Peter Wright contact with Harry Cunningham: Pleads Guilty and Receives 4 Week Suspension

[Captivating]

Ffs
The Maynard "rule" is a cynical joke
Maynard only got off because he played for Collingwood in the finals

One of the worst Tribunal decisions.of the modern era

Why are you so stupid to believe this? Why do you think Collingwood have some sort of advantage during finals. All of the evidence suggests otherwise, but certain cretins still believe in this faux conspiracy.

 

[Gavin Excell]

The video and photo above shows that's just categorically not true.

It doesn't matter if it's a Maynard "football act"

Laughable isn't it

 

[Foxx]

The video and photo above shows that's just categorically not true.

His whole head and body turned to protect himself the last split second when he saw Cunningham coming out of his peripheral vision.

 

[Captivating]

I eagerly await some responses from certain Essendon supporters who were very opinionated on their thoughts towards Brayden Maynard.

but he was going for the ball....he was in the air...

 

[carnthedons]

I eagerly await some responses from certain Essendon supporters who were very opinionated on their thoughts towards Brayden Maynard.

I have no problem with what Maynard did. Jumps to try to spoil the ball, how the heck is he supposed to bend physics at that point?

 

[SSwans2011]

His whole head and body turned to protect himself the last split second when he saw Cunningham coming out of his peripheral vision.

Cool. So he left the ground and took his eyes off the ball. Glad we agree.

 

[Struggle]

All he needed was a fist towards the ball and he would be fine but unfortunately for Cunningham, Wright shat himself
3-4 weeks

 

[Foxx]

Cool. So he left the ground and took his eyes off the ball. Glad we agree.

Have you ever played the game?

 

[Gavin Excell]

Why are you so stupid to believe this? Why do you think Collingwood have some sort of advantage during finals. All of the evidence suggests otherwise, but certain cretins still believe in this faux conspiracy.

The AFL clearly want to move on from this decision
AFL is a kangaroo court where they famously don't accept precedent
Even.more so the.Maynard decision
Yikes

 

[powerrrrrrrrrrrr]

If you have time to turn your body and shoulder into a player, you have time to extend your arms and break your collision when you see another player come in.

That’s all Wright had to do. He chose the shoulder so will be weeks.

 

[SSwans2011]

Have you ever played the game?

 

[Captivating]

The AFL clearly want to move on from this decision
AFL is a kangaroo court where they famously don't accept precedent
Even.more so the.Maynard decision
Yikes

What precedent?

 

[Captivating]

Have you ever played the game?

Good luck with that defence

 

[Gavin Excell]

What precedent?

There is no precedent

 

[StillAtLarge]

He'll get two weeks, not much in it but he was late and knocked him out

 

[ashep]

Yeah trying to take a chest mark

Mighta been better off looking at the ball then.

4 weeks ez

 

[sobrave]

Based on SPP getting 4, that's 6 weeks.

 

[Shinboner roo]

You just don't do it, smh

 

[Dogflogger]

worse the SPP's hit and not as bad as Websters, gotta be 5-6 weeks doesn't it?

 

[Mootsy]

worse the SPP's hit and not as bad as Websters, gotta be 5-6 weeks doesn't it?

That’s up to the mrp, not us.

 

[Dogflogger]

That’s up to the mrp, not us.

Just going by this years previous cases, unless of course the MRP judge based on name and club.

 

[Mootsy]

Just going by this years previous cases, unless of course the MRP judge based on name and club.

Peter Wright is alright!

 

[Xtreme]

12 weeks

Should know not to do it by now

 

[sherb]

He was jumping for the mark.

Cunningham was going for the mark, Wright wasn't.

 

[aussierulesrules]

It’s really easy for people to say from the comfort of their lounge chairs- when watching the incident in extreme slow motion- that he “shouldn’t brace for contact and should just continue to go for the mark”, but when you’re out there in the heat of battle, and you’ve got your eyes on a ball- that was kicked to you- and then at the very last split second you realise you’re about to be cleaned up- by a guy coming at you at 30kmh from your blind spot- that is IMO fanciful.

Your natural instinct in a situation like that is very simple. Protect yourself. That is our pure human instinct when our safety is in danger. In particular, protect your head and vital organs.

Which is exactly what Wright did. The down-the-ground vision showed that he had his eyes on the ball until the very last split-second, until he realised he was about to get cleaned up from side on, at which point he did two things:

1: Jump off the ground to get his head out of the danger zone
2: He crossed his arms across his chest, to protect his vital organs.

Our brains job by far ahead of anything else is to keep us safe and alive. It doesn’t even care if we’re happy. Its job is to keep us safe and alive.

So expecting these guys to make a split-second decision to go against that instinct that every human has to protect themselves is IMO completely unreasonable.

This is a contact sport. People are going to get hurt. If Wright hadn’t done what he did to protect himself, there’s every chance he gets hurt.

Saying that guys can’t do anything to protect themselves because we’re trying to stop people getting hurt contradicts itself.

Even if they could overrule their natural instinct in that split second, they’re now putting themselves in serious danger of the hurt we’re supposedly trying to prevent!

“You can’t protect yourself from harm if you’re going to be involved in a heavy collision, you must keep yourself wide open, because we don’t want people getting hurt”.

Think about how insanely ridiculous that sounds. Yet that’s essentially what the rules are now saying.

You couldn’t make this s**t up.