Collingwood star Scott Pendlebury has reignited debate round whether or not a send-off system must be launched into the AFL after a collection of harmful bumps in spherical 1.
Despite a better concentrate on head knocks and participant security whereas the league comes below stress from a number of potential class actions from previous gamers, three incidents from the weekend have attracted MRO scrutiny.
Lance Franklin (one week) and Kysaiah Pickett (two weeks) have each been provided bans for his or her respective excessive hits on Sam Collins and Bailey Smith, whereas Shane McAdam will study his destiny on Monday night after amassing GWS wingman Jacob Wehr excessive throughout the Crows’ loss to the Giants on Sunday.
Pendlebury criticised Pickett’s suspension as insufficient, saying gamers must be punished primarily based on their actions relatively than the end result.
Bailey Smith performed on after the bump, which can have allowed Pickett to get away with a smaller penalty.
“I think for years there’s been the question around are we going to punish the outcome or the action and where do we live,” Pendlebury instructed Triple M.
“And we still live in the outcome, punishing the outcome. Which rightly or wrongly, I don’t agree with that.
“I think it should be the action that gets punished. They’re not football actions.”
Pendlebury stated the AFL “needs to get rid of” the bumps seen within the opening spherical.
“Your intention’s to hurt. It’s not a football action,” he stated.
“I’m talking for everyone in the game here, not about those instances, but I think it’s something that we need to get rid of out of our game, but this chat has been going on for five or six years.”
He stated a “sin bin” system, the place a participant could possibly be despatched off for a sure time period, leaving their staff a participant down, was value contemplating.
“Watching the NRL and the stuff like that that happens, they get sin-binned and I don’t mind that for our players,” he stated.
“If Pickett was to get sin-binned, it’s a complete disadvantage and now you play 17 versus 18 for 10 minutes, then it’s 15 minutes and you go to whatever.
“Those non-football actions I think we really need to treat seriously and get that out of our game.”
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
