You know what? 400 games and no charge and I'm actually ok with 1 get out of jail free card.

But if he does similar this week and onwards I expect him to cop it and not claim a clean record.

And Sidebottom doesn’t even get cited for his elbow, even though Bailey from lions got a week for his. So inconsistent and typical

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6 minutes ago, Demonland said:

Of course he is.

He was also just bracing his arm when he palm struck Neale directly in the abdomen. Good bloke though and totallllllyyyy different from a close fisted strike.

9 minutes ago, biggestred said:

You know what? 400 games and no charge and I'm actually ok with 1 get out of jail free card.

But if he does similar this week and onwards I expect him to cop it and not claim a clean record.

Lauchie Neale 2024.

14 minutes ago, #11-TonyAnderson said:

And Sidebottom doesn’t even get cited for his elbow, even though Bailey from lions got a week for his. So inconsistent and typical

So Collingwood

I guess Pendles didn’t have to anticipate that contact could be possible and he should have acted differently unlike May last year.

Odd.

1 minute ago, BoBo said:

I guess Pendles didn’t have to anticipate that contact could be possible and he should have acted differently unlike May last year.

Odd.

@BoBo I think it's very black and white (see what I did there)

21 minutes ago, #11-TonyAnderson said:

And Sidebottom doesn’t even get cited for his elbow, even though Bailey from lions got a week for his. So inconsistent and typical

Sidebottom was an arm thrown back to the stomach, while Bailey elbowed a guy lying on the ground in the head.

No inconsistency.

6 minutes ago, Brownie said:

@BoBo I think it's very black and white (see what I did there)

Username brownie making a literal black and white joke is very pleasing to me.

Gleeson is how shall I say it …. inconsistent when it comes to Collingwood vs everyone (Maynard )

Kozzie would have been sent to Siberia for that

I’m ok with Pendlebury getting off

I have serious reservations about gleesons independence

Good news fellow Demonlanders…

With the new rules applied, no Melbourne footballers will ever be suspended again!!!!

Since retirements and other troublemakers leaving our club, under King, we are a collective group of exemplary young men!

13 minutes ago, Superunknown said:

Gleeson is how shall I say it …. inconsistent when it comes to Collingwood vs everyone (Maynard )

Kozzie would have been sent to Siberia for that

I’m ok with Pendlebury getting off

I have serious reservations about gleesons independence

He should have been removed after the May decision last year. That was an absolute farce and like I probably obnoxiously went on and on about at the time, setting up metrics of what a ‘’’‘reasonable’’’’ player ‘should’ and ‘could’ do to determine guilt based on literally, which way a ball would bounce, resulting in a 3 match ban, means you could justify or disqualify anything.

3 minutes ago, BoBo said:

He should have been removed after the May decision last year. That was an absolute farce and like I probably obnoxiously went on and on about at the time, setting up metrics of what a ‘’’‘reasonable’’’’ player ‘should’ and ‘could’ do to determine guilt based on literally, which way a ball would bounce, resulting in a 3 match ban, means you could justify or disqualify anything.

I was trying to think of the other absolute howler and that was it

Thanks

Our prez should be winding up the jackals at HQ

27 minutes ago, Superunknown said:

I was trying to think of the other absolute howler and that was it

Thanks

Our prez should be winding up the jackals at HQ

If May was playing for Collingwood, they would have burned down AFL HQ. I have zero doubt about it.

Different clubs/players - Different rules!!

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Jeff Gleeson, the current Chair of the AFL Tribunal, is a 35-year member and coterie member of the Collingwood Magpies Football Club. That’s true.

He is BIASED.

The tribunal is a JOKE. 🤬

Maynard incident. Free to play

May incident. Suspension

Pendlebury. Free to play

It was off the ball, careless bump, high contact, medium impact. The ball was well away when he made contact. That deserved suspension, at least 1-2 weeks.

As we know with something like Kozzy bump on Moore, it’s 3 weeks instantly!!!

38 minutes ago, spirit of norm smith said:

Jeff Gleeson, the current Chair of the AFL Tribunal, is a 35-year member and coterie member of the Collingwood Magpies Football Club. That’s true.

He is BIASED.

The tribunal is a JOKE. 🤬

Maynard incident. Free to play

May incident. Suspension

Pendlebury. Free to play

It was off the ball, careless bump, high contact, medium impact. The ball was well away when he made contact. That deserved suspension, at least 1-2 weeks.

As we know with something like Kozzy bump on Moore, it’s 3 weeks instantly!!!

technically maynard WAS found guilty, but got off on appeal, no?

pendlebury WAS found guilty with the suspension downgraded to a fine due to exeptional circumstances, not least of all his exemplary record considering the affected player was not concussed and played on

BUT correlation /= causation

gleeson IS biased

the tribunal IS a joke

@whatwhat say what context was

The Tribunal found that May didn't intend to bump, but Gleeson said his actions were "unreasonable". The AFL Tribunal imposed a three-match ban.

Unreasonable ? By whose standards

Melbourne appealed the decision, arguing May was solely focused on winning the ball, but the appeal failed, and the three-match ban was upheld.

Pendlebury had no intention to play the ball. His intent was to physically bump the Crows player. He got it wrong. He made clear contact with the head (remember the AFL once said that the head was sacrosanct!!). Yet Pendles gets cleared of any suspension and gets a fine.

No rational person could ever equate the decisions the Tribunal makes, except to conclude there is bias and that explains the decisions being made. @Demonland

3 hours ago, biggestred said:

You know what? 400 games and no charge and I'm actually ok with 1 get out of jail free card.

But if he does similar this week and onwards I expect him to cop it and not claim a clean record.

Totally agree. He's cashed in his "good guy" chips, if it happens again he can have a week off.

39 minutes ago, Pates said:

Totally agree. He's cashed in his "good guy" chips, if it happens again he can have a week off.

It should be extra time off, kind of like q suspended sentence.

I'm not OK with him getting off, which by the way he didn't. It was just downgraded.

There has been plenty of times when this bloke has belly punched,soft elbowed and arm out of controlled his way through games.

9 hours ago, Pates said:

Totally agree. He's cashed in his "good guy" chips, if it happens again he can have a week off.

9 hours ago, Pates said:

Totally agree. He's cashed in his "good guy" chips, if it happens again he can have a week off.

But you do know that what a pies player gets a week off for our players would get 2 or 3. That's how this corruption works.

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12 hours ago, Superunknown said:

Gleeson is how shall I say it …. inconsistent when it comes to Collingwood vs everyone (Maynard )

Kozzie would have been sent to Siberia for that

I’m ok with Pendlebury getting off

I have serious reservations about gleesons independence

Why do you think that?

Is it because he is an admitted Pies fan and has been all his life and statistics show that he and former Pies premiership player Michael Christian, the MRO officer, have presided over a period, where the Pies have been the least penalised club in the AFL?

7 hours ago, Willmoy1947 said:

I'm not OK with him getting off, which by the way he didn't. It was just downgraded.

There has been plenty of times when this bloke has belly punched,soft elbowed and arm out of controlled his way through games.

He was always getting off and that is ok, but we shouldn’t be lied to that he has an exemplary record, when over the last 5 years he has 3 prior offences including gut punching Neale.

Charlie Cameron who also got off on the good guy defence of an exemplary record, had 5 recent prior offences.

The MRO and Tribunal are a joke.

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