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Bontempelli hit on Oliver and Daniel tackle on Gawn: both reportable for mine.
Bontempelli - 1 week; Daniel a fine at least.

MRO: nothing to see here - laughable.

 
46 minutes ago, Mono said:

Bontempelli hit on Oliver and Daniel tackle on Gawn: both reportable for mine.
Bontempelli - 1 week; Daniel a fine at least.

MRO: nothing to see here - laughable.

Sorry 100% disagree with the Daniel tackle

Bont 100% agree basically AFL tried to stamp this out a few years ago but only pick and choose when to enforce it.

 

Bont was lucky he hit Oliver in the shoulder,

As for Daniel, all the boys are making fun of gawn for flopping and making it look worse

Move on bud we won the flag

FREED FROM DESIRE!


Grand final or round 1, you have to protect the head. Remember Troy Simmonds? Bont should get at least a week for that. Hit Clarry in the neck at best. Dangerous, negligent, can't be allowed to happen

Gawn wore a nice bump on his head after that sling tackle, but i think he made a bit of a goose of himself and exaggerated the fall to get the free.

Bont should have been reported for that hit. Oliver was over the ball and vulnerable and he elected to bump. No other way of looking at it.

Im hoping Christiansen's is removed as he has been far too inconsistent. The AFL (Scott) need to fix up the gaping holes in the MRO grading system - it is reprehensible. Outcome vs Intent - i dont really care which way we go but select one and tell the footy loving public. 

Nothing in em. 
Like Trac said, come on Max. 
Bont was lucky it wasn’t  a bit worse. Should’ve made it worse, if he really went through him they probably win. 

Edited by Deestroy All

 

I don't see why reportable offences should be overlooked just because we won.   Seemed clear to me that #4 hit his neck, not his shoulder and no question he intended to bump.  I wonder what those downplaying this would say if Clarry couldn't play on and we lost the match.

As for Gawn, the players may well be mocking him - who could resist?, but I can't see how anyone could bang their head into the ground like he did just to play things up. His head clealry moved too fast into the ground.  Maybe his arms waved about unnecessarily, but look at the replay. Where did the momentum for his head hitting the ground come from other than from the tackle?

I'm too afraid to mention the 1st quarter Demon player closed fist  to the face of a Bulldogs player in a tackle. So I wont.

Edited by John Demonic


They were both found guilty of playing for the second best team and have to live with that forever.

5 minutes ago, sue said:

I don't see why reportable offences should be overlooked just because we won.   Seemed clear to me that #4 hit his neck, not his shoulder and no question he intended to bump.  I wonder what those downplaying this would say if Clarry couldn't play on and we lost the match.

As for Gawn, the players may well be mocking him - who could resist?, but I can't see how anyone could bang their head into the ground like he did just to play things up. His head clealry moved too fast into the ground.  Maybe his arms waved about unnecessarily, but look at the replay. Where did the momentum for his head hitting the ground come from other than from the tackle?

Agree with you on this. His head literally bounced off the ground. 

I’m more interested in why 7’s offical Twitter account quickly deleted the footage of the shnoz’s hit on Oliver after putting it up. 

Edited by Ethan Tremblay

1 hour ago, John Demonic said:

I'm too afraid to mention the 1st quarter Demon player closed fist  to the face of a Bulldogs player in a tackle. So I wont.

Mention the Bulldogs player so I can know if it was worth it.


I was a little surprised that Gawn didn't get a free as the tackle was over the boundary line, but I think that in the wrap up, their humiliation is punishment enough. 

I agree that Gawny exaggerated the momentum of the tackle a bit, and then hit his head as kind of an instant karma. Then, Caleb was a bit of an aggressive goose in response to Gawn's overacting goose, and then the Melbourne Demons showed no mercy from that point on.

The Bont v. Oliver one wasn't great. I think it's borderline fine/1 week suspension, for mine. But maybe in a GF it gets under the radar. I think the Trac v. Bont one is in the same category. Borderline, but both should get off without further issues.

1 hour ago, John Demonic said:

I'm too afraid to mention the 1st quarter Demon player closed fist  to the face of a Bulldogs player in a tackle. So I wont.

Yeah, I saw that and thought he may get pinged for it.

Bont gets at least a fine in the regular season but who cares.

Caleb is still 5 foot 7. On a good day.

No issue with the Daniel tackle. Come on guys.

But I have an issue with the Bont bump. He chooses to bump and contacts the head. How many times has the AFL said the head is sacrosanct, and that if you choose to bump and make high contact, you're in trouble?

It shouldn't matter that it's the GF and the season's over. 


11 minutes ago, titan_uranus said:

No issue with the Daniel tackle. Come on guys.

But I have an issue with the Bont bump. He chooses to bump and contacts the head. How many times has the AFL said the head is sacrosanct, and that if you choose to bump and make high contact, you're in trouble?

It shouldn't matter that it's the GF and the season's over. 

I'd agree if he'd hit his head. But didn't he collide with the shoulder? I appreciate Oliver appeared momentarily stunned, so perhaps there was some contact, but having seen it a few times, I'm comfortable with there being no penalty.

What suprises me with the Daniel tackle on Gawn was that no free kick was paid. It shouldn't matter that the ball is out of play. Again, though, I don't think there was enough in it for the MRO. However, the Western Australian equivalent of Worksafe should look at whether its a safe workplace if the artificial turf is on top of a hard surface. It's very close to the real turf and one day someone could be very badly hurt from a hard landing.

1 hour ago, Bitter but optimistic said:

Bont was bloody lucky for mine !

Have a look at the replay and watch Bont - no eyes on the ball - he is lining Oliver up.

Agreed

1 or 2 weeks (normally) but double that because it's a GF

As you said, he lined up Oliver with intent and there was contact to the head.  The AFL can't even uphold their own rules

And according to the rules it's a no-brainer ... a suspension of some sort should have followed

Daniel tackle should have been a free. It was dangerous and out of play. I completely reject the assertion that Gawn hammed it up. The logical inference is that he hit his head on the astroturf hard enough to take skin off on purpose. Okay then 👍 but like I said, just a missed free.

 
2 hours ago, CYB said:

Gawn wore a nice bump on his head after that sling tackle, but i think he made a bit of a goose of himself and exaggerated the fall to get the free.

Bont should have been reported for that hit. Oliver was over the ball and vulnerable and he elected to bump. No other way of looking at it.

Im hoping Christiansen's is removed as he has been far too inconsistent. The AFL (Scott) need to fix up the gaping holes in the MRO grading system - it is reprehensible. Outcome vs Intent - i dont really care which way we go but select one and tell the footy loving public. 

Are you kidding CYB? I was concerned Max might have been concussed. Besides that, Danial's action happened AFTER  both were over the boundary line. It was unduly rough behavior and was worth at least two weeks. Daniel is very lucky Max got up. People are saying how great it was Max said Dogga should take the ruck for the rest of the quarter. How about Max being stunned and having to recover from having his head swung onto the artificial surface, not even the grass, and having to spend time on the bench to recover? . 

2 hours ago, Deestroy All said:

Nothing in em. 
Like Trac said, come on Max. 
Bont was lucky it wasn’t  a bit worse. Should’ve made it worse, if he really went through him they probably win. 

Come on, DE. Daniel's sling tackle on Max was extremely dangerous, besides them both being over the effing boundary line!


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