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Josh Caddy
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It was an open-handed attempt to spoil a handpass, Mackay's jaw must be made of tissue paper. Worth appealing if losing won't increase the penalty.
SCOOP said:
i agree. I hope the club challenges it but history says we won't.
What started out bumping to the head now constitutes any forceful contact to the head even if entirely accidental.
Line keeps creeping & they're losing the plot.
Mopsy said:
Agree. It's gone crazy in this age of PC and social media. Players cannot cause injury by accident any more, even though they're moving at the speed of light and making decisions in a split-second, but they're accountable because they miss the ball, someone gets hurt.
Ridiculous penalty. Just bad luck. It happens constantly in life.
While unintentional the guy ended up with concussion.
It is 2018. Head (read brain) is sacrosanct and that is a good thing
It is 2018. Head (read brain) is sacrosanct and that is a good thing
Caddy got a week and is probably fair enough and you accept your penalty and move on,Whilst it was an open hand it was late and caused concussion
1 week is about right imo
1 week is about right imo
I'm sure that when suspensions were first introduced as penalties, they were designed to act as deterants to dis encourage acts of violence or physical aggression. Not sure what is to be learnt from accidental contact.
This brings luck into the equation where clubs can actually lose games due to bad luck/acts of God. Has the league factored this in because the player who has a week off has nothing to learn from the experience?
This brings luck into the equation where clubs can actually lose games due to bad luck/acts of God. Has the league factored this in because the player who has a week off has nothing to learn from the experience?
If the other player hadn't been concussed, it woukd have been a 50 metre penalty and deservedly so, but nothing woukd have happened. As he was concussed then we should take the week and count ourselves lucky it wasn't 2.
These are the rules now and there is no point appealing.
The fact is however that he had 2 choices, he either pulled out and decided to not try and block the hand pass or to do what he did. We have lost context of what happens on a footy field. If it is a football related incident with the ball the purpose and the contact is incidental to that purpose it should not be reportable. Look at context first and then result but we do it the other way around.
It was graded careless, since when is an attempted blocking a hand pass careless? It’s footy
The fact is however that he had 2 choices, he either pulled out and decided to not try and block the hand pass or to do what he did. We have lost context of what happens on a footy field. If it is a football related incident with the ball the purpose and the contact is incidental to that purpose it should not be reportable. Look at context first and then result but we do it the other way around.
It was graded careless, since when is an attempted blocking a hand pass careless? It’s footy
