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The Melksham incident

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1 hour ago, biggestred said:

Genuinely staggered it even is in the realm of being thought about as a suspension.

That’s because the umpire paid a free it has blown up wrongly.

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    47 minutes ago, deanox said:

    I thought this was pretty bad as he didn't seem have eyes for the ball and was watching Viney, and then got him with a round arm fist.

    It will either be no suspension or 2 weeks. The act was careless, it was high contact, and while the actual impact was low the potential for injury could upgrade to medium. My take is 2 weeks given it was a swinging arm action which could have easily resulted in a serious injury.

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    28 minutes ago, Nasher said:

    I enjoyed Goodwin’s carefully selected words: “you have to look at how Petty got in to that contest”.

    Loved this comment from Goody. He always plays a straight bat re incidents on field but dropping this one in makes it clear the club will expect the MRO to look at it closely.

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    14 minutes ago, Roger Mellie said:

    https://www.afl.com.au/news/1314062/match-review-melbourne-demons-forward-jake-melksham-cleared-after-jeremy-mcgovern-incident-young-eagle-bo-allan-cops-a-ban

    If someone has twitter can they please send this to that [censored] Schofield and the West Australian, it annoys me that after all of that there is actually no mention of the fact that Ginbey was the one that caused the carnage. His actions directly resulted in Petty and McGovern being subbed out with concussion and will both miss the following week. But nah let's focus on the player who has eyes for the ball and takes the mark.

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    I'm glad Melksham got off, of course, and agree that he deserved to, but I still don't like the deliberate push-in-the-back tactics we see so much.

    To me, it seems a cowardly way of taking an opponent out of the game instead of competing fairly for the ball.

    Maybe a 50 penalty for blatant instances of the offence would get it out of the game pretty quickly.

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    23 minutes ago, Dee-tonator said:

    I'm glad Melksham got off, of course, and agree that he deserved to, but I still don't like the deliberate push-in-the-back tactics we see so much.

    To me, it seems a cowardly way of taking an opponent out of the game instead of competing fairly for the ball.

    Maybe a 50 penalty for blatant instances of the offence would get it out of the game pretty quickly.

    I'm not against what they're trying to stamp out with that, there are players who have form with this sort of thing, and tunnelling is the other one that they have taken way too long to properly address. For me earlier in the season Fritta should've been rubbed out for a game for tunnelling (can't remember who it was), it's dangerous and like these pushes into a contest the victim is completely at the mercy of gravity and luck.

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    NID 🙄

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    Wasn't even a free kick, robbed of a mark and goal.

    When you are that shyzenhausen you will want to get players suspended to make yourself feel better.

    Bunch of friggen losers over there in the west.

    Edited by YesitwasaWin4theAges

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    1 hour ago, Roger Mellie said:

    https://www.afl.com.au/news/1314062/match-review-melbourne-demons-forward-jake-melksham-cleared-after-jeremy-mcgovern-incident-young-eagle-bo-allan-cops-a-ban

    The anonymous 'Staff Writer's' description of the incident is nothing like what the MRO said and quoted in said article. There clearly think he should have been suspended!

    Would love to know who the AFL writers are hiding behind the Staff Wrtiers label. Probably, Purple !!!

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    3 hours ago, GS_1905 said:

    Has Christians threatened to resign yet?

    He is demanding witness protection, a new name and a farm in tassie

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    I haven’t seen the Petty incident

    anyone have a link?

    It would take a lot to knock that melon off it’s perch

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    8 minutes ago, DubDee said:

    I haven’t seen the Petty incident

    anyone have a link?

    It would take a lot to knock that melon off it’s perch

    I thought it happened with the Melksham McGovern incident.

    If it was then, it didn’t look like Petty clashed heads with McGovern. Looked like McGovern’s scone hit Petty’s back

    Edited by Dee Zephyr

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    1 hour ago, Dee-tonator said:

    I'm glad Melksham got off, of course, and agree that he deserved to, but I still don't like the deliberate push-in-the-back tactics we see so much.

    To me, it seems a cowardly way of taking an opponent out of the game instead of competing fairly for the ball.

    Maybe a 50 penalty for blatant instances of the offence would get it out of the game pretty quickly.

    Had Gibbon not pushed Petty into the contest (and am I right in saying he has form here) neither player would have been concussed.

    Of course seeing that would be way, way beyond Michael Christian’s intellectual capacity.

    30 minutes ago, DubDee said:

    I haven’t seen the Petty incident

    anyone have a link?

    It would take a lot to knock that melon off it’s perch

    DubDee - it was the same incident, I believe.

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    Petty did cop one high early, so it's possible the second impact set him over.

    I read a study (a few years old now and from the NFL) where cumulative knocks during the same match/training session resulted in the individual impact threshold for concussions ll decreasing (basically after multiple knocks, it only took a small knock to concuss).

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    5 hours ago, deegirl said:

    What about the player who hit Viney, do we think he’ll b suspended?

    Don’t think there was any malice in it, just a very clumsy spoiling attempt. But I’m assuming because Viney got up they won’t pay much attention to it

    Allan should get 2 weeks … in his debut game.

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    37 minutes ago, spirit of norm smith said:

    Allan should get 2 weeks … in his debut game.

    He got one which I think was right. It was clumsy, and it looks bad because he takes his eyes off the ball but I do take it more as young player trying to impact a contest but lacking AFL speed awareness. The fact that Viney's scone is tougher than a brick probably saved him from more weeks, practically any other player is probably getting subbed for HIA.

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    17 hours ago, Redleg said:

    Also according to every non ex Eagles player in the footy media.

    Btw, Petty was pushed into the contest by Ginbey possibly causing both concussions.

    Only Goody has commented on that.

    Good to see Goodwin finally comment in the media about an onfield incident

    MELBOURNE coach Simon Goodwin says forward Jake Melksham was contesting the ball and executing a football act when he nudged West Coast star Jeremy McGovern into a contest that ended with two players suffering concussion.

    McGovern and Demons forward Harrison Petty were both sidelined after half-time and placed in concussion protocols as a result of the incident in the second quarter, which will likely draw Match Review scrutiny.

    And he rightly shines the light on Gibney that caused Petty's concussion.

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