David King is asking on the AFL Tribunal to come back down laborious on Richmond’s Nathan Broad after he was despatched immediately by way of by match assessment officer Michael Christian.
Broad knocked Adelaide participant Patrick Parnell out chilly within the first quarter after dumping him on the turf outdoors the boundary line courtesy of a sling deal with.
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Broad wrapped his arms round Parnell close to the boundary line earlier than lifting him off the bottom and slinging him to the turf.
Parnell remained down on the bottom for a number of minutes as play was delivered to a standstill as trainers rushed to his facet.
He was subbed out immediately and can now miss subsequent Saturday evening’s showdown towards Port Adelaide.
“He picked him up and spun him around. That’s the sort of action we’re trying to prevent because that can bring head injuries into play,” Jason Dunstall mentioned on Fox Footy.
“It’s not malicious, but it’s the wrong action.”
King believes the Tiger’s star must be handed a monstrous suspension for the act which he described as each deliberate and meaning to inflict most injury.
“I’m seriously interested in how many weeks they go for,” King mentioned on SEN Whateley.
“I’m not happy with five (weeks), I think it’s six plus.
“This act, can we step through the difference between this and the bump?
“Most players go in just to make contact, they don’t necessarily go to hit the head and it’s part of our game.
“So to is tackling, but when you grab an arm and you know you’ve got that player – and often they’re light bodies – Patty Parnell is a light body.
“This is happening across the country, big kids tackling little kids, as soon as you know you’re slinging, you have a level of certainty of where the head is.
“You have got his whole frame in a wrap, including his arm, and when you give you the extra sauce at the end and really spin and rip that body with full force knowing the head is hitting the ground … these guys know, I won’t hear that they don’t know (the head is hitting the ground).
“It’s a deliberate act to inflict maximum damage.”
A prolonged ban being handed down would ship a message that sling deal with isn’t acceptable and will assist stamp it out on the grassroots stage.
“Now it is out of your hands, the Tribunal needs to influence and impact maximum damage,” King mentioned.
“We’ve stuffed up the bump for three years, we’re still talking about it and still trying to take it out of the game.
“You can take the sling tackle out of the game this week, you can give six weeks and say, ‘If you do this guys, it’s six (weeks)’.
“It’s not, ‘Oh, it’s two, and we’ll find grounds to get you down to one, it’s not severe and you didn’t quite knock him out … thanks for not knocking him out so you get one week’.
“No, the act and the action is incredibly dangerous, we don’t want kids seeing this.
“We don’t want parents deciding whether their kids play footy because of these acts.
“You stamp it out now or you lose the fight … I’m sort of a bit tired about losing this fight, I think it’s time for the AFL to take over.
“Now ask for six weeks, don’t ask for four, if they ask for four, we’ve lost the fight.”
Source: www.news.com.au
