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"Carlton coach David Teague has implemented a team-wide anti-taunting policy, as debate rages over on-field player behaviour across the AFL" 

John Ralph reports  “...Cain Liddle (CEO Carlton)...said ‘I think Teaguey’s one of those coaches who says toughness and courage is putting your head over the footy and getting it done for your mates, as opposed to banging into people when they’re not looking or slamming people’s heads into the ground". 

A nice little backhander for Dimmawit and Lynch. 

I wouldn't be surprised if he got a 'please explain' from management at the Tigers, after all someone there removed his insults to Ox from the interview on their website.

Edited August 21, 20204 yr by Lucifer's Hero

Tom Lynch, Richmond, has been charged with Striking Michael Hurley, Essendon, during the fourth quarter of the Round 13 match between Essendon and Richmond, played at TIO Stadium on Saturday August 22.The incident was classified as a direct referral to the Tribunal and the player cannot be offered an early plea.

 

Lynch charge for punching Hurley in the throat dismissed!

"I was only doing what Dimma and Wally did in the 2000 GF"

Someone needs to fix him up good!

Edited August 24, 20204 yr by Pollyanna

Meanwhile, they have quietly swept under the carpet that Dahlhaus was only given a week for his sling tackle.

Spot the difference...

https://www.afl.com.au/news/490295/match-review-cat-suspended-for-dangerous-tackle-lion-cops-ban

https://www.afl.com.au/news/482108/banned-tribunal-throws-book-at-demon-for-dangerous-tackle

Edited August 24, 20204 yr by JTR

16 minutes ago, JTR said:

Meanwhile, they have quietly swept under the carpet that Dahlhaus was only given a week for his sling tackle.

Spot the difference...

https://www.afl.com.au/news/490295/match-review-cat-suspended-for-dangerous-tackle-lion-cops-ban

https://www.afl.com.au/news/482108/banned-tribunal-throws-book-at-demon-for-dangerous-tackle

Yer, was waiting for this, i so hate the AFL.

FFS Melbourne ask what the hell, please show us you have at least something?

What is the difference between the Dalhaus tackle and Neale Bullen's???????????????????????????????????????????????????????The easy answer is three weeks. The real answer is because he plays for Geelong, not Melbourne.

27 minutes ago, JTR said:

Meanwhile, they have quietly swept under the carpet that Dahlhaus was only given a week for his sling tackle.

Spot the difference...

https://www.afl.com.au/news/490295/match-review-cat-suspended-for-dangerous-tackle-lion-cops-ban

https://www.afl.com.au/news/482108/banned-tribunal-throws-book-at-demon-for-dangerous-tackle

Main difference? No concussion, which was pure luck. This time the player put his hand out to protect the fall, Nibbler’s didn’t. 

I also thought ANB was done in by the medical staff saying he would be on reduced duties for at least a week before returning, but the injured player had battled concussion issues earlier in the year so of course they were going to do that.

Of course the other obvious difference is that it’s a name player who doesn’t play for Melbourne. The MRO/Tribunal is the most biased piece of ? involved with the AFL.

 

[censored] I’d be [censored] if I were nibbler. What is the difference in the action that makes its 3 weeks more??  - surely not the outcome if the player ended up more concussed than the other  , I thought they were supposed to judge the action or does that only apply or not apply if they want to get a star hawthorn or cats player off on a technicality?

the logical part of my brain says that this isn’t all comprised,  but it I’m really struggling atm to see how it’s not 

Lynch decision , we’ll I’m not surprised either 

This is a bloody joke. The MFC should be taking this up with the AFL demanding an answer as to why there is such a disparity in the penalties. 

Posted this in the Non-MFC thread, Nibbler should take the AFL to court for loss of match payments:

This was what Gil said after Burgoyne got away with the first tackle this year:

AFL chief executive Gillon McLachlan said the change would ensure the potential injury of a hazardous tackle would be taken into account by the match review officer when grading an incident.

“We want to be clear; protection of the head is our highest priority and we want all players at all levels and age groups to better understand that these tackles shouldn’t be part of our game.

“Dangerous tackles have the potential to cause head injuries, and it is essential that this is taken into account when assessing an incident under the AFL Tribunal guidelines.”

What an absolute load of bull?!

Corrupt is the only word

Lynch cleared by the tribunal for his throat punch on Hurley. Another fine by the MRP would have seen him suspended under the three fines and you’re suspended policy. Was he sent directly to the tribunal to be cleared and avoid another fine, therefore avoiding a mandatory suspension? 

Edited August 24, 20204 yr by Ethan Tremblay

28 minutes ago, Ethan Tremblay said:

Lynch cleared by the tribunal for his throat punch on Hurley. Another fine by the MRP would have seen him suspended under the three fines and you’re suspended policy. Was he sent directly to the tribunal to be cleared and avoid another fine, therefore avoiding a mandatory suspension? 

Yes he was.  Richmond are the AFL's pets

53 minutes ago, Ethan Tremblay said:

Lynch cleared by the tribunal for his throat punch on Hurley. Another fine by the MRP would have seen him suspended under the three fines and you’re suspended policy. Was he sent directly to the tribunal to be cleared and avoid another fine, therefore avoiding a mandatory suspension? 

I'm still wondering how he wasn't already suspended.

He had the fine from earlier in the season after pushing Witherdens head in the ground, then got two $1000 fines for striking Witts & Collins.

Witherden, Witts, Collins = three.

Did they only count the latter two as a single offence 'cause it happened in the same game? ?

Edited August 24, 20204 yr by JTR

The young umpire that reported him will be severely reprimanded and will be explained the meaning of "managed results" 

The WWE has more integrity.

9 hours ago, Ethan Tremblay said:

Lynch cleared by the tribunal for his throat punch on Hurley. Another fine by the MRP would have seen him suspended under the three fines and you’re suspended policy. Was he sent directly to the tribunal to be cleared and avoid another fine, therefore avoiding a mandatory suspension? 

It was an open hand. Move on.

Lynch is now a proven recidivist so will get his come uppance eventually. 

And Dimma is wrecking the Tiges brand of inclusion and enlightenment carefully nutured by Gale, , Paggy O'neil and the Board by his reversion to type when under pressure.

20 minutes ago, Demon17 said:

It was an open hand. Move on.

You missed my point, it wasn’t that he didn’t get suspended by the tribunal for that incident. 

Edited August 24, 20204 yr by Ethan Tremblay

Pathetic flogs will continue to be pathetic flogs. Embarrassing look for the AFL but nobody puts the AFL’s love child in the corner apparently. 

12 hours ago, Wadda We Sing said:

The young umpire that reported him will be severely reprimanded and will be explained the meaning of "managed results" 

Yes, as Roy and HG would say, beautifully managed.

27 minutes ago, Brownie said:

Yes, as Roy and HG would say, beautifully managed.

They never miss a beat do they....

17 hours ago, bobby1554 said:

This is a bloody joke. The MFC should be taking this up with the AFL demanding an answer as to why there is such a disparity in the penalties. 

Should ........ won’t.  
56 years in the wilderness. 

6 hours ago, Ethan Tremblay said:

You missed my point, it wasn’t that he didn’t get suspended by the tribunal for that incident. 

Got it and well made.

Was it a convoluted method by Christian to avoid the suspension but appear to be 'doing something', which was likely to be challenged by the tiges and redacted following a successful appeal due to to type of action. Maybe?

18 hours ago, Ethan Tremblay said:

Lynch cleared by the tribunal for his throat punch on Hurley. Another fine by the MRP would have seen him suspended under the three fines and you’re suspended policy. Was he sent directly to the tribunal to be cleared and avoid another fine, therefore avoiding a mandatory suspension? 

 

18 hours ago, Pickett2Jackson said:

Yes he was.  Richmond are the AFL's pets

A lifetime's experience tells me that whenever you have a choice between a conspiracy or a [censored]-up, choose the [censored]-up every time.

I don't think the AFL is clever enough to organise this conspiracy. It is, however, perfectly capable of this type of mistake.

(As an aside, lots of AFL staff got the chop yesterday. I wonder how close Steven Hocking was to the Gil-otine blade? Seems to me there's a lot in his job description that isn't going the way that it should.)

 

Edit: for "censored" read "rooster", or at least the derivative or nickname often used inoffensively as in "Coq au Vin" (Let's see if that passes the officious auto-censor. I had used a zero instead of the letter o, but that didn't work) 

Edited August 25, 20204 yr by La Dee-vina Comedia
self-evident

30 minutes ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

 

(As an aside, lots of AFL staff got the chop yesterday. I wonder how close Steven Hocking was to the Gil-otine blade? Seems to me there's a lot in his job description that isn't going the way that it should.)

or does he just do gil's bidding?

Someone needs to actually have a serious word to the Tigers. We've seen the stuff happening onfield with staging and punching etc, then we had Dimma's poor comments about Schwarz (particularly poor given it's the same club involved with Shane Tuck, Danny Frawley and Reece McKenzie) and now their CEO has made an appalling comment comparing Lynch's treatment to that of serial killer Ivan Milat.

Imagine being the family of one of Milat's victims and being reminded of the horror and tragedy because an [censored] CEO thought his undisciplined forward was being victimized like a murderer. Absolutely pathetic coming from someone spoken about as a potential replacement for Gil.

Read here:

“Tom plays it pretty hard and he cops a lot, he plays a physical brand of footy, but the scrutiny and the attention he’s received, it’s outrageous,” he told 3AW Sportsday.

“I can’t believe it, it’s like he’s Ivan Milat,” Gale quipped, referring to the serial killer who took the lives of seven backpackers in the early 1990s.

‘Like he’s Ivan Milat’: Tigers CEO stunned by ‘outrageous’ criticism of Tom Lynch