04-03-2023, 10:29 PM
(04-03-2023, 09:48 PM)PaulP link Wrote:It's a terrible decision. Imagine if we lose a GF because Cripps questions an unpaid free. The AFL needs to find another way of dealing with this. It's not an infringement where players are deliberately doing illegal things to alter the state of play in their favour. There's no cheating, jumper holding, deliberate OOB etc. You can't have this tiggy touchwood nonsense affecting a result. Hand out heavy fines, suspend the player for the following match etc. But don't change the outcome because some player says boo.
Dissent is cheating by intimidating the umpire. If Cripps gave away a 50 or free I’d be p1ssed off with him, not the umpire or the rule.
Players know the rules. Coniglio is a serial offender and was demonstrative in his dissent earlier in the game. Perhaps he will keep his trap shut now.
“Why don’t you knock it off with them negative waves? Why don’t you dig how beautiful it is out here? Why don’t you say something righteous and hopeful for a change?” Oddball