Vickery cops 4 weeks [updated]

[🏅Dooks]

The more the show the incident on TV, The more l like it. He should have shaped up & took a few more of them on. Best thing l seen since Barry Hall left hooked Staker   

Ain't it sweet?

Seriously, half the reason people across a broad spectrum are up in arms is that the whole incident reinforces Richmond on the front foot for a change.

And anyone over 35 knows has psychological sensitivity about that.

[dwaino]

#standbyTy

[TigerMonk]

The overall outcome from the suspension is someone now has to stand up & take Tyrone's place in the team. l hope we see the real Ben Griffiths in the next 4 games as he will have no excuses not to perform. The pressure will be lifted now that he has been prepared for the same position as Tyrone. It's game on. Griffith must take the bull by the horns. 

[Smokey]

The more the show the incident on TV, The more l like it. He should have shaped up & took a few more of them on. Best thing l seen since Barry Hall left hooked Staker   

 

[Smokey]

The overall outcome from the suspension is someone now has to stand up & take Tyrone's place in the team. l hope we see the real Ben Griffiths in the next 4 games as he will have no excuses not to perform. The pressure will be lifted now that he has been prepared for the same position as Tyrone. It's game on. Griffith must take the bull by the horns. 

Agree TM, almost his last chance you would think but it's a bloody good one.  Spotlight will be on.

[one-eyed]

Vickery happy with four-week AFL ban
West Australian/AAP
By Rob Forsaith
July 29, 2014, 4:46 pm WST

Richmond's Tyrone Vickery expressed relief after the AFL tribunal gave him a four-week ban for clocking Dean Cox.

Vickery's striking charge was referred directly to the tribunal, whose members retired for six minutes on Tuesday night before agreeing on the penalty.

Both AFL legal counsel Andrew Woods and player advocate Michael Tovey QC had agreed a ban of five weeks, reduced to four with a guilty plea, was correct.

The 24-year-old pleaded guilty at the start of proceedings, while the three-man tribunal panel were given a transcript of his public apology to the iconic West Coast ruckman on Sunday.

Vickery was given a penalty of 495 demerit points, meaning 95 carryover points will be hanging over his head when the Tigers play Sydney at ANZ Stadium on August 30.

The forward will miss matches against GWS, Essendon, Adelaide and St Kilda before being available for selection in the final round of the season.

Vickery, who knocked out Cox while the veteran was watching the ball at a boundary throw-in, was happy with the result.

"I got a fair trial and a fair hearing. That (four weeks) was the conclusion and we accept it," Vickery said.

"Very happy to now have a conclusion to it. I'm able to train hard for the next four weeks and give myself a chance to potentially play in the last round.

"I'm thrilled to have the opportunity to potentially play again this season."

Vickery said he was glad the incident was over and pledged to "play hard and aggressive, but not overstep the mark which is what I owe - especially to my teammates".

Speaking on radio station 3AW, 1988 Brownlow medallist Gerard Healy suggested Vickery could consider himself "a very lucky man".

"For mine, five weeks was the minimum, six wouldn't have surprised," Healy said.

Vickery joins Brian Lake in copping a four-week suspension - the sternest punishment handed out by the tribunal this season.

But as opposed to Lake's case, when the Hawthorn defender unsuccessfully argued he was trying to grab Petrie's guernsey and not his throat, this time it was all very agreeable at the tribunal.

Tovey made the point no bones were broken and that the incident was on the lower scale of severe impact.

But both he and Woods agreed the blow was intentional, severe impact and high contact - and Vickery was not called on to testify.

https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/sport/afl/a/24574045/vickery-to-front-tribunal/

[one-eyed]

Three culprits in Vickery-Cox incident

   Tim Lane
     The Age
    July 29, 2014 - 5:57PM

A sequence of events which began at a boundary throw-in last Friday night has culminated in Tyrone Vickery’s suspension. A breach of the rules as execrable and blatant as his knock-out blow to Dean Cox could not but be severely punished.

So Cox has been injured and Vickery suspended. The tragedy, though, is that this should never have happened.

In lashing out angrily as he did, Vickery was responding to an obvious breach of the rules by Cox. In the manner that makes old ruckmen misty-eyed, the Eagles veteran had belted Vickery in the guts with his elbow before the ball was thrown in.

Let’s consider that action. The ball is not in play, which is significant; one player deliberately swings his arm back and strikes his opponent; that opponent – 98 kilograms of him – is put on the deck grimacing in pain. And no free kick is awarded.

How different it would have been had umpire Jeff Dalgleish blown his whistle, awarded Vickery the free to which he was entitled, and told Cox he would report him if the action was repeated. Cox would not have suffered concussion and Vickery would be playing this week.

The fact is there were three culprits in this sorry scenario. The one who had the power to nip the chain reaction in the bud failed in his job and, indeed, in his duty of care.

Football is a tough game and umpires have the task of enforcing the rules so that, as far as possible, pain doesn’t turn to anger and anger to violence. It’s interesting that the umpire’s role in this incident has barely been the subject of comment. In this, I too plead guilty.

In weekend radio discussions about the matter, where assessments and judgments were made, I found myself seduced by the salacious element of the knock-out punch. It wasn’t until I watched the Monday night television analysis that the screamingly obvious occurred to me.

And this is symptomatic of what happens in this era of non-interventionist umpiring. We are all numbed to the constant reality of important free kicks being ignored.

When it comes to apportioning blame for this, Dalgleish is well down the totem pole. The AFL football operations department, the umpiring coaches, the rules committee, and even some influential commentators are above those who blow the whistle. The umpiring department now concedes Dalgleish should have paid Vickery a free kick. They should be asking themselves why such oversights might occur.

Leigh Matthews said on 3AW recently that, as a coach, you would never tell your players not to make mistakes because that would paralyse them. Matthews opined that in telling umpires only to pay what the metaphorical fan in the back row can see – this year’s stated approach – the umpires’ coaches are effectively doing this. Better to not blow the whistle than blow it and risk getting it wrong. If you doubt that one umpire’s inaction can have serious consequences, just ask Ty Vickery and Dean Cox.

http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/three-culprits-in-vickerycox-incident-20140729-zy86y.html#ixzz38rN4LbRM

[Yeahright]

Vickery, who knocked out Cox while the veteran was watching the ball at a boundary throw-in, was happy with the result.

They were both watching the ball

[RollsRoyce]

Spot on Tim Lane

[Phil Mrakov]

Careful Lane, the AFL might put a hit out on you after that article. Can't have people telling it like it is

[(•))(©™]

Legally that makes the AFL liable.



Pursue it RFC!!!

[YellowandBlackBlood]

He must have read my post!
Bravo Mr. Lane!

[(•))(©™]

of course he did....

[The Big Richo]

Or grown men could learn the lesson they were supposed to learn as 3 year olds, which is you can't just belt someone who does the wrong thing by you.

No wonder Tim Lane produced the daughter he did, what a flog.

[Dice]

Enjoy your retirement Cox. Glad you won't remember your last game against Richmond. Hopefully if you go and play suburban footy or any type of footy again you are smart enough to think twice before doing what you did to Ty Vickery last Friday night. If you do it again I hope you get smashed again. Well done Ty. See you in round 23.