The brother of Melbourne star Angus Brayshaw has ripped into the AFL, accusing the league of a Collingwood bias over the dealing with of the bump from Collingwood defender Brayden Maynard that has lit up the soccer world.
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With Maynard’s tried smother-turned-bump shaping as a landmark tribunal case on Tuesday, former West Coast Eagles participant Hamish Brayshaw mentioned he anticipated Maynard to get off scot-free, owing to a need from AFL House for Collingwood to win their third premiership since 1958.
“It will set a precedent for what is going to happen for a long time in football I think, whether he gets off or whether he doesn’t,” Brayshaw mentioned on the Shelter FootyCast alongside former West Coast star Will Schofield and commentator Mark Readings.
“I think if this happened in Round 3, sweet no worries mate you’ve got weeks. The scrutiny comes under the fact that I think the AFL are desperate for Collingwood to win a premiership.
“They want the supporters to go nuts, they’ve got 106,000 members, they want to do everything they can, in my opinion, for that to happen.
“The world wants to see that happen, or the Collingwood fans do anyway and they have a very loud voice so a lot of that is driven by the Collingwood fans and I think a few people at the AFL who want to see Collingwood win.
“But duty of care for a player, whether that comes into account, I don’t know.”
Brayshaw did nonetheless, go on to notice that new AFL soccer boss Laura Kane reportedly unilaterally exercised her authority to refer Maynard on to the tribunal after Match Review Officer Michael Christian declined to put him on report.
“The MRO (Match Review Officer) wanted to knock it straight away and not even look at it,” he mentioned.
“For Laura Kane to step in and say, ‘Well actually, this is a pretty serious incident let’s have a look’. Good on her, well done, she stepped straight into her role and has gone bang.
“We’ll find out tomorrow night and then that will get appealed and appealed and appealed and we probably won’t find out until Friday but that will be an interesting week.”
Brayshaw revealed his emotion at watching the incident that divided soccer this week, given his household’s shut relationship to move trauma.
“He’s okay, which is good. I got pretty emotional watching it because of his history and all the rest of it,” he mentioned.
“His symptoms had died down a couple of days afterwards which was good, he’s getting a scan on his brain tonight (September 11), an MRI tonight from the same doctor who’s done all of his previous scans, so they’ll be able to get a pretty good insight into what is going on up there which is handy.
“I was on the phone to him yesterday, he seems in reasonably good spirits, he’s happy that the symptoms are dying down / going away because he’s had them before, and they’re s**t.
“So he’s in a good spot, he’s up and about, everyone around him is giving him pretty good support, but he’s all right.”
Angus Brayshaw took an prolonged break from the game in 2016 over his historical past of head trauma, sitting out half of his second 12 months and nearly all of 2017 after struggling 4 concussions within the area of 12 months.
In 2018, brother Andrew was additionally violently struck within the face in an off-the-ball incident by West Coast’s Andrew Gaff, leaving the youthful Brayshaw with a fractured jaw and three dislodged tooth.
Angus has worn a helmet to assuage the fears of his mom Debra after repeated concussions early in his profession.
He can also be engaged to Danielle Frawley, the daughter of much-loved late St Kilda nice Danny Frawley, who after battling with melancholy for many years took his personal life in 2019 and was later identified with stage two CTE, a neurodegenerative illness attributable to repeated head trauma.
Maynard is ready to face a landmark tribunal case which is anticipated to run nicely over time on Tuesday, with Collingwood understood to be ready to enchantment any hostile discovering, whereas Melbourne coach Simon Goodwin says whereas Brayshaw is feeling higher, he was cognisant of his broader well being.
“Clearly he’s in the protocols and there’s more checks that needs to be done,” Goodwin informed press on Tuesday.
“So far, so good in terms of his progression to where we want to be. But there’s some tests that still need to be done.
“He’s got to work through these protocols and we certainly won’t take a risk with him as a player. There’s a big picture to think of here with Angus and we’ve just got to make sure everything is done properly.
“His health is paramount in this situation. So we certainly won’t take a risk. We’ll make sure the protocols are done well and once we get through that, we’ll assess it then.”
Melbourne will face a resurgent Carlton on the MCG for the possibility to play Brisbane in a preliminary remaining, with a crowd of round 95,000 anticipated for the blockbuster.
Source: www.news.com.au
