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Q. wrote:32 game suspension

Q. wrote:32 game suspension

Phantom Gossiper wrote:Is that the same Damian Rigney that played at South Adelaide?

Don't want to make excuses or try and justify someone else actions, but given the feedback that came out from the game, could the umpire have played his fair part in creating this situation and is the punishment a bit extreme?

Phantom Gossiper wrote:Is that the same Damian Rigney that played at South Adelaide?

Don't want to make excuses or try and justify someone else actions, but given the feedback that came out from the game, could the umpire have played his fair part in creating this situation and is the punishment a bit extreme?

adr107 wrote:There is no place in this game, or any facet of life for racism.

Nor is there any place for physical threats or harm to an offical.

valleys07 wrote:Having recalled reading previous posts concerning racial vilification and race for that matter on this site- I would expect you, along with all posters on this site, to be in agreeance that this act is unacceptable no matter the circumstance. If he is to be found guilty- hope he gets the book thrown at him.

No place for that in society, let alone sport.

Phantom Gossiper wrote:

valleys07 wrote:Having recalled reading previous posts concerning racial vilification and race for that matter on this site- I would expect you, along with all posters on this site, to be in agreeance that this act is unacceptable no matter the circumstance. If he is to be found guilty- hope he gets the book thrown at him.

No place for that in society, let alone sport.

I do totally agree with that, and you wont get any arguments from me on that topic, but i'm not defending the bloke, i'm questioning the actual events of the incident and severity of the punishment.

Phantom Gossiper wrote:

adr107 wrote:There is no place in this game, or any facet of life for racism.

Nor is there any place for physical threats or harm to an offical.

I'm in no way condoning any of those things, I'm just questioning how much influence the umpire had in this and if the penalty was fitting to the actual incident that occured.

If Rigney didn't defend himself at the tribunal either or no one from North Pines presented a defence then the umpire could've said what he liked and blown it out of proportion.

Reading each individual charge, it makes for nasty reading, but what's to say that this umpire - who was accused of being a blantant cheat - gave a free kick or ignored an incident during the game, Rigney went over to question about it, went to explain the situation and show the umpire how he was being held or something (attempt to make contact to an umpire), was treated with total distain and disregard, so he calls him a d*ckhead or similar (abusing an umpire), or the umpire makes a comment about Rigney attacking him and Rigney reples something along the lines of "If i wanted to hit you i would've d*ckhead" (abusing an umpire & threatening an umpire).

Still not good from Rigney, but what i'm trying to get at is does that warrant 32 games and could the umpire have handled the situation better from his side of things to negate the situation?

Phantom Gossiper wrote:

adr107 wrote:There is no place in this game, or any facet of life for racism.

Nor is there any place for physical threats or harm to an offical.

I'm in no way condoning any of those things, I'm just questioning how much influence the umpire had in this and if the penalty was fitting to the actual incident that occured.

If Rigney didn't defend himself at the tribunal either or no one from North Pines presented a defence then the umpire could've said what he liked and blown it out of proportion.

Reading each individual charge, it makes for nasty reading, but what's to say that this umpire - who was accused of being a blantant cheat - gave a free kick or ignored an incident during the game, Rigney went over to question about it, went to explain the situation and show the umpire how he was being held or something (attempt to make contact to an umpire), was treated with total distain and disregard, so he calls him a d*ckhead or similar (abusing an umpire), or the umpire makes a comment about Rigney attacking him and Rigney reples something along the lines of "If i wanted to hit you i would've d*ckhead" (abusing an umpire & threatening an umpire).

Still not good from Rigney, but what i'm trying to get at is does that warrant 32 games and could the umpire have handled the situation better from his side of things to negate the situation?

Phantom Gossiper wrote:If I was the SAAFL I would be questioning why this occured? What makes players suddenly snap and act like this? What was the build up to it? Could it have been avoided or handled better?

Phantom Gossiper wrote:If I was the SAAFL I would be questioning why this occured? What makes players suddenly snap and act like this? What was the build up to it? Could it have been avoided or handled better?

jo172 wrote:What if Rigney walked over to the League Umpire, a neutral, just trying his best to keep control of hot heads, belted the umpire while he was looking away, stood over him calling him a weak, pathetic wog who he'd get in the car park after the game?

My point is I'm not sure hypotheticals where we have no idea what happened, let alone what the Tribunal heard are absolutely useless.

Bluedemon wrote:How has North Pines been before this incident for those that have played against them or watched them at all?

The Ash Man wrote:http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/sport/afl/north-pines-footballer-damian-rigney-banned-for-life-from-adelaide-amateur-football-league/story-fnii00l5-1227049012496?nk=f7917f2b8d99d4e0aac07caba9d83772