06-22-2015, 08:04 AM
(06-22-2015, 07:52 AM)PassIt2Carrots link Wrote:So players have to be careful when they are tackling now? Tackle with intent by all means but do it with care? This is absolutely ridiculous. The bloke wasn't even concussed FFS. If we don't challenge this we are still a very weak football club.
The players are bound by contracts, rules, codes of conduct etc. Implicit in all of these would be an element of care. Tackling within the rules would hopefully involve an element of care. It's an area that the AFL seems very tardy in addressing.
As an example - If you have players lying on the ground, you will see other players walk around them, leap over them etc. Of course some players might give them a bit of a nudge. The players on the ground are not treated as part of the turf, with an army of other players stomping on them left right and center. Then people will say, "so players have to be careful where they walk now ?"
It's a ridiculous example, but hopefully it gets my point across.