Carlton Supporters Club

THE AFL will appeal downgraded umpire contact findings against Carlton brothers Ed and Charlie Curnow, describing the sanctions imposed as "manifestly inadequate".

The Appeal Board hearing will be held on Thursday at 3pm AEST.

The League will be seeking a suspension for both players after they escaped with $1000 fines on Tuesday night at the Tribunal.

Football operations general manager Steve Hocking made the decision ahead of Wednesday's 12pm deadline to file an appeal.

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Hocking said the AFL had appealed both of the financial sanctions on the grounds that:

    no Tribunal acting reasonably could have come to that decision having regard to the evidence before it
    the sanction imposed was manifestly inadequate.

The Blues pair both successfully argued before the AFL Tribunal that their separate contact incidents in Saturday's game against Essendon were careless and not intentional, and were fined $1000 each rather than suspended.

The brothers had been referred straight to the Tribunal by Match Review Officer Michael Christian, who initially graded both incidents as intentional.

A week earlier Geelong forward Tom Hawkins agreed on a plea deal with AFL counsel, effectively accepting a one-week ban and acknowledging his contact with an umpire was intentional.


Gold Coast co-captain Steven May was cleared on intentional umpire contact at the Tribunal on Monday night, and instead fined $1000 after also successfully arguing his contact was careless.

The AFL confirmed it was not appealing that decision.

"We accepted that decision on the examination of the evidence that was put and chose not to appeal," a League spokesman said.

http://www.afl.com.au/news/2018-05-16/afl-weighs-up-appeal-on-curnow-verdicts

Its the good old Dennis Denuto argument.

Hawkins copped a week, so should the Curnows....

Meanwhile look who's talking.  Buddha Hocking!

Its actually Buddhas brother. The lesser known of the hockings. Former back pocket player for the catters Steve Hocking.

Its actually Buddhas brother. The lesser known of the hockings. Former back pocket player for the catters Steve Hocking.

Seems the AFL believes our club is an easy target and will simply lie down.

Its actually Buddhas brother. The lesser known of the hockings. Former back pocket player for the catters Steve Hocking.

Yep its Steve...is it right that Hocking has the power to ratify all tribunal decisions hence making him the defacto tribunal?

Good test for the President...where is MLG?..........I'm sure Jeffrey Kennett would have been all over the AFL by now.....

Yes our silence all day long has been deafening!

Wasn't he the one responsible for evening up and knocking out Leigh Mathews behind play following Mathews king hitting Bruns of Geelong in 85? Good pedigree in the hitting dept but I guess not against an umpire.