TBR, its time to get off your hobby horse, and realise, Tommy did not choose to bump Keath, at the end of the day, he was trying to protect himself.
This saga is never going to end, I think until Lynchy himself has left the game.
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This saga is never going to end, I think until Lynchy himself has left the game.
Good question, hard to answer. I guess I'd say hitting their body with yours without trying to grab them.
TBR, its time to get off your hobby horse, and realise, Tommy did not choose to bump Keath, at the end of the day, he was trying to protect himself.
This saga is never going to end, I think until Lynchy himself has left the game.
Of course Lynch chose to bump him, let's not be silly. In the photo by Ceehook above Lynch could go right and engage with the player and the ball or go left and bump, he went left.
I don't think Keath even looks at Lynch but even assuming he was also trying to bump it doesn't matter. Even if he was trying to block and Lynch was due a free kick it also doesn't matter because you still can't just clean someone up.
The reason Lynch has an issue is the photo Zips posted above. He is off the ground and making high contact that concusses an opponent. I can't see how anyone can look at that shot and not think he is reasonably going to get a week or two.
You're still basing your argument on one "still" shot which is quite frankly a flawed argument & shows nothing of the full context of the incident.
I'll leave this discussion here & wait with baited breath for the tribunals decision. If Tom is found guilty I sincerely hope the club appeals the decision.
If he is then still found guilty then I'm afraid the game is on it's way to extinction.
So that means a player can try to do anything humanly possible to avoid head high contact but if he doesn’t succeed he gets suspended depending upon the nature of the injury ?
Now that may well be true ( and that is what some of the media are essentially saying as well) but if it is then that fundamentally changes the nature of a contact sport.
Tom should have let Keith smash into his body breaking ribs or rupturing a kidney, how dare he brace for the oncoming contact
They're certainly coming for the RFC aren't they.
Tom Lynch went from AFL Darling Child to AFL's biggest criminal pariah as soon as he chose the RFC.
Only Toby Green is more assassinated, and he's done more things worse than Tom.
Bet that never would have happened had he gone to Skunk wood.
The difference between the treatment the RFC gets as opposed to the Maggots and the Baggers or the Swans or Cats is staggering.
Tom Lynch went from AFL Darling Child to AFL's biggest criminal pariah as soon as he chose the RFC.
Only Toby Green is more assassinated, and he's done more things worse than Tom.
Bet that never would have happened had he gone to Skunk wood.
The difference between the treatment the RFC gets as opposed to the Maggots and the Baggers or the Swans or Cats is staggering.
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If he decides to bump, yes.
Surely you agree that we have heard over and over again that if you elect to bump and make high contact you are in trouble?
Is has to be a troll? Only Shocking, Gilligan, Christan amd TBR are aligned. The other million AFL people know Dangerflop got off because Shocking already knew he was going there as CEO and that Lynch is targeted because he left Gold Dump to win two flags with the most recent dynasty team.
I presume you are replying to the gutless refuter.
Let's face it, he is a shill for the AFL and if there is one thing that is required when you are defending that organisation, it is inconsistency.
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Players running forward on the lead decide not to try and mark the ball all the time, when it is misjudged or kicked too high, they prop and turn and the defender sometimes marks it. It is instinctive not to fly if no chance to touch it.
He may have made this decision in the 1000’s of a second he had, but at the same time this meant he had to brace for Keith.
I agree - next time he will raise the knee and put the arms up simulating a marking attempt every time he has someone coming from front on. even if he is not a realistic chance to mark it - appears the only way to prevent being smashed, or suspended
We're obviously waiting to see how long he's gonna be out before announcing how long the injury will be. These d-heads might as well just call this trial null and void.
The two key words on that reply are decides and elect.
My premise is two things
1. He didn’t decide or elect to do anything apart from protecting himself which is the natural human reaction
2. It wasn’t a bump, it was a collision : To suggest that a player could decide to bump rather than some other reaction in that split second is imo ludicrous.
Yes and Yes. As gravity works, turning his body slightly right and tucking his shoulder in was to protect himself in a collision with another person.
