Because that’s what the VFL random number generator came up with.
so so much negativity,deprtessing
Feel like you’d have contest the charge in the first instance, knowing you’re going to lose, just to get the code’s argument on record.
What the league thinks he’s supposed to have done, precisely, in those circumstances.
And then have that argument be immediately dismissed on appeal.
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It’s lucky we hacked the code and put in an upper limit of four. They had it scaled like VFL quarter lengths, he could have been facing 58 weeks otherwise.
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I mean…if we’re talking about any sort of natural justice…
There’s no intent.
There’s no negligence.
Self-defence is a thing.
I mean, yes, the same thing we let Wright be destroyed over, basically.
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The Wright one was bad but this is even worse again IMO.
Firstly, the Suns player has Vigo in his field of view and secondly, Vigo actively tries to deviate and get out of the way. The force of the collision is not being driven by Vigo at all but rather the Suns player.
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‘See, Your Honour? See? The AFL take concussions and player safety very seriously.’
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Has a suspension been announced yet, or are we getting antsy prematurely?
Yeah. It’s a 4 week suspension.
Good ■■■■■■■ lord we’re doomed.
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Ehhhhh, but for what it’s worth, the other guy got there first. He has the ball.
I mark them evenly.
Equally as…unnatural to seek to punish.
I mean…you could talk about incidents where players actually seek to make illegal high contact and somehow go unpunished, but that really should not be necessary.
And it’s not admissible anyway.
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When I saw it I thought he’d be gone
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Totally. These days you don’t not go for that. It sucks because it’s only about arse covering.
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Actually, on appeal you probably could talk about other things.
I’ve long thought that law doesn’t matter to a tribunal, but apparently on appeal…it does matter.
You can argue the decision is incorrect in law, there.
You can talk about whether this was a reckless act, or a collision that will inevitably happen under the rules of the game.
You can ask if a player going for a high mark and kneeing someone in the back of the head is somehow less culpable than a guy protecting his body from someone approaching him at top speed.
But it’s all moot.
T.I.E.
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Must appeal this. We have been so limp ■■■■ about this and not challenged anything aside from Weid’s 3 week suspension, again in the VFL. I reckon the semantics of showing a player that we back them, we are prepared to defend them and clear them, says a lot. That the club will stand up for them. This year we’ve routinely decided to sit there and accept the punishments handed down, whilst other clubs challenge far more trivial offences and get decisions overturned…
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Maybe if he goes to the hearing in a Brisbane Lions jumper and a Charlie Cameron mask, we can get him off?
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Have the club issued any statements of any sort of just let it go?
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Club probably don’t even know who he is. He plays VFL.
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What is Vigo supposed to do there?
Ball in dispute, trys to avoid, braces for contact.
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