Scollop wrote: ↑Tue 30 Apr 2024 9:46pm
They're calling it a dangerous tackle due to Jack rotating Allir. So in their eyes it's a sling tackle.
Watch Higgins body and arms.
Do not fix your eyes on Allir's body or his head slamming the ground
Does Jack twist his own body or change direction with the way he brings Aliir to the ground?
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BUMP
Did the umpire on the night get it wrong?
There were 4 field umpires for that game - Leigh Haussen (5), Simon Meredith (21), Nathan Williamson (22), Andrew Heffernan (29)
Heffernan is the youngest and most inexperienced out of ALL 4 who were umpiring on the night
I believe it was Heffernan who called out 'dangerous tackle' and awarded the free to Port.
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When you watch the official footage (and not the doctored footage which has been going around that somehow tries to implicate a slinging action) you see that it's not a sling tackle at all.
We know umpires make mistakes. We know the AFL has come out and apoligised for the howlers. This was not a clear cut howler of a mistake, but it had serious implications. The fact that the umpire calls 'dangerous tackle' and the fact that we're in this environment of concussion and the fact that Aliir hits his head ... has triggered the MRO to clumsily and hastily slap a 3 week sanction on Higgins.
In the split secoind that Heffernan had to make a call, he erred on the side of awarding Aliir the free kick. That's fair enough.
If Aliir
doesn't attempt to kick the footy while he's horizontal,
he may not have hit his head, and therefore a free would have been paid to St Kilda. This needed to be a consideration from the MRO but it wasn't. He has evidence he can watch in slow motion.
He probably didn't
I'm pissed off that we had to accept the lie that Higgins rotated Aliir prior to Aliir attempting to kick the footy. The evidence shows there was no slinging action prior to Aliir attempting to kick the ball while horizonal. Instead of words, our team needed to focus on the vision
We were incompetent in fighting the charge and we were negligent in protecting our players from incompetent MRO rulings which impact their form and the team's performance