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Re: Round 12: Carlton vs. Port Adelaide - Post match celebrations

Reply #150 –
You could argue about whether he should've got 3 or 2, but I think he needed to get something. If it was Gray tackling Gibbs like this, we'd be screaming blue murder.

As long as the AFL applies the same standards for all players, then fine. Not that they have a great track record on this, but we live in hope.

Re: Re: Round 12: Carlton vs. Port Adelaide - Post match celebrations

Reply #151 –
Quote from: PassIt2Carrots on
Spot on. Next time just smack the bloke in the head.

They really need to look at intent when applying these decisions.  The fact that you can clobber someone and get 3 weeks, yet lay a tackle (within the rules) and get the same is just idiotic. 

Re: Round 12: Carlton vs. Port Adelaide - Post match celebrations

Reply #152 –
Quote from: PaulP on
You could argue about whether he should've got 3 or 2, but I think he needed to get something. If it was Gray tackling Gibbs like this, we'd be screaming blue murder.

As long as the AFL applies the same standards for all players, then fine. Not that they have a great track record on this, but we live in hope.

1 week would have been sufficient

Re: Round 12: Carlton vs. Port Adelaide - Post match celebrations

Reply #153 –
Quote from: age on
1 week would have been sufficient

I certainly think you could make a reasonable case for 2 weeks, reduced to 1 with a guilty plea.

Re: Round 12: Carlton vs. Port Adelaide - Post match celebrations

Reply #154 –
Just another piece of knee-jerk anti Blues crape from the AFL, stoked up by biased sections of the media - yet again true to form, never expected anything less.  >:(

The AFL really are a bl00dy disgrace!
Reality always wins in the end.

Re: Round 12: Carlton vs. Port Adelaide - Post match celebrations

Reply #155 –
trengrove got 3 weeks for a similar

Re: Round 12: Carlton vs. Port Adelaide - Post match celebrations

Reply #156 –
How many weeks did that juiced up bomber get for the drive tackle on Carrazzo that broke his collarbone?
2012 HAPPENED!!!!!!!

Re: Round 12: Carlton vs. Port Adelaide - Post match celebrations

Reply #157 –
The umpires didn't lay a report or even pay a free kick!

Outside of a few spuds like Bartlett and Dwayne making a big stink, most thought Gibbs had no case to answer.

Which media types are sitting on the MRP this week?
The Force Awakens!

Re: Round 12: Carlton vs. Port Adelaide - Post match celebrations

Reply #158 –
Hope the AFL is ready to out half of Hawthorns team every week, Joel Selwood and Nat Fyfe cause I've watched them perform the same tackle every week.

Gray was not concussed, according to Ken Hinkley he was kept of for precautionary measures only.

Riccuito was baying for blood before the stretcher was off the field.

Re: Round 12: Carlton vs. Port Adelaide - Post match celebrations

Reply #159 –
Quote from: madbluboy on
How many weeks did that juiced up bomber get for the drive tackle on Carrazzo that broke his collarbone?

From memory, none.

Re: Round 12: Carlton vs. Port Adelaide - Post match celebrations

Reply #160 –


Is that a free arm?
2012 HAPPENED!!!!!!!

Re: Re: Round 12: Carlton vs. Port Adelaide - Post match celebrations

Reply #161 –
Where did you get that from? He has clearly opted to keep hold of the ball and brace for contact.
Ignorance is bliss.

ONWARDS AND UPWARDS!

Re: Round 12: Carlton vs. Port Adelaide - Post match celebrations

Reply #163 –
Finally got to watch the whole game.

Great improved effort from the team, with the tackling in particular quite fierce. Tended to get their bodies engaged more in tackles rather than just grasping with their arms.

Best players for me were Murphy, Cripps, Bell and Rowe. Other good contributions from Gibbs, Docherty, Buckley, Henderson, Casboult, Everitt, Graham and Yarren.  Quite a few players drifted in and oht of the games, but the best players stuck at it the whole game.

We still had 100+ points kicked against us, when Schultz and westhoff had poor games, suggesting our defence still needs alot of work. But good run and carry out of half back and a preference for finding targets in the middle rather than thumping it along the lines.

In two minds about the Gibbs tackle, but the means of determining such incidents is a mess by the AFL. No proper tribunal would use the effect on the player as a primary determinant of a penalty. Did he break the rules? If the answer is no then he has no case to answer. 3 weeks is excessive for an act that was within the rules, and was without intent. Appropriate would be a few points to carry over as a warning to take a little more care. Club should appeal immediately.

Re: Round 12: Carlton vs. Port Adelaide - Post match celebrations

Reply #164 –
Come on blues, season is gone. Challenge this, we're talking about a game against Richmond at risk. Let the players know their club is behind them  >:D >:D >:D