Mcphee one week!! a joke

[stinger]

...as someone who sat on an afl affiliated tribunal for many years and chaired it for the last couple of years,

What's an AFL affiliated tribunal?
A local footy tribunal?

a tribunal for a league affiliated with the afl....

[stinger]

The bottom line is, that the AFL have created an organisation that is confusing. It doesn't make sense.


They push the rich clubs to get richer. But then they throw money at the poor clubs.
What is crazy about it is, that by the rich clubs getting richer in the way the AFL are encouraging it - it comes at the expense of the other clubs.

Anzac Day is a case in point. That schedule alone, tips the scales so heavily in the favour of Collingwood and Essendon, on so many levels.

But the AFL don't touch that. Instead they let that ridicilously unfair situation occur - but then hand out cash to battling clubs!

It's bordering on moronic.


It's the equivalent of giving battlers the dole each month but not letting them go to Uni.
They're never going anywhere as long as that sort of thing is allowed to happen.


And then they rob the clubs in need of critical Draft picks to introduce new clubs! But then now announce they going to give some money to the battlers to help them survive!

That the hell is it that they're trying to actually achieve??!!

you want to know something.....you talk sense...

but i'm betting you already knew that.....

[Winmar]

The old tribunal system did not work very well at all, so I was very glad when they brought in the current system. I liked the NRL one that it copied. However, the application of the system has been imperfect, to put it mildly. There's so much inconsistency nobody knows what's going on. Remember Judd's elbow to Pavlich's head last year that he got with? I just don't understand.

[matrix]

im not even going to read the four pages
give me who is for the
'it was a good call'
and who is siding with the, 'this is beyond a joke now"

seriously 2 weeks for that
and roo was given 3

diff?
crows player unlucky enough to bust his jaw on roos shoulder
gilbert lucky mcphee hit him in the sweet spot with only his bicep and not his elbow/forearm and got no injury

but if the same act CAN and USUALLY causes serious injury, shouldnt the actual act be friggin punished hard?

ffs
nuffies
who is on the MRP?

[Winmar]

Isn't Stewie Loewe on it? I have a feeling he is, but I hope I'm wrong.

[plugger66]

...as someone who sat on an afl affiliated tribunal for many years and chaired it for the last couple of years,

What's an AFL affiliated tribunal?
A local footy tribunal?

a tribunal for a league affiliated with the afl....

Of course you did. It was the CFL. Do you know Peter Carey?

[Leo.J]

The MRP know that certain clubs will make more noise and will be higher maintenance, so they lift their effort and make sure the really silly lazy reviews only happen for lower clubs. If Daisy had been hit it would be on talk back all week.

I think it's more about the terrible system, than the MRP themselves.

It's just another in a long line of stuff ups by the AFL.


They're outlawing tackling and contact that is part and parcel of a contact sport - yet almost accepting thuggery as part of the game!

It's just bizarre really.

There are over a 1000 tackles a game compared to 300 in the 60's and 70's when the game was apparently tough but in actual fact was slow with a few gutless players running around hitting guys behind play. The would also be more bumps now than back then. They used to shepherd by putting their hands out wide now they bump and ran about twice as fast as back then. The game is tougher than ever and because of how hard they hit they have changed the rule about head contact. Rooy was very unlucky and McPhee was very lucky but the game is still a very hard game and probably getting physically tougher every year.

You're a classic Plugger, you put people to task on here for being one eyed in supporting a club on a fan forum.

Yet you are so protective, one eyed in fact of anything the AFL does.

Once an umpire always an umpire I suppose.

Why because i think the game is still as tough as it has ever been? Silly comment. I didnt put anyone down, I pointed out that what the person said was clearly wrong based on facts and also watching the game and listening to current and older players. What being an umpire has to do with how tough I think the game is is very hard to understand. Can you advise me why being an umpire has to do with what I think about the game. I am unsure what your involvement has been in the game but surely being just a watcher means you should have an opinion as well. Should I knock you for only being a watcher?

And the only person I see sticking up for the Saints in these quotes is me.

Plugger you appear to be missing the point.

People believe that the McPhee decision is another example of the AFL screwing things up with inconsistencies.

And the fact that you support the AFL and the establishment in general blindly is no suprise as you are an umpire.

[stinger]

The MRP know that certain clubs will make more noise and will be higher maintenance, so they lift their effort and make sure the really silly lazy reviews only happen for lower clubs. If Daisy had been hit it would be on talk back all week.

I think it's more about the terrible system, than the MRP themselves.

It's just another in a long line of stuff ups by the AFL.


They're outlawing tackling and contact that is part and parcel of a contact sport - yet almost accepting thuggery as part of the game!

It's just bizarre really.

There are over a 1000 tackles a game compared to 300 in the 60's and 70's when the game was apparently tough but in actual fact was slow with a few gutless players running around hitting guys behind play. The would also be more bumps now than back then. They used to shepherd by putting their hands out wide now they bump and ran about twice as fast as back then. The game is tougher than ever and because of how hard they hit they have changed the rule about head contact. Rooy was very unlucky and McPhee was very lucky but the game is still a very hard game and probably getting physically tougher every year.

You're a classic Plugger, you put people to task on here for being one eyed in supporting a club on a fan forum.

Yet you are so protective, one eyed in fact of anything the AFL does.

Once an umpire always an umpire I suppose.

Why because i think the game is still as tough as it has ever been? Silly comment. I didnt put anyone down, I pointed out that what the person said was clearly wrong based on facts and also watching the game and listening to current and older players. What being an umpire has to do with how tough I think the game is is very hard to understand. Can you advise me why being an umpire has to do with what I think about the game. I am unsure what your involvement has been in the game but surely being just a watcher means you should have an opinion as well. Should I knock you for only being a watcher?

And the only person I see sticking up for the Saints in these quotes is me.

Plugger you appear to be missing the point.

People believe that the McPhee decision is another example of the AFL screwing things up with inconsistencies.

And the fact that you support the AFL and the establishment in general blindly is no suprise as you are an umpire.

no..that is not quite right.....he claims to be an umpire,,,big difference....

[plugger66]

The MRP know that certain clubs will make more noise and will be higher maintenance, so they lift their effort and make sure the really silly lazy reviews only happen for lower clubs. If Daisy had been hit it would be on talk back all week.

I think it's more about the terrible system, than the MRP themselves.

It's just another in a long line of stuff ups by the AFL.


They're outlawing tackling and contact that is part and parcel of a contact sport - yet almost accepting thuggery as part of the game!

It's just bizarre really.

There are over a 1000 tackles a game compared to 300 in the 60's and 70's when the game was apparently tough but in actual fact was slow with a few gutless players running around hitting guys behind play. The would also be more bumps now than back then. They used to shepherd by putting their hands out wide now they bump and ran about twice as fast as back then. The game is tougher than ever and because of how hard they hit they have changed the rule about head contact. Rooy was very unlucky and McPhee was very lucky but the game is still a very hard game and probably getting physically tougher every year.

You're a classic Plugger, you put people to task on here for being one eyed in supporting a club on a fan forum.

Yet you are so protective, one eyed in fact of anything the AFL does.

Once an umpire always an umpire I suppose.

Why because i think the game is still as tough as it has ever been? Silly comment. I didnt put anyone down, I pointed out that what the person said was clearly wrong based on facts and also watching the game and listening to current and older players. What being an umpire has to do with how tough I think the game is is very hard to understand. Can you advise me why being an umpire has to do with what I think about the game. I am unsure what your involvement has been in the game but surely being just a watcher means you should have an opinion as well. Should I knock you for only being a watcher?

And the only person I see sticking up for the Saints in these quotes is me.

Plugger you appear to be missing the point.

People believe that the McPhee decision is another example of the AFL screwing things up with inconsistencies.

And the fact that you support the AFL and the establishment in general blindly is no suprise as you are an umpire.

no..that is not quite right.....he claims to be an umpire,,,big difference....

At least i tell the truth about being an umpire and know the rules. You on the other hand pretend to be a lawyer and make a fool of yourself by knowing nothing about the law. When you were a member of the CFL( cleaners football league) did you pretend to know something about football. My guess is yes but thety would have found you out.

ffs cleaner rolling eyes old.

[BigMart]

Same old....

[degruch]

...two guys who never learnt to do anything useful in life, like tap dancing or juggling, arguing over fake persona's...anyone would think this was an online forum or sommat!

[Dr Spaceman]

This is likely to actually go on longer than McPhee's suspension

[saintbrat]

Isn't Stewie Loewe on it? I have a feeling he is, but I hope I'm wrong.

he is on rotation on the Tribunal- not the mRP-- I think

[Winmar]

Ah thanks for the info. Glad to hear he's not on the MRP!

[matrix]

yeah
tried googling various ways but couldnt find out who was on it

[Mr Magic]

yeah
tried googling various ways but couldnt find out who was on it

I think Andrew McKay (former Carlton player) used to be the chairman, until he resigned a year ago?
I think it is now chaired by Mark Fraser (former Pie, Bomber and Umpire)?

Without knowing their exact criteria when viewing incidents, it appears to me (and obviously many others) that they have very little understanding of what actually took place in many incidents when viewing that video.