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I am getting more bullish on Luker with each Casey game.

But I think we did and he wasn’t believed. Not sure if same man who did Maynard case where of course he was believed.

Worst garbage of a decision you could ever see. How can a player know there will be a collision, if the other player is coming from his side in the last .056 of a second and is expected to calculate who will reach the ball first. Just garbage and actually shameful, when they said the opposite in the Maynard case. So May in their decision, is expected as they said, to NOT CONTEST THE BALL.

At least we can’t blame Laura Kane this is on Greg Swann.

If there is anyone in the footy world that doesn't think the Tribunal are absolute raving idi-ts, here is another brilliant finding of theirs tonight. "The tribunal said he should have been thinking about what would happen if he didn’t get there first." Yes of course, in the .056 of a second everyone agreed, is all he had to avoid a "possible collision," with someone coming from his side.

I want a few players to pull up and not go for the ball in coming matches. Then I would love to see the reaction of the footy world.

"we find that he had sufficient time to position his body so that he was no longer attempting to gather the ball." This is what these idi-ts said.

I just read the reasons given by the Tribunal and to me they are a pile of fanciful BS.

I think the players Association needs to come out and say our players now can’t play the game, as any collision and injury is a suspension, unless you are a Collingwood player of course.

We know what this is really about. The AFL is being sued for $1billion by former players. They are trying to show they are doing everything to stop concussion and in the process destroying the game. Appeal and win.

No problem. The experts in the media got it wrong. The ex players got it wrong. The current players got it wrong. The Coaches got it wrong. No one knows what the f is going on in the game. And it was conceded by the AFL that he didn’t bump.

Here is an interesting fact. The tribunal has run 3 hours, to decide if a bloke did the wrong thing in a split second. The player has a split second to do something and yet it takes 3 hours of evidence watching the incident from a hundred angles, multiple times and at multiple speeds and then hours of deliberation to decide that he should or shouldn’t have done what he did in a split second. This is a f’n joke. They have turned the game into a joke.

There was an obvious 10th ground. May is not running at Evans, he running to the ball and it is only when Evan’s comes from the side in the last split second, that there could be any knowledge or chance of a collision. For good measure here is another. If May was concussed and Evan’s wasn’t in this collision, would Evans be up before the Tribunal, as he would have done exactly what May is being accused of.

The quiet Jim Durnan was lethal and how could you leave out Ray Biffin and Cameron Clayton.

Add the Camporeale twins and Dean's son to come and a nice batch of F'S's for Carlton.

Yes, May was concussed and Dees wanted him to have another day to recover, before giving evidence in a stressful environment.

Sounds like he is pretty grounded boy.

Would definitely have a go at him as he adds outside run, which we need badly.

Then if I was the Coach and felt that he deserved a game now, I would say that he is getting a game, on his current form, with us knowing that he has was sick over summer, has never had a proper AFL pre season and that he is getting a taste only and that we know he will be better in the future, after an uninterrupted pre season. That should kill the fan expectation. PS: I would tell him the same privately and that we wanted him to end the season as an AFL player, who could now go on and have an AFL career.

I agree unless he is given a game with no expectation.

Finn Maginnes who suffered a lacerated kidney from a knock might be very interested in that ruling. Darcy is now a recidivist in injuring players with his knees and yet escapes punishment every time. Jack Reiwoldt, Garry Lyon and even Nathan Buckley said he should have been suspended.

Darcy Moore and Brayden Maynard not cited by ex Pies premiership MRO. Nothing to see here. Dropping the knees into a guys back just fine. Pushing a guy into the dugout just fine.

I think that fractured eye socket was caused by a Tom Hawkins elbow to the face, which of course was deemed accidental. May said he lost vision in the eye for a while. Has Moore been cited for the knees into the back of Treacy? Has Maynard been cited for pushing Murphy Reid into the dugout?

With 5 weeks to go in the season, it is concerning, that a player is still not signing, after having an Offer from the club since last year and obviously several negotiations since. Hopefully we get some good news soon.

Agree. Pearce charged at the player from a distance and while attempting to correct at the last moment, he knocked the player out and into the air, spinning around. It was a far more violent incident and outcome, but as some have said it is May, not Darcy Moore. Ed Richards raised his forearm and hit a player in the head, knocking him out, but got off because he had the footy. One thing that may help him, is that nearly all of the ex players are saying he actually did nothing wrong. He doesn't brace, turn his shoulder and is running straight at the ball. Contact is made to the top of May's shoulder, not his bicep. Evans is also not in front of him, but coming from the side and Evans also owed May a duty of care too and could have protected himself by deviating, or putting an arm up, as Barrett said on the Sunday Footy show. It will be interesting, but as I said in another post, May could need a couple of weeks off anyway, given his concussion history, so we might be talking about one extra game if he gets three, as the AFL seems to be seeking.