DistrACTION Jackson
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Yep I was 100% spot on here. Another weekend of inconsistency given the Butters/Crouch incidents over the weekend and also remembering Hunter's from last year. Michael Christian just has to go. Butters act was 10 times more dangerous than Hunter from last year and yet he got nothing and Hunter got a week.
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I think we need to go for one of Macrae or McLuggage if we really want to go to the next level. Both are very smart midfielders, which is probably one thing we are lacking (no disrespect to Vines, Trac and Oliver). Those guys are more explosive players and one of those two would complement them nicely.
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Think he's a troll spouting garbage. Would love the mods to kick people like this off....
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Is it time to push for the brother/brother rule?
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I believe he also had both hips operated on around the time he was drafted and that resulted in him losing a bit of speed.
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Kolt is also more a like for like replacement for Kozzy, where Woey isn't
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I think he does. He is actually quite similar in size to what Rozee was in his first season.
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This is the major issue and the reason so many fans are frustrated, myself included. There is no consistency to the MRO or the tribunal findings and also the way the media and the AFL questioning is from case to case. 7 months ago Maynard performed one of the more dangerous acts I've seen on a footy field, which resulted in a player retiring and gets nothing. Pretty sure there were still rules around showing a duty of care at that time, so not sure why it wasn't applied in that case. We now find ourselves where an incidental contact, while dumb from Kozzy it wasn't a dirty act and was made with very little force gets a 1 week suspension. In the same weekend Fogarty runs straight at Fyfe and launches himself at him with a clenched fist, misses the ball by a mile and punches him in the throat. This is assessed the same as a glancing blow from Kozzy. Then last week Rivers tackles Rozee, who throws himself to the ground (arms free) and the MRO issue a fine. The next weekend Toby Greene dumps Mac Andrew into the turf and it's nothing to see because - his arm was free. WTF is wrong with this competition and their adjudication. The MRO needs to be a panel of people, not one bloke who has shown himself to be inept. I would also be comfortable if the AFL said, he will have a 3 man panel deciding each incident and there's no tribunal option, their decision is final. It's the AFL's competition they can suspend anyone they want, why does there have to be tribunal involved if they have a panel who can discuss and make decisions.
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If you just looked at that photo and nothing else you would think it's worth 3 weeks, but a photo doesn't tell the whole story and just captures a split second. If you watch the video in real time he goes to smother the ball and then clips him very lightly, which you can't tell from a photo. The media have been running with that photo because it suits their narrative.
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They will have to argue low impact (which it was), but also that the action did not have the potential to cause serious injury, which I think you can definitely do as Kozzie didn't have much momentum and realistically could've hit him even harder if he wanted. Not defending what Kozzy did, but those are the facts whether you like the way he plays or not. It will then be up to the tribunal to decide if they agree or not. Hopefully the lawyer we get does as good a job as Maynard's.....
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I reckon they are going conservative. Pretty sure Turner is 2-3 weeks ahead of their original timeline.
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I'm comfortable with Kozzy having a week suspension if the AFL decide they want to be ultra strict on head high contact, but this idea that the impact was 'medium' is ridiculous. It was low impact. I don't understand why they didn't change the gradings for head contact to: low impact - 1 week / medium impact - 2 weeks / high impact - 3 weeks and then severe straight to the tribunal for 4+. This 'potential to cause injury' wording just confuses everyone and muddies the waters. Fogarty should have got two weeks for that hit which was essentially the equivalent to Peter Wright except Cunningham got knocked out and Fyfe didn't. This is probably a bit to common sense though for the AFL to implement.
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