(07-20-2022, 02:34 AM)Mav date Wrote:Or maybe the AFL could discourage players under 6 foot from being a danger to themselves. Trying to draw head contact shouldn’t be rewarded. Neil Sache did it by lowering his head into the chest of an oncoming tackler and he spent a lifetime in a wheelchair as a result.There is too much subjectivity in the way it is implemented, and the opposite as well which I think is even more proof there is some change needed.
For example, when did you last see Cripps get a free kick for high contact? Last weekend while breaking away from a boundary line stoppage I saw Cripps get hit high(neck / jaw) twice in succession, palm slaps only but even so, and he still didn't get a free! After he disposed of the ball he just held his jaw and shook his head!
Should Cripps have done a Menegola, and thrown his arm in the air while twisting to flop on his back like a fish?
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"