AFL Round 8

[FlyingHigh]

There are no words for the disgrace that is the Close suspension. Maybe it's time to suspend, or at least pay a free against, anyone who tries to break a tackle. After all I believe they do something similar in Rugby Union if a player in a certain circumstance puts his head in a dangerous position that in previous times he would have got a penalty for.

Same with the Van Rooyen one. How can he get two weeks and Fogarty from last week not even get cited?

[whufc]

There are no words for the disgrace that is the Close suspension. Maybe it's time to suspend, or at least pay a free against, anyone who tries to break a tackle. After all I believe they do something similar in Rugby Union if a player in a certain circumstance puts his head in a dangerous position that in previous times he would have got a penalty for.

Same with the Van Rooyen one. How can he get two weeks and Fogarty from last week not even get cited?

Great example and ridiculous that the two incidents can be viewed so differently.

[MW]

There are no words for the disgrace that is the Close suspension. Maybe it's time to suspend, or at least pay a free against, anyone who tries to break a tackle. After all I believe they do something similar in Rugby Union if a player in a certain circumstance puts his head in a dangerous position that in previous times he would have got a penalty for.

Same with the Van Rooyen one. How can he get two weeks and Fogarty from last week not even get cited?

Great example and ridiculous that the two incidents can be viewed so differently.

Based on outcome not act.
Just look at Pickett and McAdam. Pickett gets two weeks as Smith could play on no problem, and McAdam gets three because his opponent had a 20 minute concussion test.

[whufc]

There are no words for the disgrace that is the Close suspension. Maybe it's time to suspend, or at least pay a free against, anyone who tries to break a tackle. After all I believe they do something similar in Rugby Union if a player in a certain circumstance puts his head in a dangerous position that in previous times he would have got a penalty for.

Same with the Van Rooyen one. How can he get two weeks and Fogarty from last week not even get cited?

Great example and ridiculous that the two incidents can be viewed so differently.

Based on outcome not act.
Just look at Pickett and McAdam. Pickett gets two weeks as Smith could play on no problem, and McAdam gets three because his opponent had a 20 minute concussion test.

I know that's how the real world legal system works especially when it comes to assaults etc but i dont know in a sporting sense i feel the act has to be punished equal to the outcome.

[amber_fluid]

Next year there’s no tackling or bumping.
It’ll be touch/tag footy.
You have to hold the guernsey and count to 3.
Tex may have to retire coz of this.

[mighty_tiger_79]

The game is now completely goneski

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[whufc]

The game is now completely goneski

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Yet we will all tune in to watch our favorite teams and the crowds will attend in record numbers.

[mighty_tiger_79]

The game is now completely goneski

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Yet we will all tune in to watch our favorite teams and the crowds will attend in record numbers.

Yep, for the majority that is correct.


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[amber_fluid]

The game is now completely goneski

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Yet we will all tune in to watch our favorite teams and the crowds will attend in record numbers.

Will they?
Are post Covid crowd numbers up or down?
Surely the Adelaide teams crowds are down.

And with ratings how is that measured given we have more options to watch every game(cheap Kayo) and people have multiple TV’s at home and we also watch it on our phones nowadays to check scores.
How do they actually measure that?

[whufc]

The game is now completely goneski

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Yet we will all tune in to watch our favorite teams and the crowds will attend in record numbers.

Will they?
Are post Covid crowd numbers up or down?
Surely the Adelaide teams crowds are down.

And with ratings how is that measured given we have more options to watch every game(cheap Kayo) and people have multiple TV’s at home and we also watch it on our phones nowadays to check scores.
How do they actually measure that?

I don't have the numbers but every week the AFL seem to be announcing a record attendance eg last week was the largest ever Collingwood Sydney crowd for a non-finals game.

[Jim05]

Rioli got it downgraded and copped 2 weeks

[amber_fluid]

Rioli got it downgraded and copped 2 weeks

Raffertys’s Rules!

[tigerpie]

Can anybody that's played the game tell me what van Rooyen is supposed to do if he's in the same situation in future?
Let the opponent mark uncontested?
The Murphy hit just baffles me if you put those two incidents side by side.

[am Bays]

Rioli got it downgraded and copped 2 weeks

Kudos to the Port Lawyer for this stunning piece of Court-room repartee: “ We say unfortunately because the arm (of Rioli) was up, Mr Ridley ran into it," Ehrlich told the Tribunal.”

https://www.afl.com.au/news/922373/the-verdict-is-in-tribunal-makes-call-on-rioli-hit?fbclid=IwAR3so-wZCWD0N1LOuPf6qslJj6Vl7e3ZgldmkdEbl_TQk8_sMNRmhlQSWRA&mibextid=Zxz2cZ

Beats the “Sun in my eyes” excuse they used with Frampton in 2019

[Vamos]

The game is now completely goneski

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Yet we will all tune in to watch our favorite teams and the crowds will attend in record numbers.

Will they?
Are post Covid crowd numbers up or down?
Surely the Adelaide teams crowds are down.

And with ratings how is that measured given we have more options to watch every game(cheap Kayo) and people have multiple TV’s at home and we also watch it on our phones nowadays to check scores.
How do they actually measure that?

YoU're asKing the wrong person.

[Trader]

Oh and how can van Rooyen from the Dees be classified as high impact when Ballard gets stretchered off, but Junior’s is severe when the bomber walked off himself?

I imagine because one player was subbed out with concussion, and the other player will be able to play this week.

I didn’t mind your explanation, however it seems the tribunal has now agreed with me, downgrading it from severe to high.
For what it’s worth, I’m not sure it’s a vote of confidence when the rabble that is the tribunal agrees with me!

[Spargo]

Rioli should buy a lotto ticket.

[gadj1976]

The game is now completely goneski

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Yet we will all tune in to watch our favorite teams and the crowds will attend in record numbers.

I'm not. And I'm sure I'll have many people follow my lead in due course.

[Trader]

The game is now completely goneski

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Yet we will all tune in to watch our favorite teams and the crowds will attend in record numbers.

I'm not. And I'm sure I'll have many people follow my lead in due course.

The beautiful thing about a growing population is that even without growing the game in terms of the percentage of the population that watch it, you can still announce record attendances each year as new followers join the party, even if a few dinosaurs don’t return to the game.

[Vamos]

Rioli should buy a lotto ticket.

And brush it across Ridley's face, that's about the extent of the contact.