Interstate vs Interstate

[spert]

Maybe someone can jog my memory.. if two interstate teams play each other and a player from each team gets reported for punching each other, do they both get off automatically on a technicality?

[plugger66]

Maybe someone can jog my memory.. if two interstate teams play each other and a player from each team gets reported for punching each other, do they both get off automatically on a technicality?

Freo have the most suspensions for the year but of course the AFL is picking on the Saints.

[snoopygirl]

So are you saying the Club are ok about Bakes being cited Plugger? Are they confident of justice being seen to be done like it always is in games against Freo?

[saintspremiers]

So are you saying the Club are ok about Bakes being cited Plugger? Are they confident of justice being seen to be done like it always is in games against Freo?

I honestly think he must be towing some sort of party line tonight.

You can't trust the AFL as far as you'd like to kick them on this or virtually any other matter regarding our club.

We even recruited an ex-Sydney person as our coach and it seems not to have helped.

[plugger66]

So are you saying the Club are ok about Bakes being cited Plugger? Are they confident of justice being seen to be done like it always is in games against Freo?

I honestly think he must be towing some sort of party line tonight.

You can't trust the AFL as far as you'd like to kick them on this or virtually any other matter regarding our club.

We even recruited an ex-Sydney person as our coach and it seems not to have helped.

What party line. I am a supporter of the club sitting at home reading saintsational. I just dont understand why people think the Saints get the worst decision in a game at the tribunal our fixture and so on. If you think I have anyting to do with the club or the AFL you are dead set wrong.

[The_Dud]

Maybe someone can jog my memory.. if two interstate teams play each other and a player from each team gets reported for punching each other, do they both get off automatically on a technicality?

well, didn't both Selwood and Headland get off at the tribunial, when for one to be found not guilty, it would mean the other had to be guilty?

but they found a way for both of them to be found not guilty, with the decisions completely contradicting eachother

so i thihnk thats a close example

[Richter]

Freo have the most suspensions for the year but of course the AFL is picking on the Saints.

.....because they're a dirty team.

Some of us get peeved because it is deemed ok for two of our best players (Ball and Kosi) get knocked out and miss many many games for the season with genuinely serious injuries, despite the AFL's suppsoedly tough stance on head-high contact there was not a smidgeon of interest from the AFL.

Whilst other players - Judd, Cousins, Hall, Brown seem to get an easy ride. Justice really needs to be blind, and many of us can see that there the AFL is skewed. So be it, but unless we stand up and scream about it, it will never be skewed in our direction.

Sorry, but for me it's St Kilda first, Australian Rules Football second. Not the other way around.

[st_Trav_ofWA]

i argee with you plugger a few ppl on here do like to cry foul over everything that happens to the club and feel the AFL has something against us and yes freo have had more players suspended then us but i think the thing that gives us all an uneasy feeling is our history of getting the raw end of the deal. a simple soloution would be not get reported the the Trybunal would have no impact on our players but i think it just go's to prove a lack of confidence in the Trybunals running where they seem to just make it up as they go .
i dont buy into conspirisy about the afl wanting to punnish any team but i do have my feelings the AFL do have a preferance o some teams success for in the AFL's eyes the betterment for the comp.

[yipper]

So are you saying the Club are ok about Bakes being cited Plugger? Are they confident of justice being seen to be done like it always is in games against Freo?

I appreciate you're point of view Plugger - and I too, hope a conspiracy doesn't exist. However, I have very little confidence in the way the AFL Tribunal has been operating over the past few years. And I have a very uneasy feeling about tonight. Despite there being NO video evidence, NO impartial witnesses and NO other incriminating evidence of any kind other than the word of a trainer associated with the aggrieved club, despite all this - I believe he will be rubbed out. Do you have complete faith and confidence in the system Plugger??