I just saw the Steven May incident for the first time.
Dunstall and co were talking about how he was going for the ball.
I agree…especially if Evans head was the ball and if going for the ball with your shoulder (remembering that the “ball” is in fact Evans head) is how the game us supposed to be played.
May is a clearly unable to get this crap out of his game.
The tribunal needs to give him a very long holiday.
Going to be very interesting to see if Moore & Maynard are cited for separate incidents in the last quarter.
Both should be
The Moore one was an absolute disgrace.
Just saw it; fmd surely Moore has something to answer for dropping his knees into the back of the Dockers player?
MRO=craig Christian, nah all good.
Billy Duckworth used to do that every week.
Or even up to 3 times in one quarter if he was playing on Ken Hunter (who ended up weeing blood at half time if memory serves me correct).
Neither of them were cited or fined or probably even looked at.
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Regarding the May hit on Evans and Christian saying its the hardest case he’s had to decide on in a decade -
The AFL has farked it up again by creating a problem that never existed before.
In years gone by, players like Evans and May in this instance would have turned their shoulder into the oncoming player to protect themselves as they went hard for the ball, knowing there would likely be a collision.
The AFL, in wrongly thinking they were changing the rules to protect the head, have effectively outlawed turning your shoulder into a contest. The result? No protection, players leading with their heads and head injuries where there never used to be.
Players run up to ground balls now and go head first knowing their opponet can’t touch them, and we all shake our heads when they are concussed by oncoming players who either can’t stop on a sixpence, or worse, are stationary but have the injured player effectively cause his own injury by colliding as his own momentum takes him into his opponent while leading with his head.
The solution? Just let them use their shoulder but don’t allow deliberate or reckless contact to the head. The emphasis on “deliberate” or “reckless”. Reasonable use of the shoulder should not incur a penalty. If that was the interpretation, players would not be leading with their heads.
May out 3 weeks
“A reasonable player in today’s game” administered by AwFL could not know what was officially “reasonable” from one week to another.
I might be on my own on this but I don’t feel May tried to actually contest the ball and dropped the shoulder a bit had he actually had his hands out to grab the ball then it would be a different story
I agree with you. To me it looks like at the last moment he realised Evans had got to the ball first, and he changed his position so that instead of leading with his hands to get the ball, he led with his shoulder directly to the head. Result, concussion. I think he got off quite lightly. No sympathy at all.
I thought he did have his hands out to contest the ball. I also think he’s a sly dog and the odds are that he knew exactly what he was doing and almost did a very good job of disguising it.
I don’t like the tribunal’s reasoning. Saying that it’s unreasonable to make a miscalculation of milli seconds is nonsense on stilts.
Call him out as a sniper and find that it was in fact a thinly concealed bump. Or, let him off
The bloke did a drive-by, casually running past the unsuspecting player, leading with his shoulder, flushing him clean. Dog act
Yeah a drive by. To me it looks like he dips his leading shoulder.
Thats not to pick up the ball thats to collect the bloke.
Watch the full replay and where May comes from. He turns and double backs when the Carlton bloke is clearly going to get the footy first.
Then he runs through him.
Also the tribunal.
LOVES THE DEATHRIDE
Should have got off.
Livid the ■■■■ only got three.
