was the bump fair, no elbow or hit to the head? If so then yes!plugger66 wrote:So you are happy if Rooy is minding his own business on the mark and half a second after play on is called he is taken out. A team gets away with that so the next week a team takes out 2 of our players. I played footy for 15 years but I was never taught to take out a player as soon as play on was called.Solar wrote:agree totally with this.... If it's a fair bump and during play then it's play on. Plugger66 the umpire, saw it, called play on. The player was not on the mark as there was no mark anymore. Thats the facts.... the decision was bulls*** and goes against all we ever have been taught about how to play the game.....True Believer wrote:So your stance now plunger is that there is a polite period of grace after the whistle is blown, during which our boys should not bump the opposition so as not to cause them any nasty bruises ???
The whistle goes and it is on, 1 second or 10 seconds, it is not relevant. Once the whistle is blown, expect contact. And you also seem to be implying that our boys should exercise restraint and hold back on the intensity, again to avoid bruising the delicate little flowers on the opposition.
The only issue I have with this, is that if the shoe were on the other foot, and one of our blokes got a great bump like that, that you would be taking the stance that "it's a fair bump and we need to harden up and simply move on". Do you actually support St Kilda and follow aussie rules? That was one of the best bumps this year by one of our guys and it is a disgraceful decision, particularly given the outcomes of other cases thus far this year for things like punchung and head-butting, which are clearly outside the rules!!
So from now on you have to wait 3 seconds... c'mon boys count to three before you run and bump and create spce for your team mates. I hope those with the ball get three seconds "to be ready" for a tackle or bump. I have rarely seen a player get badly hurt from a legal bump, seen heaps get hurt badly from elbows and even more knees go in tackles....
So in all seriosness, did zac have to wait for the crows player to sprint forward 10 metres before he bumped him fairly? Whats a reasonable amount of time to give a player once the umpire calls play on.
Funny thing is that if he blocked the crows player he would have given away a free, we would have all cried "stupid thing to do". He does the right thing, lands a very good bump that is legal, no free kick, creates time for his team mate... and gets more weeks then punches and head butts.....
nah keep digging yourself a nice big hole
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