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1 minute ago, Demonland said:

When did this happen in the game? Would love to see footage if any.

Don't know tbh, this is kicking around on social media atm.

Best guess is a photographer picked it up but not a tv camera.

 
26 minutes ago, Lord Nev said:

Didn't want to start a new thread for this, but, just sayin....

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OMG than man Christian is such a hypocrite as well as being extremely dull mentally. 

Didn't help him very much, did it.


11 minutes ago, Redleg said:

Brilliant.

And here is the footy news " nothing to see here".

The official Christian explanation is that The West Coast player actually had his arm behind the Melbourne players neck. He sees what he wants.

 
3 minutes ago, monoccular said:

OMG than man Christian is such a hypocrite as well as being extremely dull mentally. 

Make a good Collingwood Coach.He was a backman..

8 minutes ago, John Crow Batty said:

The official Christian explanation is that The West Coast player actually had his arm behind the Melbourne players neck. He sees what he wants.

 

If Christian said that he is an id-ot.

Edited by Redleg


3 minutes ago, Redleg said:

 

If Christian said that he is an id-ot.

Red leg - even if he didn’t say he would still be an 1diot.  And a bizarre one at that.  

A picture can always tell a thousand words. It's easy to make assumptions from a single click of a picture 

I'd rather see video evidence in full motion before casting a judgement. 

Edited by dazzledavey36

10 minutes ago, John Crow Batty said:

The official Christian explanation is that The West Coast player actually had his arm behind the Melbourne players neck. He sees what he wants.

You mean sees what he is told to see - by the commentariat and  without doubt AFL HQ. 

10 minutes ago, Redleg said:

 

If Christian said that he is an id-ot.

Only joking.

15 minutes ago, John Crow Batty said:

The official Christian explanation is that The West Coast player actually had his arm behind the Melbourne players neck.

That's what it looks like to me, too.


You can clearly see the top of Sparrow's jumper and his throat.  Nothing to get upset about here, folks.

The official Match Pre-Review Officer, Brian Taylor, believed there was no case to answer. So under the protocols in place, the MRO was not required to do anything.

If it's under his neck, the Weagle has one hell of a long bendy forearm.

If it's over his neck, Sparrow's has a neck with the thickness of a shoelace.

Some optical illusion at work. We'll have to let it go and be content with the 4 points.

If Jack Viney got rubbed out because his action wasn't a good look for the game, how does this "look" any different?


6 minutes ago, In Harmes Way said:

If Jack Viney got rubbed out because his action wasn't a good look for the game, how does this "look" any different?

You need to see video. A single shot doesn't tell us anything, other than to check the video. It may have been an instantaneous positioning of the arm with no intended force. Or, apparently, the arm could have been behind the neck.

39 minutes ago, Demonstone said:

That's what it looks like to me, too.

i'm 50:50...............inconclusive........need more vision

We just want consistency. Not too hard really.

 

 
1 hour ago, dazzledavey36 said:

A picture can always tell a thousand words. It's easy to make assumptions from a single click of a picture 

I'd rather see video evidence in full motion before casting a judgement. 

I agree with this.

Viney got slammed for the how long his arm was on Collins' throat.

 

1 hour ago, Demonstone said:

You can clearly see the top of Sparrow's jumper and his throat.  Nothing to get upset about here, folks.

You can't clearly see anything from that photo, certainly not any more "clearly" than whatever was visible in the Viney footage.

Be that as it may, without video footage it's hard to compare the two. 


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