Mummy, downgrade - 2 week ban - swans consider appeal

[CJK]

Pathetic.

[Dogzbody]

Moving on....... we now go into 2 big games against the Dogs and Freo without 1 & 2 Ruckman. Pyke and Currie anyone????

[Big Al]

Re: Mummy, downgrade - 2 week ban - swans consider appeal

The AFL can get @@@@@@. The soft @@@@ game they're turning this game into will be a laughing stock in Western Sydney.

RIP Aussie Rules.

Time to watch more league where your allowed to play like men.

[Peace]

what an absolute crock of @@@@.

[Cheer_Cheer]

How dare anyone tackle SOG. Goodes protected species my ass..

[swansrule100]

mumford should of done a better job of it if he was gonna do time.

Time to sticky tape seaby up and send him out there i reckon

[Yuri H]

I utter a mighty "bah!"

Too bad I'm in Sydney. I'd dust off my old activist bones and organise pickets and civil disobedience outside their headquarters. And tackle them as they leave the building.

[Snake]

How dare anyone tackle SOG. Goodes protected species my ass..

I just wish mummy, smashed him harder into the turf, the oxygen thief......

[mcs]

absolute joke and pathetic to say the least. I hope we appeal it,

The AFL is trying seriously hard to ruin the physicality that makes AFL the great game it is. Soon it will be more futile than Netball- why not just give Ablett his own exclusion zone of 5 metres diameter so that he can always do what he wants when he wants (Saying that he invariably has a voluntary one when he plays us anyway!)

[Bas]

I have a bad feeling that for them to save face they will let it stand and he will get 3 weeks.

Well I was only wrong by 1 week.

I'm sure any appeal will fail because of the same reasons.

[Lucky Knickers]

Does the appeal carry any extra penalties?
I hope they do appeal Watching OTC tonight and some of the other examples as a minimum it will provide clarity to players for the rest of the year.

[Matt79]

Obviously being a Swannies fan site, we could all be accused of being one eyed and fair enough. BUT just about EVERYONE excluding the match review panel sees this as an absolutely discraceful decision. The lack of consistency is frightfully outrageous. We have to appeal not just for us but for the benefit of every AFL player and the game in general.

[Puppy Eyes]

"The tribunal's legal counsel, Jeff Gleeson SC, said Mumford's tackle consisted of two separate actions - pinning Ablett's arms and then rolling and flinging him to the ground.

He deemed the ruckman's second action as unnecessary and said it was "inherently dangerous to with force turn an upper torso with your own body and slam into the ground"."

It's official. You now can't tackle a player to the ground. Action 1. Wrapping the player up. Action 2. Bringing them to ground. That's what Jeff Gleeson is saying here. @@@@ I'm a law student and I could defeat a Senior Counsel on that rubbish. The intention of the double action rule was to stop players being thrown or ground into the dirt. Mumford's was just a simple hard tackle.

[liz]

Just went and did some Googling to see if I can find how the AFL's laws describe where a tackle is rough conduct. Haven't really found anything conclusive but did find this article from Patrick Smith from a few weeks ago. My guess is that Smith thinks Mumford's tackle should be a suspendable event, which is pretty much the view Brian Taylor gave on OTC just a short while ago. But as Smith points out in this article (and Healy focussed on on OTC), it is not an interpretation that has been applied by the AFL up to this weekend. I guess most of us would be less ropable if any of the numorous other examples of similar tackles - including the one barely 24 hours ago - had been treated the same way.

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[Primmy]

I agree Matt, we will have to protest this to the highest level, even if Mummy gets done over again. This is just petty and they know it. I hope the Swans get in Barry Hall's advocate back in 2005, and why the bloody hell haven't they to start with (assuming they didn't, I have to blow off steam in some direction), and charge at full tilt.