Rexy wrote:
gerry atric wrote:
Had Judd not tried to be a smartarse he would have got one at most. The club then went to the tribunal then appealed when neither was ever going to be successful. then Juddy comes out with another smartarse comment about Steven Seagal movies. Not a very edifying or sensible incident all the way through. Let's hope the club and player have learnt something and Juddy drops the too cool for school attitude. If he was to give an interview all he needed to do is say he was trying to restrain the player and was careful to avoid going anywhere near the eyes. May not have even been referred. because Juddy is miles ahead of anyone as a player and as a trainer, and given the lack of leaders, I wonder if anyone at the club is allowed to tell Juddy he is stupid.
I highly doubt the the MRP/Tribunal would determine a penalty on anything other than the charge before them.
With the nature of the frenzied modern day media I'd be horrified if what's said outside of the tribunals walls is included in their determination.
Spot on Rexy, and it's the point I was trying to make earlier - what a player says to the media has no bearing on what the match review panel's finding is. The match review panel is there to judge incidents against a set of criteria, none of which includes what a player said to the media. It is not a tribunal anymore people, they don't have the flexibility to let outside factors affect their judgement of a case. i.e. player interviews and opponent testimonials. If they have in fact altered their assessment after Judd's comments then the panel and the system needs a massive shake-up.
Seeing as though that is highly unlikely - and not really possible, it is a bullshit decision. Bullshit because of the system, not because of the panel enforcing it. If they looked at it many different ways and still came up with a 3 week suspension, then something is terribly wrong with the system.
You know, the funny thing is that I was trying to point out that the media had blown the incident out of proportion by talking about it as a gouging case and that (non-Carlton) guys at work were saying earlier in the week that he deserved it for eye-gouging etc. etc. Well, it just so happened that these same guys asked me about it at work on Friday because they reckon Juddy was a bit stiff for getting 3 weeks for doing next to nothing!! It seems that all it took to change their minds was a few commenting about it on the footy show....... One of them even said that they should have let Juddy off after his Steven Seagal comment
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