In Harmes Way

I'm told it's actually a rash that you can get a cream for....

I reckon he's planting an "I told you so" peg in the sand. I'm sure Trac over the course of 7 years will have a dip in form, at which point he can come out and say "See....."

I'm sure there's a Sydney Paddy McCartin and Kayo = KO joke in there somewhere....

You can't have watched too many games last year that closely. They had their logo on the ball.

With respect to an AFL appeal of the decision, according to the rules, the AFL can only appeal per below: AN APPEAL OF A DECISION OF THE TRIBUNAL A Player or the AFL General Counsel may appeal the decision of the Tribunal to the Appeal Board on one or more of the following grounds: » An error of law has occurred; » The decision of the Tribunal is so unreasonable that no Tribunal acting reasonably could have come to that decision having regard to the evidence before it; » The classification of the offence by the Tribunal was manifestly excessive or inadequate; or » The sanction imposed by the Tribunal was manifestly excessive or inadequate. Given the hearing was around whether the act was careless (as opposed to the impact), then any errors of law would have been addressed in the original hearing. And given the classification/sanctions were not manifestly inadequate (the grading was only careless to begin with), then the only grounds the AFL could appeal under is that no other Tribunal would come to the same conclusion. And given the Tribunal explained the grounds for their decision, it's reasonable to foresee another Tribunal reaching the same conclusion. Nothing to see here. Move on.

Calling @no plan b it seems you’re wrong. It’s Mitch Brown

Where the hell is @Wiseblood??? He's been the voice of reason and positivity around here for years when you'd have to grasp at straws -> should be at the front of the queue in enjoying all this.....

I'd send them a nice blue cheese next to one with a red rind.

If you look at Richo's summary of the two's on the MFC website, Sparrow was nominated BOG and Harmes first game back from an injury and not too bad.....therefore it's Sparrow in front of Harmes for Baker. I reckon they'll go Petty for Tomlinson, Sparrow for Baker. Jones got a game last week so he's back to the medical sub.

Nobody has raised the obvious outcome from this decision being that Frittata is still eligible for the Brownlow!

Let’s have a poll!

7 news reporting a 7 year deal guesstimating at $900K per year is expected “imminently” Mind you, it is Tom Browne

Poor Weid must be gutted

7 news reporting an agreement is expected imminently, thought to be 7 years at $900K per season

In the AFL's official Tribunal handbook for 2021 they have a series of examples of every offence and grading: https://resources.afl.com.au/afl/document/2021/03/22/221593f5-9b5b-46c7-b038-b032283fcd41/2021-AFL-Tribunal-Guidelines.pdf The best two examples under Striking on page 14 that can be referenced in Fritta’s defence: Example 5: Josh Caddy on David McKay R2, 2018 (Careless, medium impact, high contact) Mackay was assessed for concussion and failed that test, so therefore worse than Powell who wasn’t even assessed for concussion. Example 11: Swallow on Westoff R1, 2020 (Intentional, Low impact, High contact) https://www.afl.com.au/news/389979/suns-skipper-cops-ban-four-players-hit-with-fines Intentional action and only graded Low Impact. Similar incident (in reverse) but worse than Fritta’s. Swallow didn’t have ball, went past ball and collected Westhoff with similar action to Fritta (albeit Fritta has added difference of player coming at him low). Could be referenced as Westhoff played out the game unhindered. Season was then suspended, so can’t look at whether he got up for R2. Given the action is deemed careless rather than intentional, I think it would be in line with past rulings that the potential for further injury is not assessed and should be deemed Low Impact per the two applicable examples here.

I’m happy the club is taking this further. Given I presume the basis of the appeal is medium vs low impact, then I think the Cunnington vs Adelaide appeal should also be referenced where it was regraded to low. It’s probably a better example than the Dangerfield case as it’s this year.

At least everyone's agreeing he should be compared to some of the greats of our game. Kid's a gun. Congrats on the (second) nomination Luke!

I guess it's the hope that returning to 100% capacity will also mean not having to book your seats through Ticketek.

The MFCSS is strong this week. I'm hoping for a game like 2010 where we played out of our skins, but fear we'll have a game like 2018 where we were shooting for finals and tripped over.

Below is the footage of the Dangerfield contact with vlaustin in the grand final last year for comparison MRO finding that the contact was "inadvertent" - Christian quoted "The ball is loose. Vlastuin and Dangerfield approach the ball from opposing directions. Dangerfield punches the ball and in the process makes high contact to Vlastuin. It was the view of the MRO that Dangerfield’s actions were not unreasonable in the circumstances. No further action was taken."

Maybe he meant we were off by 98% and there was only 2% to write home about?

Unfortunately I reckon there’s 16 teams that saw we didnt belt the bottom team off the park (far from it) and will believe we’re gettable. I can’t see too many easy games in the near future on this basis. At least we are a strong finishing team. Our 4th quarters have been terrific.

Has to be low impact and a fine at worst, but what would I know. Powell played out the game without even the need for a concussion test. Its a bit of a farce frankly that the AFL have four levels of grading for impact without definition of what these are.

How does that differ to Tom Hawkins collecting Maysie?

And my son didn't give me nearly enough praise for this pearler from me when the commentator said "Kossie is playing his own brand of football out there today" I turned to him and said "he's playing Kossie Rules Football" I'm still pretty proud of myself for that one....