Match Review Panel

[hearts on fire]

Whitecross challenging his 1 match ban and rightly so... don't even need to explain and go over what happened in the incident, was absolute horse sh1t how can you get suspended from that? it's bearly a free kick!

http://www.afl.com.au/news/newsarticle/tabid/208/newsid/132764/default.aspx

[story of my life]

Agree 100% but as soon as I saw the replay I thought he was going to be in trouble. Protecting the head and neck is a great initiative by the AFL but sometimes collisions happen

[LMA]

Disgraceful

[Squids]

Natural reaction from Whitecross, will be a joke if he gets games.

Selwood is one tough mother

[Zelezny Chucks]

If Whitecross has a duty of care to not take actions that can endanger another player then shouldn't Selwood have a case to answer for not protecting himself when attacking the ball?

I know that is stupid but I can see it happening. All for stamping out needless head high contact but incidental contact like that is bound to happen unavoidably.

[Coach Bombay]

Should not even be an issue. Whitecross braced himself for contact. T
If the MRP suspend him, then they should be stripped of their powers.

[RustyCage]

Whitecross cleared by tribunal

HAWTHORN utility Brendan Whitecross is free to play against Adelaide this Sunday after his one-match suspension for rough conduct against Geelong's Joel Selwood was overturned by the AFL Tribunal.

The Tribunal needed just 11 minutes to clear Whitecross after a 100-minute hearing on Wednesday night.

Tribunal member Wayne Henwood said it had not been satisfied that Whitecross' high contact with Selwood during the fourth quarter of Monday's Hawthorn-Geelong game had constituted a bump.

Whitecross had earlier been offered a one-match suspension by the Match Review Panel if he entered an early plea to a charge of level-two rough conduct against Selwood. He had risked a ban of two matches by challenging the MRP's finding at the Tribunal.

http://www.afl.com.au/news/newsarticle/tabid/208/newsid/132838/default.aspx

[JK]

Sanity prevails

[wycbloods]

Sanity prevails

I think the whole footballing community was thinking it would but were all a little concerned it may not happen.

Thankfully it did and Brendan can play this week as every thinks he should have been.

[saintal]

Finally some common sense

The AFL forgets that footy is supposed to a contact game where accidental collisions will occur from time to time and players will get hurt.

[dedja]

Just to put today's sanitised game into perspective, the reply of the 83-85 Hawthorn v Essendon grand final trilogy currently on Ch 7 highlights how tough the game once was.

If today's match review panel was in vogue then, these players would all have been banned for life!

[Jim05]

Just to put today's sanitised game into perspective, the reply of the 83-85 Hawthorn v Essendon grand final trilogy currently on Ch 7 highlights how tough the game once was.

If today's match review panel was in vogue then, these players would all have been banned for life!

Agreed
The 80's were my favourite era of footy and not just because of Essendon's sucess, men were men in that era, Yeates' hit on Brereton in the 89 GF is still one of my favs, the courage Dermie showed to play on is fantastic.

[Q.]

Just to put today's sanitised game into perspective, the reply of the 83-85 Hawthorn v Essendon grand final trilogy currently on Ch 7 highlights how tough the game once was.

If today's match review panel was in vogue then, these players would all have been banned for life!

Agreed
The 80's were my favourite era of footy and not just because of Essendon's sucess, men were men in that era, Yeates' hit on Brereton in the 89 GF is still one of my favs, the courage Dermie showed to play on is fantastic.

I got bored of watching them bomb the ball long every single passage of play

[stampy]

Just to put today's sanitised game into perspective, the reply of the 83-85 Hawthorn v Essendon grand final trilogy currently on Ch 7 highlights how tough the game once was.

If today's match review panel was in vogue then, these players would all have been banned for life!

great to watch wasnt it dedj!

[The Sleeping Giant]

Just to put today's sanitised game into perspective, the reply of the 83-85 Hawthorn v Essendon grand final trilogy currently on Ch 7 highlights how tough the game once was.

If today's match review panel was in vogue then, these players would all have been banned for life!

Agreed
The 80's were my favourite era of footy and not just because of Essendon's sucess, men were men in that era, Yeates' hit on Brereton in the 89 GF is still one of my favs, the courage Dermie showed to play on is fantastic.

I got bored of watching them bomb the ball long every single passage of play

LOL

Much more skillful game these days.

[stampy]

Just to put today's sanitised game into perspective, the reply of the 83-85 Hawthorn v Essendon grand final trilogy currently on Ch 7 highlights how tough the game once was.

If today's match review panel was in vogue then, these players would all have been banned for life!

great to watch wasnt it dedj!

oh, and i was there for that trilogy, the last qtr of the 1984 vfl grand final was the best atmosphere i have ever experienced at a footy match

[Jim05]

Just to put today's sanitised game into perspective, the reply of the 83-85 Hawthorn v Essendon grand final trilogy currently on Ch 7 highlights how tough the game once was.

If today's match review panel was in vogue then, these players would all have been banned for life!

great to watch wasnt it dedj!

oh, and i was there for that trilogy, the last qtr of the 1984 vfl grand final was the best atmosphere i have ever experienced at a footy match

Yes out of the the GF's ive been to that 84 GF had the best atmosphere, i was surrounded by a heap of grannies that were going bananas, i didnt think 70 years olds could swear as much

[The Sleeping Giant]

I'm biased, but I thought Goodes would get off at the tribunal tonight. Seen some pretty soft suspensions in the last few years, but it seems banging legs is a no no now. If the ball had bounced the other way, it might have been Surjan being reported.

http://www.afl.com.au/News/NEWSARTICLE/tabid/208/newsId/133364/Default.aspx

[Spargo]

I'm biased, but I thought Goodes would get off at the tribunal tonight. Seen some pretty soft suspensions in the last few years, but it seems banging legs is a no no now. If the ball had bounced the other way, it might have been Surjan being reported.

http://www.afl.com.au/News/NEWSARTICLE/tabid/208/newsId/133364/Default.aspx

But the ball DIDN'T bounce the other way. He could have broken the Geelong player's leg pre season with something very similar (luckily didn't) and he obviously hasn't learnt a thing. He took his eyes off the ball well before he was SECOND to the contest on Sunday and is deadset lucky the "points system" worked in his favour that he could take a free hit and not risk more than a match.
Don't get me wrong, he's a star of the game but I feel like many I've spoken to that he is a sniper at times and has got away with a lot more than other players have in the past.

[The Sleeping Giant]

Fair enough. I didn't think there was much in it. Only a week so it won't hurt Sydney too much. I suppose he should have gone in Selwood style.