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Luke Parker Strike in the VFL

samcantstandya
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4 weeks, might be 5 if it was in the AFL. Not as bad as Webster on Simpkin imo as Simpkin had kicked it and was open.

I'm not sure what the Essendon bloke was doing here, you might not expect to get knocked into next week but you’ve got to expect some contact surely? Seems like he didn’t even see Parker when he was running straight at him

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    15 hours ago, Fork 'em said:

    He was near stationary.
    Both feet planted.
    In this new world he might get a couple weeks cause the bloke was KO'd but the Karens calling for his head need to get a grip.
    Play on I say.

    Joking, yes?

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    May have played his last AFL game Parker.  4+ weeks then he'll have to work back into the swans best 23, again. 

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    19 minutes ago, Fromgotowoewodin said:

    4 weeks, might be 5 if it was in the AFL. Not as bad as Webster on Simpkin imo as Simpkin had kicked it and was open.

    I'm not sure what the Essendon bloke was doing here, you might not expect to get knocked into next week but you’ve got to expect some contact surely? Seems like he didn’t even see Parker when he was running straight at him

    The Essendon bloke should get a week for being at the wrong game.

    sorry, couldn’t help myself

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    19 minutes ago, Fromgotowoewodin said:

    4 weeks, might be 5 if it was in the AFL. Not as bad as Webster on Simpkin imo as Simpkin had kicked it and was open.

    I'm not sure what the Essendon bloke was doing here, you might not expect to get knocked into next week but you’ve got to expect some contact surely? Seems like he didn’t even see Parker when he was running straight at him

    Mate, the ball is 15m away, he is trying to get to the contest and should safely assume that every other player is doing the same. 

    This is what the advocates of this new world what to see changed - do players have a duty of care to each other or not?

     

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    Surely gets 6 weeks minimum.  Minimum. High. Severe. Intent.  Behind the play.  Grading is 

    INTENTIONAL 

    SEVERE IMPACT

    HIGH CONTACT

    Goes to the tribunal 

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    15 hours ago, Fork 'em said:

    He was near stationary.
    Both feet planted.
    In this new world he might get a couple weeks cause the bloke was KO'd but the Karens calling for his head need to get a grip.
    Play on I say.

    You say ‘play on’…

    Sometimes the dim require things to be personalised for things to make sense; your son/brother/friend is playing footy and someone 15m off the ball makes a beeline for someone you give a s$&@ about and lifts their shoulder into the jaw and breaks it.

    You’re umpiring, you see it clearly, and you say ‘play on.’

    Hmmm. Ok, sure…

    Schitts Creek Yes GIF by CBC

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    8 minutes ago, rpfc said:

    Mate, the ball is 15m away, he is trying to get to the contest and should safely assume that every other player is doing the same. 

    This is what the advocates of this new world what to see changed - do players have a duty of care to each other or not?

     

    He should probably assume the bloke coming straight at him is going to bump him. Maybe he can also think “he shouldn’t really bump me here” but he’s gonna get bumped. 

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    They will come down extremely hard on this with 8 weeks.

    Realistically probably a 5 or 6 though.

    But the optics are particularly bad plus being off the play and being hospitalized won't help.

    Dog act though. 

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    Not sure how some can argue anything less than 6. I’d be going season, he fully lined him up. 

    Edited by Dee Zephyr

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    If Webster got 7 then this can't be any less. Worse in my opinion.

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    I coached the young fellow in junior footy and cricket.  He's a terrific kid.  Played for Gippsland Power and represented Vic Country in the National Champs.  I messaged his mum yesterday to see how he was.  He's seeing the specialist Monday to work out the damage but it'll be sometime before he hits the field again. They are very much a "what happens on the field stays on the field" family.  Poor form from a very experienced (and very good) AFL player.  If that isn't worth 7-8 weeks I don't know what is.

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    51 minutes ago, Fromgotowoewodin said:

    He should probably assume the bloke coming straight at him is going to bump him. Maybe he can also think “he shouldn’t really bump me here” but he’s gonna get bumped. 

    Maybe he thought he was going to the effing bench?

    Either we have rules against the nonsense off the ball or we don’t, but just because you may play footy to snipe blokes when you might get away with it - doesn’t mean the rest of us should put up with it.

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    1 hour ago, Fromgotowoewodin said:

    He should probably assume the bloke coming straight at him is going to bump him. Maybe he can also think “he shouldn’t really bump me here” but he’s gonna get bumped. 

    But at the last moment that psychopath Parker drives upward to change his point of impact from torso to head. Not to mention the very sudden beeline he makes to the player, turning on a trajectory away from the ball. It is simply off the ball thuggery and has no place in a game that wants to survive in this millennium. 

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    15 minutes ago, rpfc said:

    just because you may play footy to snipe blokes when you might get away with it - doesn’t mean the rest of us should put up with it.

     😂  I’m not Luke Parker by the way, you seem confused about my role in this. I didn’t bump anyone so what you put up with or don’t doesn’t really concern me. 

    I said I thought Parker will get 4 or 5, he’s chosen to bump, got the guy in the head with obviously a fair bit of force so he’s going for an extended break. 

    My separate point was that while players have a duty of care to each other I think players also need to have a duty of care to themselves - if you run around a football field expecting that everyone will get out of your way that’s not going to go all that well. Not excusing Parker, it’s just a reality. 

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    10 weeks minimum

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    1 hour ago, adonski said:

    We should take Parker for a year

    Would be a handy replacement for Brayshaw...can play mid, forward and back...

    ...but maybe this is for another thread.

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    5 hours ago, Dee Zephyr said:

    Not sure how some can argue anything less than 6. I’d be going season, he fully lined him up. 

    Parker lined him up from >20m with no intention to get the ball.

    The outcome of his action deserves 6 weeks

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    One question about the two jurisdictions. 
    IF he were to get 6 weeks would that be for 6 VFL Swans matches - given their recurring bloody byes that could well be 8 AFL matches?

    When Wojinski (?spelling) broke JV7’s jaw in VFL he and Geelong seemed to weasel one week or more of his suspension due to the AFL team having a bye or maybe vice versa. 

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