MRO Thread

[bornadog]

Disgraceful from Port

Both Aliir Aliir and Lachie Jones have now been put in the concussion protocol and will miss this week v Geelong. Port Adelaide have been issued with a please explain by the AFL after Aliir was not given a SCAT5 test after his head knock

[Grantysghost]

Disgraceful from Port

Wow. What player would want to go there and be treated like that.

[G-Mo77]

Wow. What player would want to go there and be treated like that.

They'll be held into account for sure. You read our report on Keath and they just used footage to determine not to bring him back on. The vision of Alir is brutal and that alone should have been enough to take him out of the game. It's extremely negligent in this current environment.

[bulldogtragic]

They'll be held into account for sure. You read our report on Keath and they just used footage to determine not to bring him back on. The vision of Alir is brutal and that alone should have been enough to take him out of the game. It's extremely negligent in this current environment.

With a billion dollar brain injury law suit sitting there, if the AFEL don’t send a brutal message to everyone then they are truly dumb. This will be used as evidence as it is in the case, but the AFEL need to show they are not complicit in it. I’m thinking deregistering the doctor’s AFEL accreditation and a $500,000 fine (50% suspended) in bringing the game into disrepute. I’d also hit Hinkley with some sort of a sanction too to send a message to coaches that they need to be even more forceful in similar circumstances, not just take the initial word of the doctor.

I can’t believe Port would expose themselves legally and the AFEL with such absolute recklessness. They’re literally under the microscope if an army of lawyers and then they, on national tv, demonstrate the exact sports medical malpractice being claimed/alleged they’ve been guilty of. The lawyers on the players side couldn’t have wished for a such a smoking gun being served on a platter.

Plus WorkSafe SA should have a look at it too. What’s the point of specific industry OH&S safety protections if Port decide they don’t want to adhere to them?

[bornadog]

With a billion dollar brain injury law suit sitting there, if the AFEL don’t send a brutal message to everyone then they are truly dumb. This will be used as evidence as it is in the case, but the AFEL need to show they are not complicit in it. I’m thinking deregistering the doctor’s AFEL accreditation and a $500,000 fine (50% suspended) in bringing the game into disrepute. I’d also hit Hinkley with some sort of a sanction too to send a message to coaches that they need to be even more forceful in similar circumstances, not just take the initial word of the doctor.

I can’t believe Port would expose themselves legally and the AFEL with such absolute recklessness. They’re literally under the microscope if an army of lawyers and then they, on national tv, demonstrate the exact sports medical malpractice being claimed/alleged they’ve been guilty of. The lawyers on the players side couldn’t have wished for a such a smoking gun being served on a platter.

Plus WorkSafe SA should have a look at it too. What’s the point of specific industry OH&S safety protections if Port decide they don’t want to adhere to them?

Time to have independent doctors at all games

[soupman]

They have form as well. Last season Jonas and Butters had a head clash that was definitely assess worthy late in a close game and they put them both straight back out there.

[bulldogtragic]

Time to have independent doctors at all games

I could see the AFEL giving this a long look.

[Bulldog Revolution]

I see Touk Miller has been cleared from the complaint of attacking Dayne Zorko's groin area.
At least the NRL suspended John 'Stink Fist' Hopoate for his repeated efforts.

Apparently interim Suns coach Stephen King nominated Zorko as a dangerous Brisbane Lions player before the game and as a leader Touk Miller decided to take matters into his own hands.

Zorko has broken the players code to attack Miller.

I find it very rich from one of the dirtiest players of the past decade. Zorko has seven penalties for striking, eye gouging, four misconduct charges and a fine for staging.

And all this given the league is unbelievably soft on suspending players, and Zorko has had loads of elbows, jumper punches, dropping of knees where the league has been lenient with him and ignored it.

[Sedat]

Zorko has broken the players code to attack Miller.

I find it very rich from one of the dirtiest players of the past decade. Zorko has seven penalties for striking, eye gouging, four misconduct charges and a fine for staging.

And all this given the league is unbelievably soft on suspending players, and Zorko has had loads of elbows, jumper punches, dropping of knees where the league has been lenient with him and ignored it.

I'm no Zorko fan and he has previous form with unsavoury acts as you've rightly pointed out, but he has every right to be dirty about the treatment he copped on the weekend from Miller. That shit is on the extreme end of unsavoury - it is totally not on and potentially very dangerous.

[bornadog]

I'm no Zorko fan and he has previous form with unsavoury acts as you've rightly pointed out, but he has every right to be dirty about the treatment he copped on the weekend from Miller. That shit is on the extreme end of unsavoury - it is totally not on and potentially very dangerous.

Whilst agree something like that is a dirty act, not sure if clear cut from vision.

See here

The reason I have doubts is if someone grabbed you by the nuts the way it is described, the pain would be pretty bad, but Zorko seems to be ok when he springs up off the ground.

[Sedat]

Whilst agree something like that is a dirty act, not sure if clear cut from vision.

See here

The reason I have doubts is if someone grabbed you by the nuts the way it is described, the pain would be pretty bad, but Zorko seems to be ok when he springs up off the ground.

We've all played footy and when the hand accidentally comes into close proximity with that particular part of the opposition's anatomy, you move your hand away in a nanosecond. Miller's hand lingered around there longer than 'The Irishman'

[bornadog]

Miller out for one match

[azabob]

Miller out for one match

Odd it wasn’t handed down at the tribunal.

[Rocket Science]

First the bump. Now the squirrel grip.

Nothing's sacred.

[Grantysghost]

First the bump. Now the squirrel grip.

Nothing's sacred.

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