Adelaide ahead Shane McAdam is off to the AFL tribunal after his huge bump on GWS’ Jacob Wehr attracted a tough conduct cost.
McAdam is a minimal three-game ban, his bump dominated as careless conduct, extreme impression and excessive contact.
The ‘severe impact’ grading separates him from Melbourne’s Kysaiah Pickett, whose personal brutal bump on Western Bulldog Bailey Smith solely attracted a ‘high impact’ tag which allowed him to flee with a two-game ban.
Wehr handed a concussion take a look at and returned to the sector for the remainder of their win in opposition to the Crows, though that didn’t forestall the severity of McAdam’s cost.
Collingwood veteran Scott Pendlebury earlier urged the AFL to stamp out pointless head-high bumps by punishing gamers primarily based on the motion moderately than the result, after Pickett, McAdam and Sydney’s Lance Franklin all obtained sanctions in spherical one.
It comes at a time with additional scrutiny, concussion a scorching subject in skilled sport with the AFL going through a category motion from former gamers.
Assessing the Pickett incident specifically, the place the Melbourne ahead leapt into the air and into the Bulldog’s head, Pendlebury queried whether or not the ban was solely two weeks as a result of Smith had averted harm.
Wehr and Collins have been each assessed for concussions and cleared whereas Smith obtained straight to his ft.
“Ours is all outcome-based,” Pendlebury instructed Triple M radio.
“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?’ 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.
“(When you launch at someone like Pickett did), your intention’s to hurt. It’s not a football action.
“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’s been going on for five or six years … Those non-football actions I think we really need to treat seriously and get out of our game.”
Pendlebury mentioned he would even be in favour of “sin-binning” gamers like within the NRL.
Franklin’s ban for the Collins bump guidelines him out of the Swans’ conflict with former membership Hawthorn.
“Ten years ago, Buddy wouldn’t even get looked at for that but now that’s a week because we’re so keen to protect the head,” Pendlebury mentioned.
“I think we’ve got to take that approach to everything.
“… the MRO, I don’t know if it’s a better system or a better way of looking at things, (need to) make sure we stamp it out and I don’t know if we’re getting it right at the moment.”
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
