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Elon Musk is a real life comic book hero. With a villains name...

How would have Lynch's jaw been in line with the shoulder of Viney if Lynch wasn't being tackled by Georgiou and Jack had the ball? The ball landing in his lap and then him being brought down by Georgiou allowed Viney's brace (or bump) to break his jaw.

Could we have? And I am glad that the appeal touched on what Jack's allowed to do near the ball as opposed to what he could have done near a player. The bounce of the ball is the reason a young man has a broken jaw.

I don't think we are quite out of the woods yet. It's a middle earth like struggle and we have had a few wins to start our journey. The curse will be lifted but with a statement even bigger than the last week. What will it be I wonder?

lol No, I don't think they will publish it. Maybe the Appeals Board...

Different rules for different players - that's life and footy.

1. Rough Conduct (High Bumps) The Player Rules provide that a player will be guilty of rough conduct where in the bumping of an opponent (whether reasonably or unreasonably) he causes forceful contact to be made with any part of his body to an opponent’s head or neck unless a. he player was contesting the ball and did not have a realistic alternative way to contest the ball; or b. the forceful contact to the head or neck was caused by circumstances outside the control of the player which could not reasonably be foreseen. This is from the rule book. He is allowed to contest the ball - he hit it. Lynch was tackled as he began his 'bump' (or 'brace' or whatever semantics we wish to use) and it brought his jaw into play and Jack could not have 'foreseen' a 192cm persons jaw to be in line with his shoulder on his 175cm frame. If the Tribunal applied the 'laws' as they stand - Jack would be playing these next two weeks. Don't blame the law. *put the above in the training thread for some stupid reason...

1. Rough Conduct (High Bumps) The Player Rules provide that a player will be guilty of rough conduct where in the bumping of an opponent (whether reasonably or unreasonably) he causes forceful contact to be made with any part of his body to an opponent’s head or neck unless a. he player was contesting the ball and did not have a realistic alternative way to contest the ball; or b. the forceful contact to the head or neck was caused by circumstances outside the control of the player which could not reasonably be foreseen. This is from the rule book. He is allowed to contest the ball - he hit it. Lynch was tackled as he began his 'bump' (or 'brace' or whatever semantics we wish to use) and it brought his jaw into play and Jack could not have 'foreseen' a 192cm persons jaw to be in line with his shoulder on his 175cm frame. If the Tribunal applied the 'laws' as they stand - Jack would be playing these next two weeks. Don't blame the law.

The result may not be terrible, but that first half was pretty terrible.

That is a blatant call to those below to reverse the decision.

His nickname is The Purple Headed Warrior! Couldn't be more appropriate.

That was a good bunch of tweets, and Mark Robinson's were spot on too...

Give it a rest. You are just looking for gawkers and knashed teeth. Do something better with your time. Oh, and 'he will learn?' Learn what exactly? If you said to him or Roos that 'he will learn' they would look at you like you just ate a live cockatoo.

That was my favourite moment too. Footy is fun when your mate puts you 16 points up with an outside of the boot torpedo. Grimes' effort was something I see elite players do.

Absolutely, these scenarios he is throwing up is hardly the proper way for a competition to interpret its rules.

Excuse me? He should take his eyes off the collision and expose his back and the back of his head? What is this nonsense?

Why couldn't lynch and Georgiou get out of the road?

I will add my two cents: Viney has very little momentum into the contest - he actually gets pushed back in the direction he came in, so it safe to make the judgement he tried to stop. Lynch never controls the footy so Viney can't tackle, and the ball itself is 5 feet in the air so there is no protection of the ball player with his head over the footy. Lynch is losing his feet at the time, probably due to Georgiou's pressure, and brings his jaw into play rather than his chest. Lastly, Viney touches the footy. The ball is in dispute and he braces for contact, Lynch doesn't. All these are mitigating circumstances that should see Viney play this Sat night. I hope it goes well.

I wouldn't think so. Bloody expensive ruse.

I don't know why he has regressed. He may be injured now so it might be moot, but the reason he was effective against Carlton is that he was moving into created space and meeting the football in the air. He didn't have a great player on him which helps, but since then I have seen him ball watch his way out of good spots, lead through good space and into bad space - usually near the boundary. And the worst thing is he was trying to body out after a lead and take marks out in his hands - waist height - while turning - degree of difficulty would be much higher than just getting your jukes out and trying to take it with pressure behind you. I don't see him push off his opponent often, even Jack Watts does this, and it is not intuitive to players who haven't played forward but should be for him. He has spent 5 years dealing with the best forwards in the game doing it to him. I am frustrated because I know he can do so much better. I hope he can recover for Sat Night.

He's been lost since the Carlton game. I watched him closely against GC and he was running around making some terrible leads and hitting all the areas you don't want to go.

Yeah, if we want to move away from comparisons - I like that he is neat, takes the game on and tries to not waste a possession. He's composed. He doesn't have great speed, but he does know where the footy will be. That's the toughest skill to learn for a mid.

Learning to play CHF is a slow burn. It really is tough if you haven't done it before and haven't had a chance to prepare for it. We should have groomed him but I guess we didn't see the need before Hogan went down and Dawes had his issues and Fitz hasn't come on... He needs to meet the footy and demand the space at CHF. He has all the ability to do the job.

I wanted to get away from the forward-midfielder comparison to a pure midfielder comparison. He finds the footy and links up well. Stanton does the same (from time to time), he is neat but not explosive. He is a good player Stanton. JKH can punch through this ceiling but he has already shown me that this is what he can get to on exposed form.

He's got to be able to stay on the park long enough to be something. When he was drafted I said 'see you in 6 years' to the groans of many... He has time but it is running out, he needs some luck and some form. I guess we will find out soon enough whether Roos and co. rate him.