It was Mollison umpiring. He’s known for calling play on where it should have been a free kick.
I hope not. The club appealed and failed to get him off, the end.
I’m as disappointed as everyone else re Merrett, however, we have a big match coming up, rather they concentrate on that and not get sidetracked.
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There’s no functioning union.
There’s an association that’s paid for by the employer, but that’s the opposite of a union.
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Finally sighted the right cited, sited correctly?
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That Oliver one is the most dangerous one by an absolute mile and had been a free kick for around a decade (a tackle by Dempsey on the boundary line vs the tigers around a decade ago which wasn’t half as bad springs to mind). Yet, play on…
Christian absolutely bases his assessments off the media coverage
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It’s a contact sport, the potential for injury can occur crossing the white line. The strange part of the AFL approach is that a player could get injured through something inoculus as running and change of direction (with or without another player doing anything), ie hammy or knee.
Reading between the lines it’s a legal approach to handling the situation rather than actually addressing the root cause (in my opinion), not rewarding the tackler with HTB. They want constant movement rather than a stoppage. Muppets.
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So what happens to the run down tackle of you can’t take a player to the ground as people are now saying …
You come from behind to tackle it’s impossible to tackle and both stay on your feet
If you ran someone down tackled them to the ground and there head nearly hit the ground is that a week …
Adam’s should have got more as the guy was already tackled .
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All solved if the umpires blow the whistle earlier, either for HTB (the majority of the time) or a ball-up.
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Any slinging action is out the window, a drag down tackle should be ok… should be…maybe…
It’s becoming a game of tag.
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With a big serve of impact on Essendon.
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There will no doubt be a heap of instances now where players instead of trying to stand up in the tackle will just slump especially if one arm pinned.
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Isn’t that sort of what Spargo was doing, going the duck and instead giving himself concussion? Not the same thing of course, one was a duck into an oncoming player to get a high free kick, the other a flop as part of a tackle. But he injured himself trying to seek a free. Players will do this until they get really injured then they (the direct player) will stop.
I seem to remember a Dees player who went to Freo (I think) and was known as a flopper to get a free for holding. He flopped so bad over the boundary one day that he hurt himself. Was that Farmer?
Ok, wheres the Association been in all this?
Fair call, just curious
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There is very minimal head contact with the ground from the swans player. Most of the impact is the body and shoulder.
Aren’t they policing the action, not the result.
The action was 10x more dangerous than Merrets. Unless you believe Oliver perfectly intended to put him down on his shoulder -which he didn’t.
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I don’t believe Spargo was trying to seek a free. It looked like he was changing direction, to wrong foot Redman, to buy himself a bit of time and space.
It’s definitely a dangerous tackle so I guess they would now say it has potential to cause injury and suspend the action for a week? The goal posts have obviously moved which is an AFL staple.
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Without knee jerk reactions the AFL would do nothing.
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How do you think that would help? I understand the sentiment entirely but to 16 other supporter bases and the AFL the only message they would get would be disrespect of the occasion. The reason behind the proposed booing would be shoved aside and before you know it, the ANZAC day blockbuster would suddenly have to be shared around.
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