Healy and Judd are calling for the red card to be introduced to our game after the Cameron hit on Harris Andrews on the weekend.
When will they understand that people, football followers, don’t want it.
I wonder would Judd have screamed blue murder if he was sent off for his dog attack on Pavlich!!!
I don’t have faith in the integrity of some of the umpires to be fair and unbiased as it is now.
Imagine some of the egotists umpiring now in a close GF ,a huge bump on a players.In he come whistle blaring,reaching for the red card as he wobbles in.Off off, that is a red card and 50 metres.The player smiles and plonks the ball through for a goal.Then the siren blows.The video comes up on the screen, what tha!!! He hit him fair and square.,he dived,dived.just like a soccer player.
Red card no thanks.
A/man the vision of Judd hitting Pavlich should be shown to C Judd and then he should be asked did that action warrant a red card?
A red card should be enforced in all finals. One only has to remember Alistar Lynch’s episode back in the early 2000’s when he ran amok in his last game.
If a player is taken out (either accidental or deliberate) than the person doing that act should be removed & not replaced.
We have this year too many “accidental” injuries to top players. If the injured player leaves then so should the offender.
Stuff these weak barstards who accidental .injure good players..
A/man the vision of Judd hitting Pavlich should be shown to C Judd and then he should be asked did that action warrant a red card?
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He would no doubt say no, and I would agree with him.
I would have no problem with a red card and/or sin bin being introduced into AFL - particularly in finals.
Think again?
I think there is an argument for a red card option to be available for king hits behind the play where the impact was as obvious as it was yesterday. In play stuff such as deliberate elbows to the head in marking contests would still continue to be subject to reports and tribunal hearings. On field umpires would NOT be given the power to send off so that would eliminate the “Razor Ray” types looking for their 30 seconds of fame.
Instead, the incident would be reviewed by a VAR official looking at the replay then communicating the decision to the on ground officials. There would be plenty of time to do this while the victim is being carried off on a stretcher and this option would only be used if the victim appeared badly hurt and looked as if they would not be able to continue in the game.
The VAR official would make a decision based on the intent of the action and the impact on the victim. My feeling is that it would not be used very often but it certainly would have yesterday. Taking Gaff out of the game would have prevented the subsequent rather distasteful behaviour of SOME moronic Eagles supporters cheering Gaff like a hero every time he went near the ball ( Note I am saying some because I know a lot of decent Eagles people would have been disgusted with the incident). Then the same idiots booing the Dockers players who understandably sought Gaff out for retribution. This red card option would only be used in extreme and obvious circumstances and if the players knew this option existed they may think twice about doing what Gaff did yesterday.
I thought Gaff was genuine in his apology after the game and he is not a dirty player as his record indicates but it would have been much better for everyone,including himself if he had been able to be removed from the game yesterday.
Generally, my thoughts are no red card. This is Aussie Rules, not soccer. However an incident like this makes me rethink. A king hit to a top line player in a GF could change thegame.
The send off also protects the perpetrator from a serious injury in an act of retaliation, which nobody wants to see. Yesterday Gaff had no choice but to go back on the field to face the music because if he hadnt people would have thought of him as weak. Take the decision out of his hands.
I am still not in favour of the red card
But remember that back when there were multiple thugs running around posing as footballers, they introduced the third umpire!! remember?He was emloyed to see this sort of incident. And don’t give me the vullshit that the game has changed.Three umpires and no one saw it!!!
What was the third umpire doing when this incident happened.Was he sitting away from the game with his finger up his clacker wondering what he was going to have for dinner!!!Do your bloody job.
I think the umps aren’t overly concerned when they miss one with all the cameras around.
Then they should Sharky.This is a prime example of why the third umpire was put in place.If they had done their job , they could have put it to rest almost immediately.
Paid to do SFA.
Perhaps they could get rid of a couple of umps and total rely on the cameras?
Make the THIRD Umpire do what he is being paid for maybe!!
Should of had it years ago, Aussie Rules only code in the world that doesnt have it, total backwards thinking.
It should be there for extreme acts of violence and at the very least for Finals.
Aussie Rules HAS had a send off rule-red card rule (Steven Handley 1991 WAFL Prelim Final) for 30 years or more in the WAFL, Ammos, Country, Masters, Juniors etc it is only the Victorian administered AFL that has NOT had a send off rule!
I recall Richard Maloney got sent off for being reported twice in a game for wasting time I think it was and something else that was quite trivial only to have both thrown out at the tribunal…so not sure I’m a huge fan as the umpies can get it wrong in the heat of battle. I quite like Mike’s idea of a Video Referee type set up where an umpire in the stands gets to look at all available footage and makes a call.
Agree Anchor , those three field umpires from the weekend should never umpire a finals match this year…
Don’t forget Richard Maloney for snotting Devon Perry in 2002 – Subiaco got serious about the WAFL after that match – Subi people were very angry – Sparks went and German came.
Umpires can’t stop players going the bif, they can only re-act to it when it happens.
I am glad there was no such rule in 1986, because our best player would have been sent off for his hit on a certain EF player in the grand final. Perhaps, if the rule had of existed, Bunton might have got another player to do the deed?
Tom Griller would of been sent off in the 1970 GF.
Red card would only work if it was done via an off field mechanism of video replays. Too hard for the on field umpires to adjudicate behind the play incidents. Interesting that guys like Paul Roo’s who has been anti red card in the past has turned around a bit in the light of recent incidents