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someone asked last night
yes Cornes got points for elbow on Jason
Port Adelaide’s Cornes can also accept a reprimand if he accepts his striking charge against St Kilda’s Jason Blake from Saturday’s night game at AAMI Stadium.
If he takes the reprimand, Cornes will have 93.75 demerit points, meaning that he will almost certainly face a suspension if he offends again.
dumb bastard should not accept and take the risk.
he's prob gonna miss a few weeks anyway because of those busted fingers.
if he gets one or two games it wont matter because of the injury.
why have the points over your head?
specially seeing as he is a firey kinda guy and is bound to do something stoopid the next time he gets niggled by someone like baker for example
ok maybe im looking at it wrong but if he accepts an early plea and has points hanging over his head, he then sits out for a few weeks because of injury, then comes back and does something really petty and gets weeks for it because of the points hanging over his head.
or dont plead, take the penalty that will be dished out and sit on the sidelines anyway because of the injury and then come back with no points over his head?
i mean really there was nothing in the hit on blake anyway....IMO
Cornes given one-week ban
29/04/2008 9:36:00 PM
Sportal
Port Adelaide star Chad Cornes has been given a one-match ban at the AFL tribunal on Tuesday night.
Cornes was attempting to fight a striking charge against St Kilda's Jason Blake arising from the first quarter of Port Adelaide's round six clash against the Saints.
In attempting to fight the charge, Cornes said that the blow to Blake was merely a shove, but the AFL ruled otherwise and outed the star utility for one game.
http://www.foxsports.com.au/story/0,865 ... 11,00.html
The only downside for Cornes out of his tribunal visit was that the one-match ban will mean a 10 per cent penalty loading if he commits another offence within the next three years.
matrixcutter wrote:dumb bastard should not accept and take the risk.
he's prob gonna miss a few weeks anyway because of those busted fingers. if he gets one or two games it wont matter because of the injury.
why have the points over your head?
specially seeing as he is a firey kinda guy and is bound to do something stoopid the next time he gets niggled by someone like baker for example
Eaxctly...well said.
This is the type of thing that the Saints have to get a lot smarter at.
As you have implied PA did the right thing by not accepting it.
They basically probably new that they would not get off...but this way they ahve deleted the 99 points haning over his head which most likely as 100 points = 1 week would have meant that on any future transgression he would have gained an extra week.
Now he will not.
This was a win win for them...either way they could not lose.
Suspended...they expunge the 99 points. a win for them....and effectively a lesser penalty!!!
Got off...a clear win.
Flying the World in comfort thanks to FF Points....
matrixcutter wrote:dumb bastard should not accept and take the risk.
he's prob gonna miss a few weeks anyway because of those busted fingers. if he gets one or two games it wont matter because of the injury.
why have the points over your head?
specially seeing as he is a firey kinda guy and is bound to do something stoopid the next time he gets niggled by someone like baker for example
Eaxctly...well said.
This is the type of thing that the Saints have to get a lot smarter at.
As you have implied PA did the right thing by not accepting it.
They basically probably new that they would not get off...but this way they ahve deleted the 99 points haning over his head which most likely as 100 points = 1 week would have meant that on any future transgression he would have gained an extra week.
Now he will not.
This was a win win for them...either way they could not lose.
Suspended...they expunge the 99 points. a win for them....and effectively a lesser penalty!!!
Got off...a clear win.
It was clever, the only possible negative is if he is found guilty again in the next 3 years in which case he will cop a 10% loading, that said if he was only up for 1 week he'd still only cop 1 week.
bozza1980 wrote:
It was clever, the only possible negative is if he is found guilty again in the next 3 years in which case he will cop a 10% loading, that said if he was only up for 1 week he'd still only cop 1 week.
So based on that....he would have to cop 10 weeks before he is worse off....
Odds would seem to be in PA's favour.
Flying the World in comfort thanks to FF Points....
bozza1980 wrote:
It was clever, the only possible negative is if he is found guilty again in the next 3 years in which case he will cop a 10% loading, that said if he was only up for 1 week he'd still only cop 1 week.
So based on that....he would have to cop 10 weeks before he is worse off....
Odds would seem to be in PA's favour.
I think it is 10% 'bonus on teh offence posts, so if he were to incur a 370 point penalty it would be increased to 407 points and go from a 3 week penatly to a 4 week penalty.
But it was still a very clever move by PA as they have effectively removed a 90+ carryover points from him whilst he is out injured.
friggin hell they dont make the process of this carry over points percentages previous crap report games tribunal thingy easy to follow huh?
if anyone has a link that shows how all that crap works (the points and all that garbage) could they chuck it in here .....pwetty please
IN A strange twist, Port Adelaide's champion onballer Chad Cornes is better off despite losing at the AFL Tribunal last night. Cornes must carry 25 demerit points instead of 93.75 after being hit with a one-game suspension.
But a badly broken finger would have prevented the Power ace from playing against Essendon at Telstra Dome on Sunday anyway.
And he was ineligible for the Brownlow Medal unless he won his case last night as the base points were more than 100 for striking St Kilda's Jason Blake in the opening quarter last Saturday night.
Cornes could have escaped with a reprimand by pleading guilty to the charge laid by the AFL match review panel, but the 93.75 points would have haunted him for the next 12 months.
So he had nothing to lose by challenging the striking charge because the finger injury will sideline him for at least the next month.
The only downside is the 25 leftover points from the one-match penalty will be added if he is reported again in the next 12 months. And he's liable to a 10 per cent loading on demerit points should he be cited in the next three years.
Flying the World in comfort thanks to FF Points....
