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2024 MRO & Tribunal

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2 hours ago, binman said:

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Besides, if you've ever played basketball or even watched elite basketball, you'd understand it is incredibly physical and tough. It is a complete myth that it is a non consct sport.

Ha - no myth.  The first time I played in a serious basketball team I crashed the pack and was sent off.  Never played again.

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    26 minutes ago, daisycutter said:

    but nrl is 90% contact. same with thugby ... no contact, no nrl, no thugby

    nrl has banned the shoulder charge but still get multiple concussion checks per game

    a bit off topic but what about striking the ball with your head in soccer. thousands of hits over some players careers

    The rugby codes will end up as pro touch football I reckon, I just can't see them lasting too much longer.

    A good question re soccer...my soccer mad mate tells me the header has been on dangerous ground for a while now. The ball is a lot lighter and waterproof now so there is not the damage that was done to many past players...however he says they still get tiny concussions each time they head the ball...so maybe that part of the game will have to go.

    Remember these games have been around for only a very short time in the scheme of things, a couple of hundred years give or take.

    Everything evolves...

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    26 minutes ago, Demonland said:

     

    Maybe the Carlton guy could also be cited for overreacting ...  well after impact

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    1 hour ago, daisycutter said:

    but nrl is 90% contact. same with thugby ... no contact, no nrl, no thugby

    nrl has banned the shoulder charge but still get multiple concussion checks per game

    a bit off topic but what about striking the ball with your head in soccer. thousands of hits over some players careers

    I may be wrong but I seem to have heard somewhere that heading the ball is not allowed in some junior soccer competitions - not sure how young though

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    if Hogan gets off it’s obviously fine to hit blokes in the face off the ball

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    35 minutes ago, monoccular said:

    I may be wrong but I seem to have heard somewhere that heading the ball is not allowed in some junior soccer competitions - not sure how young though

    yeah. at least under 12s and lower. only at training though

    seems over the top but maybe there’s evidence of concussion issues

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    Paaaark me so now its ok to whack a bloke in the face, off the ball and get of! Watch this spac! Kozzy stares a bloke down, doesn't get up due to packing himself, but Kozzy gets 10 weeks! AFL tribunal is a friggen disgrace🤮

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    It now seems that while you can't have "low" impact you can have "negligible" impact.

    Is that so?

    [censored], just when I didn't think the tribunal could outdo  Charlie's exoneration !

    It's a [censored] lottery. 

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    I love Jesse. I have a lot of admiration for his journey, and wish him nothing but success after all he’s had to overcome at such a young age.

    But a player should get a week for that.

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    Yep every day of the week, double for a leap year!

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    Should have been the other way around! And yet again the basket case lotto of the AfL tribunal. TOTAL JOKE

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    Extraordinary! So I am going for a mark but the opposition comes back toward me, somehow I now have to pull out, lest there be contact? This might be sort of palatable but the tribunal’s adjudication of Maynard last year makes this a freaking, abominable joke. 

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    1 minute ago, Earl Hood said:

    Extraordinary! So I am going for a mark but the opposition comes back toward me, somehow I now have to pull out, lest there be contact? This might be sort of palatable but the tribunal’s adjudication of Maynard last year makes this a freaking, abominable joke. 

    agree

    but they say this year Maynard will be suspended for that same action

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    Hogan punches him in the face and doesn’t get a week???

    can the MRO and the tribunal have a [censored] chat so we don’t have this circus every week??

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    so if he'd continued with marking attempt and smashed his head with his knees and showed no duty of care, he would have escaped suspension

    rightio

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    1 hour ago, daisycutter said:

    so if he'd continued with marking attempt and smashed his head with his knees and showed no duty of care, he would have escaped suspension

    rightio

    Exactly! If it's a "footy action", consequences be damned! God forbid one should genuinely brace for impact. 

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    3 hours ago, Earl Hood said:

    Extraordinary! So I am going for a mark but the opposition comes back toward me, somehow I now have to pull out, lest there be contact? This might be sort of palatable but the tribunal’s adjudication of Maynard last year makes this a freaking, abominable joke. 

    It’s all sickening how the media are now all protect the head no matter the situation. Where were they late last year? I can’t let this go - it still infuriates me to no end. 

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