Sin Bin in AFL?

[Claret]

For or against the idea?

[RogueSwan]

For. (maybe, if it helps the Swans )
I would like other teams to be sin binned just not any of the Swans.

[goswannie14]

With our record with the maggots we would end up in the sin bin more than any other team.

[Destructive]

I'm for it.

[Lucky Knickers]

Nooooooooooooooo.

For all the complaints of the tribunal I would far rather have them sort the issues after the final siren.

Absolutely HATE the idea.

[prenda]

no way in the world
the game is man on man
this is footy not thugby

[graystar]

With a man off, all you would get is chip chip chip.

[Mel]

I imagine our game isn't the kind where it's possible to cover a missing player's position. It's possible in League and soccer, not Aussie Rules.

Add to that comments already here that the Swans seem to get more free kicks against than any other club and I don't think it would work in our favour.

[TheMase]

No. Judgement before reviewal is a bad idea. You see how many players are reported and it is withdrawn. Our game is far too quick for the umpire to make a sensible decision on such a thing.

It would be a case of guilty before proven innocent as opposed to innocent before proven guilty.

I can just imagine Hall being sent off in the last term and we lose by a point, then he gets off. Can you imagine the uproar?

[wheels27]

Personally agree with you, but, to play devil's advocate, if a player does something so obvious and bad that an umpire (a) sees it, and (b) deems it worthy of send off, why shouldn't the team he is playing at the time be 'compensated' (for want of a better term), rather than giving the advantage from his actions to another opponent next week.

I also agree that a man down advantage is bigger in AFL than some other games (otherwise Holland would have beaten us by 10 goals the other night.)

Maybe a send off or sin bin with replacement allowed, but the offender can not return (leaving a 3-man bench)

As an aside, does anyone know of a football league anywhere else that has the send-off rule? (other than SydneyAFL)

[Irish_33]

Originally posted by wheels27
Personally agree with you, but, to play devil's advocate, if a player does something so obvious and bad that an umpire (a) sees it, and (b) deems it worthy of send off, why shouldn't the team he is playing at the time be 'compensated' (for want of a better term), rather than giving the advantage from his actions to another opponent next week.

I also agree that a man down advantage is bigger in AFL than some other games (otherwise Holland would have beaten us by 10 goals the other night.)

Maybe a send off or sin bin with replacement allowed, but the offender can not return (leaving a 3-man bench)

As an aside, does anyone know of a football league anywhere else that has the send-off rule? (other than SydneyAFL)

yep, Gaelic football......if you do the crime you're given your marching orders.
AFL has 18 aside, plenty of numbers to cover a sending off.

[wheels27]

Thanks Irish, but I meant an AFL football league, all the guys that I've played with/against over the years from interstate all reckon they've never played with that rule outside Sydney.

[Sanecow]

Difficult question. On the one hand I hate to break with the tradition of the report and suspension but on the other it bugs the crap out of me that the team(s) that next play your opponent get the advantage of the suspension while you get a king-hit player for the game in which the incident occurred.

[Irish_33]

I hear your pain wheels, but as a person from another country let alone another sport I was amazed (and still am) when I was told you can only be reported in AFL. No wonder that big fella for Brisbane, who was retiring, went mental in the grand final a year or two ago.

[ScottH]

Originally posted by Irish_33
I hear your pain wheels, but as a person from another country let alone another sport I was amazed (and still am) when I was told you can only be reported in AFL. No wonder that big fella for Brisbane, who was retiring, went mental in the grand final a year or two ago.

Alastair Lynch.