perfectionist wrote: ↑Wed 30 May 2018 8:28pm
The incident with Rance occurred in the last 2 minutes of the game. Breust got up and played out the game. He played the next week against Melbourne. He was not concussed. Just why people make up "facts" to suit their purposes alludes me. There is no doubt that the actions were similar. That's irrelevant. It's the outcome that is important. And in terms of outcome, taking a player out in the first minute of a game, which causes him to miss the remainder of the game is different to doing the same thing in the last minute. People may not like that, but that's the way the MRP ( Christian) is required to view it.
Firstly, Breust was prostrate on the ground just as long as Riewoldt , maybe more - he was shaken up enough that he couldn't take his kick - O'Meara took it
Also quite a few Hawthorn players remonstrated with Rance but not one Richmond player took Carlisle to task over his action - maybe because Rance's hit was a lot later (more intent) whereas Carlisle attempt to spoil was more clumsy but in the moment - Breust also got a 50 / Riewoldt didn't.
Lastly most forumites here probably agree that Carlisle should have got a week - the point is so should have Rance - as he was late and cannoned into Breust's head with just as much force - the fact that he didn't cop him in the perfect knockout sweet spot should be irrevelant.
For one action to be graded low impact and the other high impact is a joke considering the similarities to each hit are close enough bang on the same - to have such a gulf in penalties just because one player is maybe more robust than another or one hit was one inch lower than the other is extremely problematic.
The unfortunate scenario that may now start to pervade into the competition is whereby players fake knock outs / concussion to get the offending player suspended - especially late in the game when there team is well ahead or far behind that it would not matter if the hit player sat out the rest of the game.
This could may well happen in a Semi Final whereby a player fakes being knocked out to get the opposition player suspended from the subsequent Grand Final for the fact that their team might have to play the suspended player's team again.