03-23-2018, 10:19 PM
(03-23-2018, 10:10 PM)LP link Wrote:I'd agree with that hypothesis, but if it's true.............
Logically because of the shorter season you have to accept a suspension in the women's season is a harsher penalty than the men's.
What we are really arguing is the penalties as a percentage of the season, it reasonable logic, but I'm not sure you can scale penalties because of the effects of the offence. A sling tackle can do the same amount of damage in the short season as the long!
The lawyers are walking a razor's edge, because this result can go either way. The girls could find themselves getting the same penalties as the men and that would mean they be wiped out for a season for a high bump!
This process from Brennan's legal team could really bite the rest of the AFLW competition on the arse, it's a bit selfish!
I said the above example earlier. I also included the Sarah Darcy kick to one of the hosking twins vagina as precedence. She got 2 (or 3?) weeks for that, whereas in the mens game it would've been minimum 4 or 5.
The sliding scale of punishment has been talked about on a few footy shows before the Brennan suspension. I don't think its any official rule, per se, more of a common sense type of guideline.