Non Richmond Games 2025

[WilliamPowell]

Why is the WankFL suggesting it should be 1 match?

How is this supposedly less of an issue than the Mansell one?

Bollocks

Outcome, Bomber played out the game. The bloke Mansell pushed did not

Not saying it's right or fair, just that will be the reason

[Andyy]

Why is the WankFL suggesting it should be 1 match?

How is this supposedly less of an issue than the Mansell one?

Bollocks

Outcome, Bomber played out the game. The bloke Mansell pushed did not

Not saying it's right or fair, just that will be the reason

Potentialllll to cause harm

[Damo]

Why is the WankFL suggesting it should be 1 match?

How is this supposedly less of an issue than the Mansell one?

Bollocks

Outcome, Bomber played out the game. The bloke Mansell pushed did not

Not saying it's right or fair, just that will be the reason

Potentialllll to cause harm

Agree Andyy

In the Mansell one, lynch or the opponent could have been wiped out
In the Shiel one, Lual of the opponent could have been wiped out

Both dog acts IMO

Potential to cause harm is massive in both instances

[one-eyed]

The AFL Tribunal has handed Essendon veteran Dylan Shiel a one-match ban for his push that put teammate Luamon Lual in a vulnerable position in Friday night's match against Geelong.

https://www.afl.com.au/news/1388249

[one-eyed]

The AFL tribunal cracked down on pushing opponents into contests last week, yet Taylor Walker might escape a ban for the same thing this week.

https://x.com/superfooty/status/1956883968596591089


No surprise. The AFL/MRO/Tribunal is consistently inconsistent.

[Francois Jackson]

fly that smug prick must be laughing tonight. Likely plays the crows without rankine.

What an absolute joke. You can basically call someone that at school without consequence but the AFL finds it very offensive, despite the players likely not being gay.

Like calling someone a blk man when they are actually a white man

[wayne]

fly that smug prick must be laughing tonight. Likely plays the crows without rankine.

What an absolute joke. You can basically call someone that at school without consequence but the AFL finds it very offensive, despite the players likely not being gay.

Like calling someone a blk man when they are actually a white man

Good old knee jerk AFL. When they make some of the rules, do they ever have someone who is the voice of reason? Dangerous tackle, 5 weeks. What if it's a fair tackle, but bad outcome? Still 5. Slur? 5 weeks. What if it's a big star and he will miss finals? 5 weeks.

This is worse case scenario for them, finals, top of the ladder team, one of the biggest stars in the comp, that's why it's dragging on so long, but they can't not go hard on him.

Riak Andrew. Who? 5 weeks. Jack Graham, meh, good ordinary player, 4 weeks. Will Powell, give him weeks, no one will notice. Rankine.... damn, he's not supposed to do this.

Should have always been a huge fine (financial sanctions always hurt players more than weeks) and an education course.

The next rule/regulation that will backfire on the AFL will be the pre-finals bye. Daicos, Neale, Jezza Cameron will have a preliminary final HIA and miss the GF. Should be a pre GF bye.

[Francois Jackson]

fly that smug prick must be laughing tonight. Likely plays the crows without rankine.

What an absolute joke. You can basically call someone that at school without consequence but the AFL finds it very offensive, despite the players likely not being gay.

Like calling someone a blk man when they are actually a white man

Good old knee jerk AFL. When they make some of the rules, do they ever have someone who is the voice of reason? Dangerous tackle, 5 weeks. What if it's a fair tackle, but bad outcome? Still 5. Slur? 5 weeks. What if it's a big star and he will miss finals? 5 weeks.

This is worse case scenario for them, finals, top of the ladder team, one of the biggest stars in the comp, that's why it's dragging on so long, but they can't not go hard on him.

Riak Andrew. Who? 5 weeks. Jack Graham, meh, good ordinary player, 4 weeks. Will Powell, give him weeks, no one will notice. Rankine.... damn, he's not supposed to do this.

Should have always been a huge fine (financial sanctions always hurt players more than weeks) and an education course.

The next rule/regulation that will backfire on the AFL will be the pre-finals bye. Daicos, Neale, Jezza Cameron will have a preliminary final HIA and miss the GF. Should be a pre GF bye.

they are the biggest fools known to man. Snoop. All good he is a clean singer like Sinatra before his time.

Rankine should get nothing just like each one of those men before him. Funny thing is you can call a kid in a playground or online much worse before they go off and neck themselves but on a footy field you cant call someone they aren't. Unless they actually are 

no wonder people call it gy AFL.

[one-eyed]

Adelaide superstar Izak Rankine could yet play in the 2025 Grand Final after the AFL finally handed down its sanction for a homophobic slur.

Rankine has been banned four games for directing a homophobic slur at a Collingwood player last Saturday.

It means if Adelaide loses its qualifying final but still makes the Grand Final, he would be eligible to return for the decider.

https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/afl-2025-izak-rankine-to-be-investigated-for-alleged-homophobic-slur-adelaide-crows-win-over-collingwood-magpies-how-many-games-will-he-miss-latest-news/news-story/b54d4930cc838c9c5d97a9d0fafc9591

https://www.afl.com.au/news/1397495/afl-ceo-andrew-dillon-defends-snoop-dogg-grand-final-call-after-adelaide-crows-player-izak-rankine-ban-for-use-of-homophobic-slur

[Francois Jackson]

balmy would be filthy with this carry on.

balmy the guy who some said was washed up 

[WilliamPowell]

fly that smug prick must be laughing tonight. Likely plays the crows without rankine.

What an absolute joke. You can basically call someone that at school without consequence but the AFL finds it very offensive, despite the players likely not being gay.

Like calling someone a blk man when they are actually a white man

You are right with your the school yard analogy but in yhis case to the the letter of the law we are talking about a workplace. And IR laws you cannot say it and get away with it

What is pathetic is the final outcome, penalty

Just another example of the gutless and weak AFL flip flopping and making rules on the run.

Dunstall on Fox Footy last night was 100% correct. What does "compelling medical submission"? mean. He went onto say if they using mental health as the reason then what's to stop platers in the future using it to get out of a suspension?

And I just read on X (twitter) a great point someone has made. Adelaide when they weren't contending had no issue with Walker's 6 week ban for a racial slur but now that they are contending they have an issuecwith 5 weeks for a homophones slur.

balmy would be filthy with this carry on.

balmy the guy who some said was washed up 

I think you might be very wrong. Think you might find he'd be bloody peeved with what Rankin did.

[Francois Jackson]

fly that smug prick must be laughing tonight. Likely plays the crows without rankine.

What an absolute joke. You can basically call someone that at school without consequence but the AFL finds it very offensive, despite the players likely not being gay.

Like calling someone a blk man when they are actually a white man

You are right with your the school yard analogy but in yhis case to the the letter of the law we are talking about a workplace. And IR laws you cannot say it and get away with it

What is pathetic is the final outcome, penalty

Just another example of the gutless and weak AFL flip flopping and making rules on the run.

Dunstall on Fox Footy last night was 100% correct. What does "compelling medical submission"? mean. He went onto say if they using mental health as the reason then what's to stop platers in the future using it to get out of a suspension?

And I just read on X (twitter) a great point someone has made. Adelaide when they weren't contending had no issue with Walker's 6 week ban for a racial slur but now that they are contending they have an issuecwith 5 weeks for a homophones slur.

balmy would be filthy with this carry on.

balmy the guy who some said was washed up 

I think you might be very wrong. Think you might find he'd be bloody peeved with what Rankin did.

i very much doubt that.  In my conversations with him he is very much old school and what happens on field stays on field.

In fact i would say he was front and centre in getting this watered down to 4.

On your first point it was absolutely wild the crap that was coming out of Dillons mouth. They are the biggest hypocritical organization in the country.

I don't put racial slurs directed at a blk man and this in the same breath, but that's me.

Rankine made a mistake in that he even apologised to Quaynor. If the shoe was on the other foot Eddie would be front and centre and i think Quaynor would have got off.

[WilliamPowell]

i very much doubt that.  In my conversations with him he is very much old school and what happens on field stays on field.

In fact i would say he was front and centre in getting this watered down to 4.

On your first point it was absolutely wild the crap that was coming out of Dillons mouth. They are the biggest hypocritical organization in the country.

I don't put racial slurs directed at a blk man and this in the same breath, but that's me.

Rankine made a mistake in that he even apologised to Quaynor. If the shoe was on the other foot Eddie would be front and centre and i think Quaynor would have got off.

Balmy might be old school on a lot of things but when it comes to respecting people he's straight down the line and he'd be peeved, not a doubt in my mind. I doubt he was front and centre in anything. But let's agree to disagree

It doesn't matter that Rankine apologised, every player who's been rubbed out for homophobic slurs apologises. So please don't make it sound like he's done anything major there. Others have self reported, Rankine didn't. So therefore up until yesterday fail to self report and the penalty was 5 weeks

Whether you agree with the penalty or the entire situation is irrelevant. I am peeved because yet again the gutless AFL has set another precedent with their rules on the run crap.

I don't listen to what Dillon says because everything that comes out of his mouth is spin to suit the situation. He has zero consistency in his messaging on anything he speaks about. Which means he has zero credibility. He is a pathetic leader who is continually shown to be way out of his depth

But apart from that he's doing a stellar job.

[Chuck17]

If it was Lynch he would have gotten six weeks

[Francois Jackson]

Exactly Chuck. WP i think you misunderstood what i meant. I don't think Rankin should have apologised for anything, and i don't think anyone before him should have either.

lets be honest here if it was that important to do the right thing then why was it okay for a lions player to grab Mills balls. Is inappropriate touching less relevant in society than calling someone a fgt who clearly isn't.

The wokefl is littered with Hypocrisy, when it wants to (Lynch).

The whole thing is laughable and Balmy would be laughing how pathetic is. Dimma had similar thoughts the other night without actually saying.