That's the right question. It is insanity that pure chance = 4 weeks.I acknowledge the 4 weeks but out of interest would there be any sanction if there was no incidental head contact?
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That's the right question. It is insanity that pure chance = 4 weeks.I acknowledge the 4 weeks but out of interest would there be any sanction if there was no incidental head contact?
That's the right question. It is insanity that pure chance = 4 weeks.
No. It's a painful quirk.I acknowledge the 4 weeks but out of interest would there be any sanction if there was no incidental head contact?
Rankine could have chosen not to bump him. What Rankine did was not reasonable in the circumstances, and the head contact that caused the damage can be entirely attributed to Rankine's bad decision makingThat's the right question. It is insanity that pure chance = 4 weeks.
Was a weak act, the hilarity to see some Crows supporters say Rankine was bracing for contact lmao. Dude lined him up for a chest bump and caught his head.
For the record I agree that he deserves the ban, noting that he chose to bump so deals with the consequences. I was just curious that it seems he wouldn’t have been sanctioned if he flattened him with 100% chest contact, off the ball.
2 players contesting for position off the ball and Rankine just got the wrong timing on him.
Regardless of the outcome it won't make any difference in Adelaide's season and it is pointless to challenge this.
Think you can miss up to 6 games (70% is the minimum). How many will this take it to?Can say goodbye to his shot at an AA blazer with that bump too
I believe he missed three already with the hamstring injury where he ran too far against CollingwoodThink you can miss up to 6 games (70% is the minimum). How many will this take it to?
4 weeks for an accidental head clash?
Well I don't think they can claim it was intentional. High impact, high contact, reckless maybe, but isn't that 2 or 3 weeks?"Accidental" after trying to clean a guy up off the ball at a stoppage. Well deserved ban
2 players contesting for position off the ball
Well I don't think they can claim it was intentional. High impact, high contact, reckless maybe, but isn't that 2 or 3 weeks?
Well I don't think they can claim it was intentional. High impact, high contact, reckless maybe, but isn't that 2 or 3 weeks?
Well then you don't know the rules. He intentionally hit him off the ball and the fact he collected him high in the process is his responsibility
Fair enough. Unlucky for Rankine but he took the risk I guessThe reckless grading doesn’t exist anymore. There is only careless and intentional.
There has recently been the tendency to grade careless if the bump was part of a footballing act. E.g you went the bump to win a contest for the ball and you had no other realistic alternative.
Once you do it off the ball though, you generally lose the benefit of the doubt and they are more likely to grade as intentional. It might seem harsh but it’s the only way to adjudicate it without the ability to read player’s minds.
Except let his guard down around a sharp shooterNot sure what footage some are looking at. Izak clearly lined him up, intended to make him hurt, ideally with a big chest bump, but got it wrong. Starcevich did literally nothing wrong.
Except let his guard down around a sharp shooter
The MRP deserves a lot of criticism, but it doesn’t help when people criticising it simply refuse to learn the guidelines and interpretations.
The Rankine situation has been well-established for years now.
It’s really simple. If you choose to bump when you had a better alternative, you incur full responsibility for the outcome. What you “were trying to do” is entirely irrelevant.
It was off the ball, so Rankine had a clear alternative… don’t bump him.
Once he makes the decision to bump, the rest is easy. It’s an intentional act to bump. Whether he intended to hit him high or not doesn’t matter in the assessment of intentional. Put that grading in the book.
He hit him high, it’s high contact. Put it in the book.
The only ground for appeal might be whether the impact was severe. Not sure if that was based off any medical information or not. If the Crows roll the dice, it will be on that.
Yeah nah he should have 360 vison at all times.