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Re: Lynch cleared by the tribunal [update]
« Reply #75 on: April 12, 2023, 03:34:45 AM »
Hardwick was perplexed at the thought Lynch could be in any sort of trouble with the match review officer when asked about the incident after the match.

"What for?," Hardwick said.

"I don't know what incident you're talking about."

When pressed further on the issue during a testy exchange, Hardwick said it was a "marking contest".

Hardwick scoffed when told it was raised during Fox Footy's broadcast of the match that Lynch could be in any trouble for the incident.

"If it's raised on the broadcast ... I've listened to the broadcast recently, they're not great," he replied.

"For being tough in the contest? No, I wouldn't have thought (Lynch would be in trouble)."

https://www.msn.com/en-au/sport/cricket/hardwick-leaps-to-lynch-s-defence-after-keath-collision/ar-AA19C9IJ?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=b78968f711384335ac1cdaae70de5850&ei=14
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Re: Lynch cleared by the tribunal [update]
« Reply #76 on: April 12, 2023, 11:24:37 AM »
Up yours media total disgrace we have the worse journalists in this country.

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Re: Lynch cleared by the tribunal [update]
« Reply #77 on: April 12, 2023, 03:49:52 PM »
Tigers star Tom Lynch's fiancee shares her hilarious reaction to his tribunal win after he dodged three-week ban for hit on Alex Keath

By Andrew Prentice
Daily Mail Australia
 12 April 2023


The fiancée of Richmond star Tom Lynch has shared his hilarious reaction to a win at the AFL tribunal on Tuesday.



After the result was confirmed, Olivia Burke shared an image to her Instagram followers of her man tucking into some pasta on the couch - while still dressed in a Tigers polo top.

It seems Burke was expecting Lynch to take far longer to clear his name.

'Got halfway through [a manicure] and then got the call to go pick up old mate from footy courts,' she wrote on her post, captioning the photo of her husband-to-be 'happy free(ish) old mate'.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/afl/article-11962767/AFL-Richmond-Tigers-star-Tom-Lynchs-fianc-e-shares-hilarious-reaction-tribunal-win.html

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Re: Lynch cleared by the tribunal [update]
« Reply #78 on: April 12, 2023, 03:57:29 PM »
WHY BUCKLEY DISAGREES WITH AFL TRIBUNAL'S LYNCH CALL

Marcus Beeck
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12 April 2023


Former Collingwood coach Nathan Buckley has voiced his disappointment over the tribunal's decision to not suspend star Richmond forward Tom Lynch.

Lynch was sent straight to the tribunal after the match review panel deemed that the forward’s collision with Bulldog’s defender Alex Keath, which led to Keath sustaining a concussion, was careless conduct with high contact and severe impact.

The Tigers key forward was able to escape suspension although the result is relatively meaningless due to the fact that Lynch was already set to spend an extended period of time on the sidelines after injuring his foot in the same match over the weekend.

Buckley disagrees with the tribunal's decision to overturn Lynch’s ban as he believes the star Tiger should have been suspended due to the fact that he chose to not contest the football.

“I think I called it agricultural in the call,” Buckley told SEN’s Whateley.

“I think Tom Lynch is an old school forward and I think he is a player that plays with a bit of physicality. I think he is a player who makes his teammates walk taller around him because he goes at contests and he goes at bodies unlike a lot of players in the competition these days.

“I believe that, and this is my opinion and it’s based on nothing other than watching the game, I believe that he was aware that Alex Keath was coming back and decided that he would make contact and that he was going to be able to bring the ball to ground in that instance.

“He is a chest marker so he was probably setting up for a chest mark, it was very slippery as well. He would probably argue that he was thinking about going for a chest mark, saw the player out of the corner of his eye and then decided to make contact with him rather than contest the ball.

“That’s what I viewed and I thought that the tribunal would uphold that.

“If that ball was on the ground and that player was attacking a ground ball and decided not to go and contest the ground ball, like had misjudged their attack on a ground ball and then set themselves and knocked out a player who was coming into that contest, does that player get off? I don’t think so.”

Although Buckley understands that players have the right to protect themselves in a marking contest, the former Collingwood captain believes Lynch was still intending to hurt Keath.

“I don’t believe that Tom Lynch should keep himself open in that situation, I think that he is entitled to protect himself. But I also think that you can protect yourself but you still must make a play on the football as soon as you give up attacking the football, eyes on the football, trying to make a football play I don't think protecting yourself is a defence,” Buckley said.

“Tom Lynch isn’t so much of a high jumper, but he is a person who knows the drop of the ball, knows where the bodies are and manipulates his position to protect the drop of the ball and then goes to it either with his hands or a chest mark.

“I think he could’ve chosen to do that; it might’ve been the same result for Alex Keath in the end, but it would have been a football action. Like actually going at the ball and defending yourself in the process.

“I think there’s no doubt he was defending himself and making sure that there was no damage to him from Alex Keath coming back with courage. I think there was a little bit of intent in it as well but as we know we’ve taken intent out of the whole thing; we can’t prove intent. So, you needed to prove that it was reckless or careless and they were able to argue that away.”

https://www.sen.com.au/news/2023/04/11/why-buckley-disagrees-with-afl-tribunals-lynch-call/

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Re: Lynch cleared by the tribunal [update]
« Reply #79 on: April 13, 2023, 06:53:07 AM »
Buckley on AFL 360 last night was still saying Lynch should have been suspended but he then added he would love to coach Lynch because he's an old-fashioned forward who takes players in his path out at every marking contest.

Remember Buckley was coach of Collingwood when Lynch chose us over them  :lol.




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Re: Lynch cleared by the tribunal [update]
« Reply #80 on: April 13, 2023, 06:54:48 AM »
"The AFL has to own it – just remove the tribunals from the system." - Barrett.

After more tribunal drama, is it time for an overhaul to the league's match review structure?

https://twitter.com/FootyonNine/status/1646124312238387202


Yeah, let's change the rules again because it's Richmond ::).

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Re: Lynch cleared by the tribunal [update]
« Reply #81 on: April 13, 2023, 07:26:27 AM »
Diabolical.

The AFL got it stuffing wrong ffs.

Even if the AFL appealed they would lose on the legalities and specifics.

They tried to suspend him on outcome and prejudice only.

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Re: Lynch cleared by the tribunal [update]
« Reply #82 on: April 13, 2023, 08:48:57 AM »
Buckley on AFL 360 last night was still saying Lynch should have been suspended but he then added he would love to coach Lynch because he's an old-fashioned forward who takes players in his path out at every marking contest.

Remember Buckley was coach of Collingwood when Lynch chose us over them  :lol.

No one disagrees that Buckley was rightfully called FIGJAM though

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Re: Lynch cleared by the tribunal [update]
« Reply #83 on: April 13, 2023, 10:06:29 AM »
Diabolical.

The AFL got it stuffing wrong ffs.

Even if the AFL appealed they would lose on the legalities and specifics.

They tried to suspend him on outcome and prejudice only.

But Andyy, most of the decisions this season are based more around outcome than the act itself. Look at the sling tackles.

Broad gets 4 weeks in part because the kid was concussed. Weekend just gone 2 sling tackles with wet tea towel outcomes/penalties because no one was concussed. Lynch gets cited solely because of the outcome and media hysteria

Kosi Picket, lines a bloke up, jumps towards him with no eyes for the ball just the man and he gets 2 weeks because Smith bounced up and played on. It is the most cowardly acts I've seen this season because it was so deliberate and it worth ONLY 2 weeks

All about outcome in 2023, not intent, not impact, not the act just oitcome :thumbsdown >:(
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Re: Lynch cleared by the tribunal [update]
« Reply #84 on: April 13, 2023, 02:06:19 PM »
Diabolical.

The AFL got it stuffing wrong ffs.

Even if the AFL appealed they would lose on the legalities and specifics.

They tried to suspend him on outcome and prejudice only.

But Andyy, most of the decisions this season are based more around outcome than the act itself. Look at the sling tackles.

Broad gets 4 weeks in part because the kid was concussed. Weekend just gone 2 sling tackles with wet tea towel outcomes/penalties because no one was concussed. Lynch gets cited solely because of the outcome and media hysteria

Kosi Picket, lines a bloke up, jumps towards him with no eyes for the ball just the man and he gets 2 weeks because Smith bounced up and played on. It is the most cowardly acts I've seen this season because it was so deliberate and it worth ONLY 2 weeks

All about outcome in 2023, not intent, not impact, not the act just oitcome :thumbsdown >:(

And Witherden?

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Re: Lynch cleared by the tribunal [update]
« Reply #85 on: April 13, 2023, 02:42:56 PM »
AFL CEO candidate Andrew Dillon's confidence in the AFL’s match review system also hasn’t been shaken by two verdicts being overturned at the tribunal this week, with Dillon saying this week’s cases of Richmond’s Tom Lynch and Carlton’s Harry McKay show the system works.

Lynch was sent straight to the tribunal on a rough conduct charge, meaning a suggested suspension of three or more matches by match review officer (MRO) Michael Christian. But Lynch was cleared by a tribunal hearing and avoided any ban.

“I am never disappointed because for me it’s more about the process and it’s a robust process that we have got in place,” Dillon said.

“Tom got to provide evidence and it was done in an open forum and everyone heard that and we were comfortable with that decision.”

“The MRO is a crucial part of the way we regulate the on-field behaviour of the players,” Dillon said. “But ... I am comfortable with the way the MRO is working. And the tribunal provides an opportunity for a player who has been charged to have their say.

“The system has been working well and [I am] really comfortable with it.”

Source: The Age.

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Re: Lynch cleared by the tribunal [update]
« Reply #86 on: April 13, 2023, 05:48:31 PM »
What’s with these pretentious people , calling players like they know them on a first name basis  , what a Dill
Who’s this bloke think he is , a white magot, green slime etc

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Re: Lynch cleared by the tribunal [update]
« Reply #87 on: April 13, 2023, 05:50:33 PM »
What’s with these pretentious people , calling players like they know them on a first name basis  , what a Dill
Who’s this bloke think he is , a white magot, green slime etc
If the AFL boys club gets its way, he'll be the next AFL CEO.
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