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1 hour ago, layzie said:

I just don't understand how the Swans feel they are a 50-50 chance for him to get off? He struck him to the head! Good on them for playing the system like a fiddle but gee wiz. 

If you choose to bump in play and accidentally ( non intentionally ) hit the head you go.

He chose to strike a player off the ball ( twice ) and will claim he accidentally hit his head. That is worse than bumping in play.

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    Of course he'll get off it's good for the Sydney market and don't forget it's good for the promotion of the game in NSW.

    How good of the AFL to give them an extra 24 hours to build up the suspense and free promotion in Sydney.

    Bravo AFL 👏 👏👏👏 Bravo.

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    Next thing you know the AFL will schedule the tribunal hearing out on the MCG as the pre-match entertainment. Will Buddy get off? (A bit like saying, will Indiana Jones get the treasure and the girl?) Stay tuned for the odds with Nathan Brown, and remember, gamble responsibly.

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    25 minutes ago, Mazer Rackham said:

    Next thing you know the AFL will schedule the tribunal hearing out on the MCG as the pre-match entertainment. Will Buddy get off? (A bit like saying, will Indiana Jones get the treasure and the girl?) Stay tuned for the odds with Nathan Jones, and remember, gamble responsibly.

    Nathan Brown maybe Maz?

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    3 hours ago, Redleg said:

    If you choose to bump in play and accidentally ( non intentionally ) hit the head you go.

    He chose to strike a player off the ball ( twice ) and will claim he accidentally hit his head. That is worse than bumping in play.

    So we can rule you out to act for Buddy

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    13 minutes ago, Longsufferingnomore said:

    So we can rule you out to act for Buddy

    👍

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    Sydney must have some basis for the appeal (no idea what it is mind). Why else would they spend the time and energy on a lost cause. And it disrupts/distracts them from their preparations for the game. Very strange 

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    12 minutes ago, BDA said:

    Sydney must have some basis for the appeal (no idea what it is mind). Why else would they spend the time and energy on a lost cause. And it disrupts/distracts them from their preparations for the game. Very strange 

    Probably not much.

    Just rolling the dice that marquis players don't get suspended.  They play! 

    Nothing to lose but a mere $10,000.

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    All the AFL have to say is “if we let Buddy off, then we’re officially sanctioning deliberate slaps/fists to the head as ok”. Doesn’t seem possible, if only on account of the precedent it sets. On the other hand, the AFL obviously thinks precedents have about a 6 day lifespan. 

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    I can only wonder what an incoming "foreign" AFL CEO, carefully headhunted from afar, would think of this competition.

    "So some guys can hit guys and get thrown in sports jail, and some guys don't? And this head-is-sacrosanct thing, I kinda get it, but it don't seem so sacrosanct out on the ballpark ..."

    "So this guy doped his whole team? Like, not just involved in it, but actually thought it up and managed it ... and he's not run outa town? What? He's coaching at another franchise??"

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    5:12pm Should have been thrown out by now, surely

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    11 minutes ago, Demonland said:

    Looks like the bromance is over…

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    Mills & Boon eat your heart out

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    If it goes for another 15 Minutes he would have got of! If he does just watch players start snotting players left right and centre!

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    32 minutes ago, jnrmac said:

    5:12pm Should have been thrown out by now, surely

    If its not Jntmac,....

    in the words of the great Terry Wallace,   "....I'll spew up..."

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    How good is AFL Counsel Andrew Woods.?   Cut and paste from AFL.Com.au below;

    referncing Fight Club,  - brilliant. Game over surely.

    "BRAZEN, COWARDLY"

    Woods sums up the AFL's argument.
     
    "I’m at a loss to think it’s less than negligible."
     
    He reiterates Franklin was angry.
     
    "Precisely what a professional AFL player should know what not to do," Woods said.
     
    "It’s brazen, it’s cowardly and the opposing player isn’t expecting that to happen to him.
     
    "It’s AFL, not Fight Club or a combat sport."
     
     
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    I find the whole spectacle made if this on the afl website a bit unsettling - “ tune in to find out if Buddy gets off for whacking another player in the head ?” Like it’s a reality tv show.
    even foxsports site the attached video with footage had 30 second pointsbet sporting add 

    AFL industry seem to have gone past it’s moral compass on a lot of this - very much a $$$$$ industry.

     

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