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4 minutes ago, DeeMee said:

Umpires relieved they wont have to make 10 reports per game this weekend.

The AFL can sneak off and change the rules now and that's fine. Just let the players know first.

 

Great play Jacob.  Great play MFC!  ❤️💙

 
1 minute ago, Stu said:

When I heard the good news I literally flexed like JVR did after he goaled against the tigers! 

Has an Ambulance been called?

12 minutes ago, picket fence said:

AFL NEED NOW TO TAKE A VERY HARD LONG FREAKIN LOOK AT CITATIONS, APPEALS ETC ETC BASKET CASE PROCESS !!!

...and the anointed people, their preferences and  behaviours that impose such misery on the general public. You can fool the people above you some of the time, but you cannot fool the general public.


Finally common sense has prevailed.

It's absolutely embarrassing that he even got reported for it.

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2 minutes ago, Kiss of Death said:

Hello old friend, I remember you from many close defeats snatched from the jaws of victory. 

now that’s settled let’s get on with trouncing the poos and pees by 120 points, we owe them multiple times over 

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We busted it 

 

I luv how they considered only the first ground and left remaining grounds verdicts unknown. Basically saying to the AFL if you don't get your rules correct, we'll be back here again ... on a very similar case.

$$$ thank you very much now and in the future!!


5 minutes ago, layzie said:

Probably no better song to finish tonight off with.

 

 

Sorry buddy, here's the correct version

#ShannonNoll_AustralianIdol
 

 

7 minutes ago, YearOfTheDees said:

Spot on. Appeals board rules that the Tribunal is not permitted to make up the rules as it goes along...

And don’t forget dimwit Christian who takes his prompts from sensationalist media commentators. He can’t make up rules on the run either. 


I went to the match on Saturday thinking it was going to be a nothing game tucked away at the Gold Coast. I guess I ended up seeing a bit of football history.

Reasons from Appeal Board chair Murray Kellam:

Law 18.5 refers only to incidental contact and makes no mention of unreasonable contact.

These laws and the drafting of them, in our view, support the contentions of the appellant (Melbourne) that law 18.5 must be read in its terms.

We recognise that the concerns expressed by the Chair of the Tribunal about an extreme characterisation of incidental contact have validity and that concern is, in our view, well justified.

However, that does not permit us to interpret rule 18.5 as containing additional words, or to introduce exceptions into the meaning of law 18.5, which is not supported by the text nor, as far as we can ascertain, the spirit and intention of law 18.5.

It's not for this board to redraft the laws of Australian Football in circumstances whereby the meaning of the law is clear on the face of it.

Accordingly, we conclude that ground one of the appellants notice of appeal succeeds. It's not necessary for us in those circumstances to determine ground two.


5 minutes ago, Redleg said:

That will help culture and show the players they are always supported by their club and fans.

Don't underestimate how all of the boys would be feeling now, especially JVR.

May i say, some handy feedback & LEG work

Read the tea leaves well 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Big boys stand up and the Club stood up big time tonight, well done to the MFC.

No longer the doormat.

#Justice

#Roofree

 

 
3 minutes ago, Palace Dees said:

Probably been said somewhere here but hanging out to play GC again and see Will Powell 'get what he deserves' 😈

Will Powell has to wake and look in the mirror every single day - I think that’s punishment enough 

6 minutes ago, Redleg said:

Absolutely.

The Chairman on tuesday at the Tribunal made it up as he went along.

He added things to the rules, that weren't there.

Actually pretty simple.

Correct - as you and some others have pointed out this process was an appeal and the advocate for the MFC had the task of convincing the appeals board that Tuesday’s Tribunal erred in their interpretation of the AFL’s rules. 

“The tribunal chairman Jeff Gleeson KC said that although it was reasonable for the young Demon to assess the situation in the way he did they decided ‘a reasonable player would have seen that in spoiling the ball in the way he did would almost inevitably have resulted in a forceful blow to Ballard’s head’”.

Besides being complete and utter gobbledygook, Gleeson was attempting to rewrite the rule book. If allowed to stand, the Tribunal’s decision would have forever stood as a grave injustice. 


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