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Lynch !!
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just watched the incident that Richo just put up on twitter, I’m trying Not to be biased at all, however I can understand a free kick been paid as his hand does slide up and touch Hurleys beard, though I still think it’s such minimal contact that it is play on, however to have that a fine or report on anything else is just ridiculous
There’s just so much wrong with this. I was thinking “ good, they’ll use the footage at the tribunal to get him off” then I realised that christian has sent it to the tribunal on the basis of the footage.
Putting my bias aside for a moment and trying to be objective......
- why wasn’t Hurley charged with striking Lynch’s hand repeatedly off the ball and with his back to the play? Not sure if he targeted the injured hand or not but still repeatedly threw punches.
- why didn’t any umpire pay a free kick for Hurley blocking Lynch’s path to the ball when play was a fair bit away, and as mentioned, Hurley had his back to the play
- if Vlastuin was fined for staging ( I think that the blow originally struck vlas on the shoulder but then continued on to glance him higher. Not intentional but I still think it was there), then why hasn’t Hurley been fined for staging. At worst Lynch’s hand touched his beard. Hurley “recovered” pretty quick once he realised no umpire was looking
- I believe lynch was using his forearm to continually try and push Hurley away from him as he was trying to get to the action. There was no fist and no punch as the media seem to be claiming.
- throughout the night you can repeatedly hear an umpire saying that he would pay a free kick and it didn’t matter if contact was light if things continued. The commentators didn’t say who the umpire was referring to and since there is no scrutiny for any other clashes that continued throughout the game, I can only assume it was directed Lynch and Hurley. so to me, at least one umpire saw what was unfolding throughout the night but didn’t actually do anything about it other than issue a weak threat that was never followed upon. I don’t think any free kick was paid on the night
please correct me if I’m wrong on any of the points I’ve made.
I really hope we highlight the lead up footage to the incident resulting in the charge
Putting my bias aside for a moment and trying to be objective......
- why wasn’t Hurley charged with striking Lynch’s hand repeatedly off the ball and with his back to the play? Not sure if he targeted the injured hand or not but still repeatedly threw punches.
- why didn’t any umpire pay a free kick for Hurley blocking Lynch’s path to the ball when play was a fair bit away, and as mentioned, Hurley had his back to the play
- if Vlastuin was fined for staging ( I think that the blow originally struck vlas on the shoulder but then continued on to glance him higher. Not intentional but I still think it was there), then why hasn’t Hurley been fined for staging. At worst Lynch’s hand touched his beard. Hurley “recovered” pretty quick once he realised no umpire was looking
- I believe lynch was using his forearm to continually try and push Hurley away from him as he was trying to get to the action. There was no fist and no punch as the media seem to be claiming.
- throughout the night you can repeatedly hear an umpire saying that he would pay a free kick and it didn’t matter if contact was light if things continued. The commentators didn’t say who the umpire was referring to and since there is no scrutiny for any other clashes that continued throughout the game, I can only assume it was directed Lynch and Hurley. so to me, at least one umpire saw what was unfolding throughout the night but didn’t actually do anything about it other than issue a weak threat that was never followed upon. I don’t think any free kick was paid on the night
please correct me if I’m wrong on any of the points I’ve made.
I really hope we highlight the lead up footage to the incident resulting in the charge
Wonder if Hurley would be prepared to testify in Lynch's defence. Surely he's embarrassed that he's got Lynch sent up for that.
Massive distraction from preparation for our most important game of the season. I *smile* hate footy media. Sh!tkickers all.
Massive distraction from preparation for our most important game of the season. I *smile* hate footy media. Sh!tkickers all.
Was a joke, Lynch was trying to push Hurley off him so that he could actually play footy and lead up. Hurley wasn't trying to play footy and wanted to hurt Lynch by punching his injured hand.
Lynch is the one in the wrong judging by the media.
Was a joke, Lynch was trying to push Hurley off him so that he could actually play footy and lead up. Hurley wasn't trying to play footy and wanted to hurt Lynch by punching his injured hand.
Lynch is the one in the wrong judging by the media.
Watching First Crack, Tom Morris wants Lynch done for striking. King wants it thrown out, the same with the Vlastuin one that he said was a 50 and the issue was Bellchambers and not Vlastuins. The only 1 he agreed with was Grimes staging, which I can understand. Don't normally like Kingy that much but he was 100% right with this.
Seems most players think the Lynch thing is a joke, its the non playing media muppets that are making so much out of it, like Ralph, Morris, etc
Seems most players think the Lynch thing is a joke, its the non playing media muppets that are making so much out of it, like Ralph, Morris, etc
