4 minutes ago, YearOfTheDees said:

I think we had to pay $10,000 to appeal which we get back if/when we win.

 

Is that reasonable? 😁

I'll be pleasantly surprised if he gets off.

But I don't think he will

Just now, Mickey said:

I'll be pleasantly surprised if he gets off.

But I don't think he will

I agree. The vibes are off and I don’t think our counter argument was at all strong enough. 

Houghton to Woods.....

 

Im more worried about the kid in his 5th game getting all this lumped on him, when he was doing nothing more than following a coaches instructions.

10minutes to work out that they don't have any questions. I don't feel good about this.

My dog and children are hungry.  Let this madness end now please.

1 minute ago, Mickey said:

I'll be pleasantly surprised if he gets off.

But I don't think he will

Agree. Happy with our response either way. 

Just now, Wadda We Sing said:

Im more worried about the kid in his 5th game getting all this lumped on him, when he was doing nothing more than following a coaches instructions.

Add to that all the boo's he's getting whenever he goes near the ball 😭

The Appeal Board is back and has no questions.

The Appeal Board is NOW deliberating.

It appears the Appeal Board has folded and will come back with a ruling in favor of the AFL.

Assuming this.... they are now tainted with the AFL's "make it up as you go along" brush and as a club we can expect further unreasonable outcomes such as this in future but ONLY when/where it suits the AFL to do so.

A similar occurrence with others (eg; Fogarty) will result in said player not even being sited, cleared even if he is or a minor slap on the wrist depending on the Player/Club in question.

The circus rolls on!

Edited May 11, 20231 yr by Demon Dynasty

Where is the Carlton lawyer?

General feeling on Tweeter is that we have not done enough to over turn the decision. And a lot of stuff about Shrek.

3 minutes ago, Mickey said:

I'll be pleasantly surprised if he gets off.

But I don't think he will

Yeah. There's a "predetermined" feel to all this. 

Comes down to fingers crossed for me 

Yeah our arguments at both appeals don't seem very strong

There are better lawyers on this website ffs. Why was our argument so weak?

32 minutes ago, Jaded No More said:

Except nowhere in the law does it say that you have a duty of care when going to contest the ball. 
Where is that specific law? 

When you're banging your head against a brick wall (AFL) good luck.

On a different note, not entirely sure we were thoroughly strong with our case. Felt like Adrian Anderson had a stronger case.

7 minutes ago, John Demonic said:

`Who's on the appeals board?

 

 

Behind closed doors the appeals board spin the giant wheel of misfortune

Does anyone know if the David King 55% stat on JVR includes that high ball forward on the weekend? You know the one that landed on a Sun in the pock....

Oh, ahhh, never mind.

It’s the vibe of the thing

Our argument was strong in its simplicity. There is no rule against what JVR did.

This is really embarrassing for the game can't have a go at Football "soccer" anymore after this.

This Tweet

Just saw on the news that Brad Green has been sanctioned by the AFL for his twitter comment into this ban!

The club has been asked to explain his criticism of the Tribunal on Twitter

 

Lets take it to The Hague..

1 minute ago, Jaded No More said:

There are better lawyers on this website ffs. Why was our argument so weak?

Dennis Deenuto

2 minutes ago, dazzledavey36 said:

When you're banging your head against a brick wall (AFL) good luck.

On a different note, not entirely sure we were thoroughly strong with our case. Felt like Adrian Anderson had a stronger case.

Maybe we're going with an alternative plan. Perhaps the strategy has always been to lose gallantly to get the rest of the team up in arms with an "us and them mentality" which is intended to take them through to the end of September. Mind you, it's not the strategy I'd be going with.