(06-22-2015, 09:19 PM)sandsmere link Wrote:I agree with that Carrots, it's either an offence or it's not.
But the MRP do take the injury into account. Unfortunately.
The irony of this situation is that this season a couple of players have been tackled in the same manor and ended up with concussion from hitting their head on their own team-mates in the process. If I recall one hit his head on a hip, the other hit his head on a knee. In those incidents none of the tacklers were reported or suspended and the MRP described it as an accident!
Secondly, the AFL has caused this situation by having that stupid 360 degree interpretation of the holding the ball. The AFL encourages tacklers to turn the tackled player through 360 degrees.
If Carlton appeal then Gibbs has a very good chance of getting off!
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"