Briefly:
The controversy over policing and penalties round tackling has fired up once more, as three gamers search to problem three-match bans on the AFL Tribunal.
The Lions’ Charlie Cameron and the Giants’ Toby Bedford have been banned for tough conduct in tackles, whereas Gold Coast’s Alex Davies was suspended for making forceful front-on contact.
What’s subsequent?:
There are six matches left within the home-and-away season, and Cameron, Bedford and Davies will miss half of it until they’ll overturn their suspensions.
AFL gamers have expressed frustration across the policing of tackling after Brisbane’s Charlie Cameron and GWS ahead Toby Bedford have been slapped with three-match bans for making “good” tackles.
Cameron, Bedford and Gold Coast midfielder Alex Davies are all difficult their three-match bans on the AFL Tribunal on Tuesday night time.
Gun ahead Cameron is because of miss crunch matches in opposition to Sydney, Gold Coast and St Kilda after he ran in to sort out West Coast’s Liam Duggan and drove the Eagles co-captain backwards.
Duggan hit the again of his head on the turf and was subbed out of Sunday’s sport with concussion.
The incident was assessed as careless conduct, extreme affect and excessive contact, drawing a three-match ban.
Brisbane teammate Josh Dunkley did not assume Cameron may have accomplished something to vary the result.
“It is a powerful one. I used to be proper there as a participant and I clearly did not know the result of what occurred to Duggan, however I believed it was the proper sort out,” Dunkley mentioned on Tuesday.
“I used to be telling him, he was a bit rattled by it immediately, however I mentioned, and the umpire, everybody was saying on the time that it was an ideal sort out.
“So it is a very harsh penalty, however I imply, what do you do? It is exhausting to know as a participant lately.
“Personally I am going into tackles now apprehensive about what the result’s going to be.
“So that you’re very hesitant in what you are doing and I really feel like that is going to affect everybody throughout the competitors as a result of guys are going to probably maintain again a bit bit, and I do not know if that is what we wish.”
GWS are difficult Bedford’s rough-conduct ban, which was graded the identical as Cameron’s.
Bedford pinned Tim Taranto’s arms in a fourth-quarter sort out and the Richmond midfielder’s head hit the bottom because the pair fell ahead.
Taranto appeared dazed when he obtained up and didn’t go a concussion check.
Giants defender Lachie Whitfield expressed comparable emotions to Dunkley.
“We’re all a bit shocked by the three weeks,” Whitfeld mentioned. “Once I learn that … I used to be actually astonished.
“We try to keep away from the top knocks and the tackles and all that, and I perceive that there is a obligation of look after the participant, however there’s solely a lot you are able to do in (Bedford’s) state of affairs.
“He is accomplished just about the proper sort out and his complete physique’s within the air, and he is obtained momentum going via it and it is simply actually exhausting for him to cease that when Tim was falling ahead.
“I do not actually know what else you are meant to do whenever you’re tackling from behind.”
Roos weighs in on sort out debate
Former Sydney Swans and Melbourne coach Paul Roos has additionally weighed in on the difficulty.
Talking on the ABC’s AFL Day by day podcast, Roos mentioned he thought Cameron’s three-match suspension was too harsh.
“A good sort out, three weeks? I believed possibly one week, due to the concussion [to Liam Duggan],” Roos mentioned.
“What we’re clear on now could be that anybody who will get concussed in any kind of incident goes to be every week, minimal [for the tackler]. However three weeks? Have we given the gamers a possibility to regulate?
“What’s there, six video games to go and that is 50 per cent of the season [remaining] that Charlie Cameron is not going to be collaborating in, based mostly on that sort out — are we snug with that?”
Roos went on to say that the brand new pondering was altering the understanding of soccer video games.
“We do not need gamers injured, however there’s nonetheless accidents in a sport, it is a bodily sport,” he mentioned.
“I believe we have taken out the idea of an accident (from the sport) and we have taken out the notion that it’s a bodily sport and generally gamers will get injured.”
There have been two different suspensions within the spherical.
Gold Coast’s Davies was charged with forceful front-on contact after bumping Lachie Jones within the head whereas the Port participant was bent over the ball.
The incident was labeled as careless conduct, extreme affect and excessive contact. Davies and the Suns are difficult the ban.
Davies’ Suns teammate Malcolm Rosas Jr has accepted a one-match ban for hanging Logan Evans with an off-the-ball elbow.
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