An opportunity to shine

The Match Review Panel has an opportunity presented to it this week to shine. Carlton’s Jarrad Waite performed one of the more blatant examples of staging to be seen on an AFL field in 2010, dropping like a stone and holding his face after a Sydney opponent’s hand brushed him mid-chest.

If Waite is not cited, the AFL’s much-vaunted anti-staging sanctions will, once and for all, be seen to be nothing less than window dressing.

We wait with bated breath. . . .