SA Footy

There were 2 players reported from Round 1 last weekend and both were captains of their respective clubs...

Glenelg Skipper Ty Allen and Port's leader James Mieklejohn have both had their cases thrown out and will be free to play this weekend...

http://www.sanfl.com.au/news/sanfl_news/1975/

Zac Milbank wrote:Glenelg captain Ty Allen was reported for striking South Adelaide’s John McDonald. The SANFL Review Panel withdrew the report – it deemed Allen was attempting to tackle and accidental contact was made to McDonald with his inner arm.

Port Adelaide captain James Meiklejohn was reported for making forceful front-on contact with Norwood’s Darren Pfeiffer. The SANFL Review Panel withdrew the report – it deemed contact was made to Pfeiffer’s shoulder while Meiklejohn stood his ground.

From the vision I saw, I don't think Mieklejohn's should have even made it to the tribunal, looked an accidental collision to me.

Those 2 umpires responsible should be reported for bringing the umpiring fraternity into disrepute ... muppets

JK wrote:From the vision I saw, I don't think Mieklejohn's should have even made it to the tribunal, looked an accidental collision to me.

Seeing both reports live, they looked worse than what they actually were. Looking at the vision, you can see they weren't that bad...

Both decisions the right ones, IMO...

Ty Allen's report was a joke. No one from South even looked sideways as everyone knew it was accidental Football contact with a player throwing his arm out to hit the ball/tackle (have not watched the vision) and made accidental contact with his arm. No surprise at all to see it throwen out.

The report was in the same soft nature as the game was umpired. We won the game and I found the frees paid very frustrating, however will give the umpires credit for being consistantly soft for the whole game.

The mieklejohn report was a really poor one, you could tell live that it was going to be thrown out

pafc1870 wrote:The mieklejohn report was a really poor one, you could tell live that it was going to be thrown out

Why bother wasting time with crap like that.
Surely the umps could get together after the match and decide not to take it further instead of wasting everyones time

North's Michael Clinch handed a 2 week ban...

Assume it is for the hit on Crane?

http://www.sanfl.com.au/league/reports/ ... _reports_/

Big Phil wrote:North's Michael Clinch handed a 2 week ban...

Assume it is for the hit on Crane?

http://www.sanfl.com.au/league/reports/ ... _reports_/

if so its a joke! they should just show the Lindsey Thomas incident from the AFL last week and walk out the room as its playing!

How did Rolfe not get booked??

Just had it confirmed the Clinch suspension was NOT for the contact made with Luke Crane...

It was from a separate incident involving former North listed ruckman Nick Pearce...

All will be revealed tomorrow on the SANFL site with 'Zac's Footy Fix'...

Big Phil wrote:Just had it confirmed the Clinch suspension was NOT for the contact made with Luke Crane...

It was from a separate incident involving former North listed ruckman Nick Pearce...

All will be revealed tomorrow on the SANFL site with 'Zac's Footy Fix'...

You can see from the vision on the Recovery session that the Crane incident was an accidental clash of heads where Crane turned into Clinch who was waiting to tackle him. Both players received cut heads from the incident. The Pearce incident was on the outer side just before then. It was too far away from me to see what happened but Pearce certainly came off with very "rubbery" legs.

robranisgod wrote:

Big Phil wrote:Just had it confirmed the Clinch suspension was NOT for the contact made with Luke Crane...

It was from a separate incident involving former North listed ruckman Nick Pearce...

All will be revealed tomorrow on the SANFL site with 'Zac's Footy Fix'...

You can see from the vision on the Recovery session that the Crane incident was an accidental clash of heads where Crane turned into Clinch who was waiting to tackle him. Both players received cut heads from the incident. The Pearce incident was on the outer side just before then. It was too far away from me to see what happened but Pearce certainly came off with very "rubbery" legs.

North Adelaide’s Michael Clinch has accepted a two-match ban offered to him by the SANFL’s Incident Review Panel for rough conduct on Sturt’s Nick Pearce at Prospect Oval on Saturday.

Aaron Fielke and Matt Fuller free to play on ANZAC Day...

From the SANFL site...

http://www.sanfl.com.au/news/sanfl_news/2001/

It really is stunning that Fuller was let of for his hit. How the SANFL could deem the contact to be insufficient to warrant a reportable offence is beyond me. What more did they want? It was a deliberate strike off the ball. Fuller made no attempt to disguise it. The hit deserved at least one week. I'm not for sanitizing the game but a deliberate strike with the fist off the ball has got to earn a week.

RB wrote:It really is stunning that Fuller was let of for his hit. How the SANFL could deem the contact to be insufficient to warrant a reportable offence is beyond me. What more did they want? It was a deliberate strike off the ball. Fuller made no attempt to disguise it. The hit deserved at least one week. I'm not for sanitizing the game but a deliberate strike with the fist off the ball has got to earn a week.

First year of watching football? Ever play it? Happened right in front of us and I was speaking with a media personality at the time and we both said "free kick, 25m penalty at most". There was absolutely nothing in it as evidenced by the lack of remonstration. A spoil that was marginally late.

JK wrote:

RB wrote:It really is stunning that Fuller was let of for his hit. How the SANFL could deem the contact to be insufficient to warrant a reportable offence is beyond me. What more did they want? It was a deliberate strike off the ball. Fuller made no attempt to disguise it. The hit deserved at least one week. I'm not for sanitizing the game but a deliberate strike with the fist off the ball has got to earn a week.

First year of watching football? Ever play it? Happened right in front of us and I was speaking with a media personality at the time and we both said "free kick, 25m penalty at most". There was absolutely nothing in it as evidenced by the lack of remonstration. A spoil that was marginally late.

No, yes.

It was very, very late to me. He was always going for him, probably out of frustration. No spoil can result in a player being floored so quickly.

RB wrote:He was always going for him, probably out of frustration. No spoil can result in a player being floored so quickly.

Bollocks, as if you can determine that. If I was the Eagles bloke I would have hit the deck and milked it for all I could get too, which I would imagine is exactly what happened. As I said, there was no remonstrating, Fuller just got there late. There was nothing to suggest intent and in fact if there had been, I'm sure the Eagles boy would have been in a much worse way given how vulnerable he was at the time.

The fact that the contact was from the fist to the player suggested intent to me, as did the force of the contact, and the fact that Fuller was not looking at the ball.

Frustrating to see players get off for things like this when Craig Parry gets suspended for 3 weeks for things which no-one ever sees.