missy higgins did that on Thursday & surspisingly got fined
If it was Grimes or Tigga, 2 weeks
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Dangerous tackle
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If it was Grimes or Tigga, 2 weeks
Tiger pair fined for dangerous tackles
Toby Nankervis and Shai Bolton have been charged for rough conduct following the match review of last night's win over Brisbane.
Tin foil hat is on. What a lot of absolute *smile*.
Have just seen this send off from last night's rugby test. I honestly think contact sports are under genuine threat of survival.
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Players have been taught how to play for high contact frees and in the back frees. No doubt this will be another one they exploit for advantage.
Daniher is the king of staging. He's been pretending to be a footballer for the last 5 years.
I think most people feel this way.
The AFL is changing the game slowly enough to keep people watching, but fast enough to avoid getting sued for concussions.
Some sports accept the risk (boxing, MMA), but the AFL would end up suffering from low participation rates among the next generation of kids. The other direction is to become a non-contact sport altogether.
The only hope for a middle ground is if concussion research comes back around. We should become more sophisticated about minimising the risks compared to the sledgehammer approach we’re seeing now. How soon is the question.
But until the AFL receive the legal green light to press pause on their current shift towards becoming a non-contact version of AFL, we will continue to see jarring changes to interpretation such as the sudden dangerous tackle reinterpretation mid-season.
Watching this unfold is giving me a headache.
I can understand that dangerous tackles are a problem which needs addressing.
But, there are 2 problems with the way they are dealing with it:
DS
But, there are 2 problems with the way they are dealing with it:
- The reason players are dragging other players sideways in a tackle is to avoid the" flop forward - in the back" free so many players have been getting.
- The gross inconsistency with which they adjudicate a dangerous tackle - how many tackles similar to those the Richmond players were pinged for, and even fined for, happened this weekend and did not even lead to a free kick?
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Tony Braxton-Hicks
There are no stupid ideas, just stupid people
Nice.
My vote goes to the AFL for king of staging. They've been pretending to be a football organisation for 20+ years.
I just mentioned it in the umpires thread
There were 2 tackles in the Collingwood Carlton game that were on par with the ones from Fridey night. Both weren't called back.
Im over it with how many players arw constantly getting away with throwing the ball.
McCrea Can't handball.
90% of Collingwoods backline throw the ball.
Then watching Footscary last night. It's a fken joke
Ive watched the vast majority of the other games but haven’t seen it paid.
Incredible if there’s no call of it in 8 other games but 5 calls of it in one particular game…
Very good Tones
When I was at the St Kilda game (shudder) a young lass yelled out to Short "hey Shorty, I bet not everything about you is short eh"
Kids these days
I thought the Nank on Daniher was justified. He tackled to hurt and Daniher did hit the deck hard. The others were nonsense.
Interesting comment by Donna in his presser post game when asked about these “dangerous tackles”. He said as long as that rule is applied consistently in all other games then he is fine with it. Of course we all know now that it wasn’t applied - more angst against the anti RFC by umpires (and AFL).
