More proof today that the AFL, through the Match Review Panel, sold us a pup with their much-vaunted staging sanctions. Essendon’s Stewart Crameri has been cleared of any wrongdoing after making high contact with the Barcodes’ Dale Thomas during the pres-season Grand Final.
Clearly the Match Review Panel stopped the tape as soon as the contact was made, otherwise they would have seen Thomas execute one of the great examples of staging, throwing his body into the air like some demented gymnast.
Why announce staging sanctions if they’re never to be applied? Why do such a poor job of promoting what the staging sanctions purported to be about that there is widespread misunderstanding of them?
It’s clear there was never any intention to have these rules applied. What AussieRulesBlog can’t figure out is why they went to the trouble of creating the sanctions in the first place. It’s not like there was a general hue and cry to eliminate the sort of exaggerated response that the rules were supposed to deal with.
What was also clear is that fans want exaggeration of contact in marking contests to be outlawed, but we suspect the AFL doesn’t have any taste for tackling that issue. Frankly, we wouldn’t either in their position.
Monday, March 14, 2011
Staging all OK
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Staging sanctions
More proof today that the AFL, through the Match Review Panel, sold us a pup with their much-vaunted staging sanctions. Essendon’s Stewart Crameri has been cleared of any wrongdoing after making high contact with the Barcodes’ Dale Thomas during the pres-season Grand Final.Clearly the Match Review Panel stopped the tape as soon as the contact was made, otherwise they would have seen Thomas execute one of the great examples of staging, throwing his body into the air like some demented gymnast.
Why announce staging sanctions if they’re never to be applied? Why do such a poor job of promoting what the staging sanctions purported to be about that there is widespread misunderstanding of them?
It’s clear there was never any intention to have these rules applied. What AussieRulesBlog can’t figure out is why they went to the trouble of creating the sanctions in the first place. It’s not like there was a general hue and cry to eliminate the sort of exaggerated response that the rules were supposed to deal with.
What was also clear is that fans want exaggeration of contact in marking contests to be outlawed, but we suspect the AFL doesn’t have any taste for tackling that issue. Frankly, we wouldn’t either in their position.
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