yeah 90k booing at the start of the game on anzac day. what a excellent idea. FMD
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That’s a terrible idea. Right after the minutes silence everyone starts booing?
Crikey.
I was saying “Boo-rave, Boo-rave military personnel who have served this country, thank you for your service”
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They can do what they want. It all starts with how they deem the action. If it’s deemed a dangerous tackle then their guidelines say that they have to consider the potential to cause injury. I don’t even know how it gets classified as a dangerous tackle, let alone that they can make that assessment, where the player that is getting tackled falls onto the body of the tackling player first.
We shouldn’t be surprised though. Great Gil foreshadowed this type of crazy stuff:
“People are aware I was very agitated by that decision,” McLachlan said.
“It made no sense to me in any way, and it is frustrating to have a legal view about due process or procedural fairness - a complete nonsense - really affect a clear mandate to protect the head.
“We confused our supporters and set ourselves back and that really frustrates me.
“When you can have something that is so important, which is protecting the head, and a clear statement from the MRO and backed up by the Tribunal, and then the player getting off because of a legal technicality and nobody really understanding what the hell happened, I find that challenging."
Whatelely running propaganda about why Zac Merrett needed to be rubbed out but Clayton Oliver’s tackle on Parker is A-OK
It’s a dangerous tackle but he doesn’t hit the head so it’s okay.
Lyon “so it’s based on luck, really?”
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never trust anyone with posture like whatley theres a reason they’re bending down (they can do it theirself)
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One of your best, actually.
For real? The man is shameless
Goebbles would be impressed
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I mean, even the dees fans I’ve shown that to have conceded it’s a mile worse and based on the standard of the last two weeks he absolutely should have been rubbed out
Gerard and King are absolute fanbois of what is happening. Gerard said on radio today that he doesn’t go to football for tackling. It tells you everything.
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Ok so whately here is explaining the AFL position. They’ve still got it wrong because they’re not going after the action which is inherently dangerous. They’re saying it’s only dangerous if the victim hits their head. They’re a bunch of fark wits
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Whatever, imagine football without the crowd crying “ball”
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If you look at the Oliver one, and think that’s acceptable under current thinking but Merretts isn’t , then you should never, ever be employed and paid to give opinions on football. Ever.
Absolute farce, and Whateley’s sycophant status plumbs new depths.
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To be fair I think he’s explaining the AFL position, not his own. However, He’s not really being an honest journalist by failing to challenge that position
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Even if you accept all his premises, which I don’t, explain how it’s not a fine
At the very least not low impact body contact?
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twatley doesn’t seem to recognise the problem in suspending or not based on the random event as to whether the player’s head hits the ground.
If you perform a “dangerous” tackle it’s outside the control of the tackler as to whether the opponent’s head hits the ground, so penalties are being dished out based on luck.
Zack misses Anzac because of bad luck. He doesn’t even seem to register that this is inherently unfair.
As the self-appointed moral arbiter of all things AFL, twatley is struggling with the idea of fair and equitable.
The rules need to be clarified so players know if they are allowed or not to take an opponent to ground.
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Pencil neck dweeb says pencil neck dweeb thing.
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Agreed. He also blatantly ignores the central issue which is interpretation of prior opportunity. Umpires are giving way too much time to players who stand up in a tackle to dispose of the ball. If standing up in the tackle became holding the ball (eg considered prior opportunity) then we wouldn’t see sling tackles. AFL can’t fathom the concept of taking any responsibility for significantly contributing to an issue though.
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