Maynard incident > Maynard rule > Brayshaw retirement

[think positive]

since Maynard was supposed to change direction in mid air, no question as to why the other player didnt adjust direction?

its an accident for christ sake

[stoliboy]

[Ronnie McKeowns boots]

What a $$%^%%$ joke, Lethal Leigh and Dermie, want Bruzza suspended, two of the biggest thugs who ever played footy, yeh, great players but bloody thugs, Lethal dropped a geelong player cold, Bruns I recall and faced criminal police charges, him of all people. what a total **** this is now, a bleeding kangaroo court now. Getting real angry now, real **** off bigtime now.

I’m saying this honestly, I genuinely think that Matthews and Brereton’s views are based on guilt. They look back now at some of the brutal acts that they committed on the footy field, many of them within the rules of the day (not all though) and they feel ashamed. Ashamed at the harm they caused and the damage they did to other players. Stuff that would today see them publicly labelled as thugs and outcast from football society. Stuff that was seen as hard acts by hard men to win at all costs. Stuff that now no longer passes the Pub Test. .....

I agree entirely, no bigger zealot than a convert, and you would have to be less than human to not regret some of the thuggery they conducted, and hence condoned and endorsed.

Was watching this clip recently, illustrates my point:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97EYttnXWY0

Effing disgraceful

[Ronnie McKeowns boots]

Take it all the way to the friggin Supreme Court, Carlton would.

Can you still go to the Privy Council in London. Just get it adjourned until November.

Not since 1986 apparently....

[stoliboy]

AFL outlines Maynard's alternate options

AFL counsel Andrew Woods is continuing to explain why it was unreasonable to smother in this instance.

"It's the speed at which the leap forward occurs and the fact there is no attempt to slow or make that trajectory higher rather than more forward.

"A player in this situation who wants to smother, it might just be too unsafe to do so, because of the forward trajectory.

"Other options that were available were he could have made a more upright jump … that's an obvious example where you could lessen impact.

"Had his hands come down and braced … it would have logically cushioned the blow."

- Michael Whiting

[magpieazza]

There is a new level of hate towards Caroline Wilson after her non sensical drivel she spewed out on Footy Classified.

I tried hard to respect her because she sometimes has merit but this has tipped it over the edge. She is delusional!!

She even tried to debunk Kane Cornes valid point of highlighting the fact that a knee to the head while marking should be looked at IF the AFL is going down this road of holding the head as sacrosanct through Non football acts, responsibility, duty of care blah blah blah...

<snip - let's just leave this here. Thanks, BBMods.>

[Ronnie McKeowns boots]

This smacks to me of the time Bux was suspended on the eve of the finals for backtalking to the umpires.

The penalty for dissent was then a fine.

But they simply ignored that and suspended him anyway.

Never underestimate the malice for our club out there.

You sure about that? As far as I recall, the only time Buckley was ever suspended was for the famous "blood" incident with Cameron Ling.

He was fined $3000 afterwards for making a fairly innocuous remark about the tribunal case:

https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/buc ... duetc.html

Don't let the truth get in the way David!

[robevpau1]

'Biomechanist: Once airbone, Maynard had no opportunity to avoid the collision'

[Gerry Cooper]

They are emphasizing the "reckless" angle by the look of it. He'll end up with a week I reckon.

[RudeBoy]

Hmmmm.......I'm with David.

[lazzadesilva]

I never stop learning. So now people can jump in the air, get a perspective on how things are looking, plan very carefully to incorporate duty of care aspects on your drop defying gravity enough to give you this time, make sure that you definitely have a soft landing and don’t let your body, hands, legs or any part of your flesh tough any opposition player. If you attempt to take a high mark, preferably drop the ball and avoid falling on your opponent at all cost. You could break their finger nails otherwise and you’d be hauled up in front of our very own Iron Lady The honourable Miss Laura Kane who will initiate action to punish you severely. At all times keep your hands to yourself instead of being bloody stupid and tackling anyone. Always remember to keep Miss Kane happy and content so that she doesn’t need to use your case to hang her hat on the AFL ladder climb. From now on this will be AFL footy life

[David]

Live updates from the hearing here: https://twitter.com/DavidZita1/status/1 ... 8192201936

(I think with the new Twitter you have to log in to see replies, i.e. the live updates posted underneath this first post.)

[think positive]

They are emphasizing the "reckless" angle by the look of it. He'll end up with a week I reckon.

Should be nothing but like barryhall, a week we can fight

[swoop42]

N. Riewoldt and J. Brown took 2 mark of the year winners running back with the flight of the ball, leaping to mark it on their chest and all the while opponents were rushing at them from the opposite direction.

That could have ended in a similar outcome.

I don't really see the distinction between leaping in desperation to smother a ball and leaping with a desire to mark it.

It was a footy act and an accident.

[jonmac1954]

This is an officially sanctioned AFL function chaired and adjudged by participants hand picked by the AFL.

Anyone expecting actual common sense or worse legal sense is bound to be bitterly disappointed.