#AFL Finals Week 1 weekly discussion thread

[Danzar]

Yep. Hope he goes a row of outhouses.

Agree!

[Sandridge]

Quite the little grub, isn't he? The sort of stuff you seen in wrestling matches, only he did it for real.

Even looked up to see if the "referee" was watching before he did it.

[stellation]

Suckling (and Kelly!) can consider himself very lucky to be walking away with just a $2k fine, the action was particularly nasty and it was fortunate for all involved that Kelly had bent down a little further than normal to collect the ball.

The Greene thing looks bad- Jed Lamb got a week for making contact to an eye last season, so you'd assume he'll be gone at least next weekend. I can't see him actually make contact to the eye in that footage, so assume they'll ask Bont what happened- no shame if he doesn't stay silent on this, no need for fingers anywhere near someone's eyes.

[barry]

Contact to the face has historically been a fine or a week in H&A.
Be interesting to see how this plays out.

Suckling high contact was also a week or fine, and they chose a fine.

GWS should lawyer up because the media seem out for blood.

[AnnieH]

SOOOOOOOOOOOOO happy to see that little grub Greene going straight to tribunal in week one of the finals.
You know you're a grub when the AFL have to make a new rule specifically targeting your using the studs of your boot to rearrange people's faces.
Hope the little thug gets a month.

[KTigers]

Suckling (and Kelly!) can consider himself very lucky to be walking away with just a $2k fine, the action was particularly nasty and it was fortunate for all involved that Kelly had bent down a little further than normal to collect the ball.

The Greene thing looks bad- Jed Lamb got a week for making contact to an eye last season, so you'd assume he'll be gone at least next weekend. I can't see him actually make contact to the eye in that footage, so assume they'll ask Bont what happened- no shame if he doesn't stay silent on this, no need for fingers anywhere near someone's eyes.

I guess we'll see if Bontempelli can give (his late hit on Haynes that fractured Hayne's larynx, and caused Haynes to miss a week
that Bontempelli got off on a ridiculous technicality) but he can't receive. A number of GWS players went after Bontempelli presumably
as some kind of payback for the injury he caused to Haynes in R22.

[Swanny40519]

SOOOOOOOOOOOOO happy to see that little grub Greene going straight to tribunal in week one of the finals.
You know you're a grub when the AFL have to make a new rule specifically targeting your using the studs of your boot to rearrange people's faces.
Hope the little thug gets a month.

Agree. Trying to poke a player in the eye is not a joke. Can cause serious damage. Poor, poor Toby just cannot control himself.

[Bloods05]

SOOOOOOOOOOOOO happy to see that little grub Greene going straight to tribunal in week one of the finals.
You know you're a grub when the AFL have to make a new rule specifically targeting your using the studs of your boot to rearrange people's faces.
Hope the little thug gets a month.

What we're dealing with here is the persecution complex. Those who are afflicted by it are blind to the reality of what they are seeing, so the perceived inconsistency or bias of the AFL assumes greater importance than a bloke sticking his fingers into someone's eyes.

[Bloods05]

Agree. Trying to poke a player in the eye is not a joke. Can cause serious damage. Poor, poor Toby just cannot control himself.

Oh, he can control himself all right. That's why he doesn't kick people in the guts any more. If he knows he'll be penalised, he stops doing it. In this case, he made sure the worst of it wasn't picked up by the cameras. He knows exactly what he's doing. He should get weeks if not months, but most likely he'll get a fine or one week at worst.

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I guess we'll see if Bontempelli can give (his late hit on Haynes that fractured Hayne's larynx, and caused Haynes to miss a week
that Bontempelli got off on a ridiculous technicality) but he can't receive. A number of GWS players went after Bontempelli presumably
as some kind of payback for the injury he caused to Haynes in R22.

Or maybe just because they're thugs following the instructions of a thuggish coach. Sometimes the obvious explanation is the right one.

[barry]

I guess we'll see if Bontempelli can give (his late hit on Haynes that fractured Hayne's larynx, and caused Haynes to miss a week
that Bontempelli got off on a ridiculous technicality) but he can't receive. A number of GWS players went after Bontempelli presumably
as some kind of payback for the injury he caused to Haynes in R22.

I could just imagine mummy saying to bont:
"You shouldn't even be playing, so as soon as we get to an unwinnable position, I'm going to break your jaw"

On the greene case, I wonder if can get suspension credits since they have reversed the studs up rule as soon as a high profile Victorian got done for it.

[redsox]

SOOOOOOOOOOOOO happy to see that little grub Greene going straight to tribunal in week one of the finals.
You know you're a grub when the AFL have to make a new rule specifically targeting your using the studs of your boot to rearrange people's faces.
Hope the little thug gets a month.

pathetic

[KTigers]

Oh, he can control himself all right. That's why he doesn't kick people in the guts any more. If he knows he'll be penalised, he stops doing it. In this case, he made sure the worst of it wasn't picked up by the cameras. He knows exactly what he's doing. He should get weeks if not months, but most likely he'll get a fine or one week at worst.

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Or maybe just because they're thugs following the instructions of a thuggish coach. Sometimes the obvious explanation is the right one.

Who knows what Cameron told them. Pity Longmire didn't saying anything to the Swans when they all sat around watching Mills get beat
up by the entire Carlton a couple years ago.

[Bloods05]

Who knows what Cameron told them. Pity Longmire didn't saying anything to the Swans when they all sat around watching Mills get beat
up by the entire Carlton a couple years ago.

You ask who knows what Cameron said, yet you know what Longmire didn't say. How so?

Thuggery ain't footy.

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pathetic

What is?

[KSAS]

Loving seeing the dogs get thrashed. Even with the umpires help. So satisfying

Yep, I was so happy seeing the Dogs get pounded!

[KTigers]

I could just imagine mummy saying to bont:
"You shouldn't even be playing, so as soon as we get to an unwinnable position, I'm going to break your jaw"

On the greene case, I wonder if can get suspension credits since they have reversed the studs up rule as soon as a high profile Victorian got done for it.

This is a good point. I brought this up earlier. The lengths that the AFL will go to avoid sanctioning protected species like Reiwoldt & Bontempelli
are extraordinary.