MRP

[hot potato]

Ben should take his medicine, chip back onto the fairway and take a triple bogey.

[Alan]

Yep, a pretty poor decision by our little nuggety forward. Probably suffers from small mans syndrome at only 171cm tall. He is probably shorter than his Nan. Scully had eyes for the ball and Benny had a very cheap shot. He will be disappointed with himself.

[longmile]

the alternate angle does make it look worse

[jono2707]

4 weeks is rubbish! The club should go to the tribunal to appeal the verdict and severity of the finding. Adelaide player deliberately elbows to the head and only gets 2 weeks. An elbow to the head is a dog act!

I think everyone now knows that to give McKernan 2 weeks for what he did was a gross miscarriage of justice. However unfortunately that doesn't help Benny this week and if anything, the MRP have taken a harsher line on a few players to perhaps try to reassert their authority.

[Ludwig]

I know Benny can get a bit agro, but to whack someone in the head in a contested ball situation, early in the game, doesn't make sense. I think it was an aggressive act, but believe that the head contact was accidental. To me it seems that Benny was thinking of contesting the ball, but realised that Scully was over it and he would fall onto Scully's back, so took a clumsy swing in the direction of the ball, and unfortunately, Scully's head got in the way. In real time, you hardly realise anything has happened, and even the commentators thought the problem was Scully hitting his head on the ground. The MRP has taken a harsh view of things this week. So it goes.

[ernie koala]

It was a swinging arm, with clenched fist.... he was looking to hit him somewhere.

As it turned out, it was to the side of the head putting Scully out for the game with concussion....And he looked sick to me.

It seems pretty clear to me, and I doubt very much the Swans will appeal.

[Bloodthirsty]

OK. This is ridiculous. 4 WEEKS for that is a joke. Getting struck like that wouldn't hurt a grandma. It was Scully hitting his head on the ground because he fell into it face-first that caused his concussion, plain and simple. Reckless, low-medium impact, 1 week. If the MRP want to lash out with gross over-reactions to their own prior incompetence, then cut out one square foot of the SCG turf and suspend it for 4 weeks. For 4 weeks there would be a little square patch of dirt on the SCG.

One word: Mckernan.

I will be very disappointed if the Swans don't front up with a QC pointing out the obvious, to at least get this down to 1 maybe 2 weeks.

BTW - I can't stand Mark Fraser, MRP chairman. His annoying pseudo-calm matter-of-fact demeanor ruining people's seasons with illogical and inconsistent reasoning makes me want to strike him intentionally, high contact, high impact.

[Jeffers1984]

The alternate angle of the incident clearly shows Mcglynn hitting Scullys face flush with a clenched fist. Don't know why the Swans website doesnt show that particular footage.

Stupid act.

Deserves the holiday.

[annew]

The alternate angle of the incident clearly shows Mcglynn hitting Scullys face flush with a clenched fist. Don't know why the Swans website doesnt show that particular footage.

Stupid act.

Deserves the holiday.

Where is the alternate angle vision

[707]

Stupid act but harshly dealt with, particularly when the McKernan dog act was given a pathetic three weeks.

Agree with you Bloodthirsty on Mark Fraser, like your comment - four weeks for your hit on him!

Think Benny would have had a couple out with the hammy anyway so doubt we'll appeal.

[Jeffers1984]

Where is the alternate angle vision

It was shown during the match i believe in the 3rd quarter and most likely at the end of the game.

[Plugger46]

Dog act. Deserves every bit of the 4 weeks. If one of our blokes had been hit like that, we'd all be going berserk.

McKernan's was assessed incorrectly in my opinion but that's another story.

[Jeffers1984]

Dog act. Deserves every bit of the 4 weeks. If one of our blokes had been hit like that, we'd all be going berserk.

Exactly. Extremely poor disgraceful act from Mcglynn.
I can imagine the uproar if someone did that to a Hannebery or Jack taking him out for the rest of the game like Scully was.

- - - Updated - - -

I've uploaded the alternate angle (well slow mo version of it)

[Xie Shan]

I didn't pick it up on the initial replay they showed, and wondered what the MRP was on about, but there was definitely a swinging arm, totally unnecessary and deserved a holiday.

[Bloodthirsty]

I didn't pick it up on the initial replay they showed, and wondered what the MRP was on about, but there was definitely a swinging arm, totally unnecessary and deserved a holiday.

Yeah not a 4 week holiday. Scully was concussed because he landed on his face, not because of the force of McGlynn's arm.