Changes for Round 17 - West Coast

[ugg]

There'll be at least one change with McGlynn just charged by the MRP - 4 weeks to 3 with an early plea. Sentence seems excessive but I think the best the Swans could do is to try to downgrade the intentional grading but he'll still miss a few games.

[i'm-uninformed2]

Bizarre.

This is the MRP that said the McKernan hit last week that everyone in footy damned was not intentional.

Based on that, how they could rule this intentional is beyond me.

[annew]

Methinks all the uproar over the past few weeks abut the MRP means they have now decided to come down hard. The AFL is a joke absolutely o consistency whatsoever. It will be interesting to see how weak they end up being over the Essendon issue.

[ShockOfHair]

Link: McGlynn offered three weeks by MRP - SYDNEYSWANS.com.au

If only we could get a review system that worked really well. Like the DRS.

Cometh the hour, cometh Cunningham?

[Go Swannies]

Do you think they thought "he'll be out for a couple with the hammy so we'll add a week or two on top"? Whether we fight will give us a good idea of the extent of the injury. Stake is out for WCE too. And Pav for the Dockers v Tigers.

[Triple B]

Stake is out for WCE too.

I'll take a guess and say you're talking about the punching bag that plays for Brisbane??

[stellation]

It doesn't look great on the replay, I don't think there's any way they can legitimately argue he was trying to punch for the ball so it will come down to trying to lay a tackle, but he has a clenched fist. At best he was trying to give him a fair whack to the arm/chest disguised as a legitimate attempt at a tackle- probably okay if he collects him around the arm, but not at all on if you get someone around the ear.

He hit him pretty hard, we'd be unhappy if it was one of our players. That Benny's a great teammate and he just happened to do it to someone who was effectively tagging one of his buddies does make you wonder (again, I think he tried to make him wear one but not particularly hit him in the head).

[swansrob]

I'll take a guess and say you're talking about the punching bag that plays for Brisbane??

I think he means Embley.

Out: McGlynn
In: Cunningham

[undy]

Dang - I never saw what happened. Someone at the game mentioned it, but I didn't see any follow-up. I did see KJ going a little OTT on a couple of occasions so maybe the Giants were a bit niggly.

[i'm-uninformed2]

It doesn't look great on the replay, I don't think there's any way they can legitimately argue he was trying to punch for the ball so it will come down to trying to lay a tackle, but he has a clenched fist. At best he was trying to give him a fair whack to the arm/chest disguised as a legitimate attempt at a tackle- probably okay if he collects him around the arm, but not at all on if you get someone around the ear.

He hit him pretty hard, we'd be unhappy if it was one of our players. That Benny's a great teammate and he just happened to do it to someone who was effectively tagging one of his buddies does make you wonder (again, I think he tried to make him wear one but not particularly hit him in the head).

All very sensible and no doubt a suspension is in order. The fact is he made contact with his head and he was concussed. But . . .

Compared to the McKernan one, is it really possible to say Ben's effort to strike him in the head was any more obviously intentional?

No. Hence the different gradings, and severity of sentence, are absurd.

[stellation]

All very sensible and no doubt a suspension is in order. The fact is he made contact with his head and he was concussed. But . . .

Compared to the McKernan one, is it really possible to say Ben's effort to strike him in the head was any more obviously intentional?

No. Hence the different gradings, and severity of sentence, are absurd.

Oh, completely agree with you there- it's become a farce. If there was even remote consistency with it fans (and I'm sure players and coaches) would be much happier with the findings.

What I don't particularly get here is intentional, I get that you need to be responsible for your own actions but in this case I don't think the intention was to deliver the resultant blow to the head. I imagine it's a massive can of worms if they start wavering on intent in regards to swinging your arm versus where you made contact (or can you get that altered?).

[longmile]

How far away is Jetta?

[Ludwig]

It looks like Ben was going for the ball and didn't intend to hit him in the head. Yes, it may have been crude, but isn't it similar to what goes down in most marking contests when a defender 'accidentally' punches someone in the head ostensibly trying to hit the ball?

[stellation]

It looks like Ben was going for the ball and didn't intend to hit him in the head. Yes, it may have been crude, but isn't it similar to what goes down in most marking contests when a defender 'accidentally' punches someone in the head ostensibly trying to hit the ball?

I think it's very kind on Ben to suggest that he was going for the ball, I think he had every intention of giving Tom a whack and just whacked him in the wrong spot.

[Go Swannies]

I think he means Embley.

Out: McGlynn
In: Cunningham

Cheers and thanks. Note to self - don't try to multitask.

On the replacement, Jetta played reserves on Saturday, didn't he? Is he far from returning?

And we have to make our player selections for the expanses of the long thin nature strip that is Subi. Not that we have many viable choices to make.