The Monday Soap Box - Round Five

[azabob]

How did Zak Butters not get one week for his bump to Bailey Banfields jaw?

[Scorlibo]

The thing that frustrated me is that when you include the rest of Brisbane's submissions (lack of force, clear medical report, Lever having an arm free/being able to protect himself), and leave out the 'Good Citizen' submissions, that SHOULD, in theory, have been enough to downgrade the suspension to a fine.

Instead, by accepting Brisbane's submissions in full, the Tribunal has just kicked over a MASSIVE hornets nest, and in doing so, created ANOTHER problem that Laura Kane now has to try and sort out.

I feel sorry for Laura. So much of the work she's doing at the moment seems to be sorting out the messes her predecessors left for her to clean up. In this case, the Tribunal guidelines that Adrian Anderson drew up while he was Football Operations Manager have now been exploited by none other than Adrian himself.

Totally agree.

The good citizen defence is flawed, and is often simply a 'good player' defence in disguise. AFL 360 brought up a list of players with similarly good records, it was a small army of players, some never to have been cited. Many of those players wouldn't get off because they've a lower profile.

Lever had an arm free and added whole egg mayo to the head contact. We should be talking about players putting their own health in jeopardy.