system. 
    But the AFL isn’t alone. People with money are often able to get away with a lot more in the criminal justice system. It’s unfair but it’s life. 

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    1 hour ago, gs77 said:

    4 weeks. We all know there's not an iota of a chance of that sentence being handed down if it were Dusty, Ablett, etc.  And that's after a guilty plea??? Far out.

    Was it last year that Dusty elbowed a GWS player with force to the head behind play and got 1 week?? Disgrace. 

    Unbelievably stiff ANB. 

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    18 minutes ago, DeadlyDees said:

    I want to see the same result when someone like Dangerfield does something similar on the eve of the finals!

    Surely the AFL wouldn't have double standards? I mean if a player like Trent Cotchin bumped someone like Dylan Shiel in the head in a Preliminary Final there is no way the AFL would let them off so they could play in the Grand Final

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    This is all easily solved. Allow any club to challenge at the tribunal. 

    That way the Tribunal would have to deal with the constant threat that Melbourne is waiting in the wings to challenge when Ablett slings someone the week before the finals. It would ensure consistency, and protect smaller clubs.

    Short of that, step up and defend the club Melbourne. I’m tired of supporting a spineless club.

     

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    8 hours ago, old dee said:

    They make examples of lesser players not important rating gaining players.

    Exactly the Absolute Farce League rolls on. It's a massive jocks club, if you're not one of the popular ones you get hung out to dry. No way Dusty, Cotchin, Pendlebury, Fyfe, Neale etc etc get 4 weeks for the same incident. Only some relative no name like ANB because the AFL can be seen to be tough on "dangerous tackles".

    The club should challenge on the grounds the Tribunals decision was excessive and refer to previous incidents as precedence. He didn't even have both arms pinned which is usually the litmus test for dangerous sling tackles.

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    Accidental. Good tackle. Condemned by Brereton on the commentary, one of the biggest offender thugs in the game who did it deliberately. Burgoyne and Ablett get off. Get [censored] AFL.

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    BLM. 

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    Awful, truly awful 

    Rules are changing with the wind

    How Burgoyne got nothing was a joke

    ANB deserved 2, clearly, was bad

    But 4 weeks is punishment magnified by the community's dissatisfaction with prior AFL light decisions  -  a completed  [I'll Censor Myself] joke

    Appeal please !!!

    Edited by Graeme Yeats' Mullet

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    13 minutes ago, My name is legion said:

    What??????????? This has nothing to do with that. 

    Doesn’t it?

    Give me you reasoning...

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    What did you guys expect?

    He’s not in the Dangerfield, Cotchin, Martin, Burgoyne “boys club” so he was always going to cop full tote dividends.

    At least the tribunal has saved Goodwin the job of giving him the tap on the shoulder as he was simply warming the seat for Kozi, and he was quite frankly poor on Wednesday night.

    Edited by Bring-Back-Powell

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    1 hour ago, rjay said:

    Trengove again...

    Spot on we are the guinea pigs again 

    Appeal Dees Nibbler  hung out to dry 

    Could be the end of his career even. 

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    2 hours ago, Flemo56 said:

    Gary Lyon just now “ I wonder if it was a big name player”! ? And moved on 

    this [censored] me from a supposed lover of the MFC......he needs to make it known that there are injustices at play. McGuire brereton maclure Brown would be incomprehensible if it were to their teams. 

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