Former Brisbane Lions midfielder Mitch Robinson has sparked the bump debate once more, sending footy Twitter right into a frenzy along with his commentary on Shane McAdam’s brutal hit which may nicely earn him an early-season vacation after the Crows’ loss to the Giants on Sunday.
“I don’t care what anyone says, that’s just a part of footy I bloody love,” wrote the big-bodied former midfielder.
“Take that out of the game and it’s just who is the most talented,” he wrote.
“The tackle is already on its way out.”
The Crows ahead lined up the Giants’ Jacob Wehr in a crunching hit that despatched the teenager flying backwards, and may very well be heard throughout Giants Stadium.
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“I’m 50 metres away and you could hear the smack,” Cameron Mooney mentioned on Fox Footy.
It comes as Melbourne’s Kysaiah Pickett and Lance Franklin copped time from the Match Review Panel for his or her hits earlier within the spherical, and commentators in addition to followers on social media count on that McAdam might be in scorching water himself.
“He’s going to be in a world of hurt from the match review panel,” mentioned David King on commentary.
Twitter was not complimentary of Robinson’s commentary on the bump, nevertheless they quickly realised the previous star was igniting a dialogue on the subject with a purposely inflammatory tweet.
One social media consumer sarcastically remarked “they should bring back king hitting (too), or else then it’s just a game of football”.
Another mentioned: “(This is an) early nomination for worst tweet of the year.
“It’s 2023 mate. Get with the times. This was not okay.”
“Makes Dane Swan look like f**king Einstein,” mentioned one other.
Multiple responses famous the continued reckoning that the AFL and the game are having with head impacts and concussion, in addition to the rising prevalence of former gamers presenting with CTE signs.
“Past players are dying because of CTE and Mitch Robinson thinks it’s sensible to tweet this,” mentioned one.
“I’m sure these guys will keep in mind that you love it, Robbo, when they can’t remember the names of their kids or grandkids when they’re 60,” mentioned one other.
“We’ve got former AFL players driving into trees. Get a grip Mitch,” mentioned one other.
“This tweet might make its way into that concussion lawsuit, I reckon. Insane take,” mentioned one other.
Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is a mind situation attributable to repeated blows to the top, resulting in early-onset dementia.
The signs embody reminiscence loss, impulse management issues, melancholy and suicidal ideation, and infrequently don’t current till years after the final head trauma, with the situation solely capable of be recognized after loss of life.
The hyperlink between contact soccer codes and CTE has been popularised for the reason that launch of the 2015 biopic Concussion, which starred Will Smith as forensic pathologist Bennet Omalu, the primary particular person to publish analysis findings on American soccer gamers and CTE.
CTE has been recognized in former AFL gamers together with Polly Farmer, Danny Frawley and Shane Tuck, in addition to champion Maroons coach Paul Green who took his personal life aged 49 final 12 months.
Robinson clarified in a follow-up video just a few hours later that the tweet was intentionally designed to impress debate, given “all the news at the moment about concussion”, calling it a “social experiment”.
“We’ve seen a couple of big hits (this weekend)…so I want to see what the public and what Twitter is thinking,” he mentioned.
“I just want to see what people are saying, see what they bite at.
“(I’ll) make (the tweet) a little bit self-entitled.”
Robinson clarified that whereas he “loves the bump”, however that it was a “pretty big thing for people to make sure they can play the game (safely).
“The research that we’re getting (about) concussions is pretty full-on, so (tough-guy) football is not really needed anymore.
“What can the AFL do to (deter concussion)?
“Keep suspending people (for high hits), I guess.
“If you elect to bump, you’re just going to get weeks regardless.”
Source: www.news.com.au
