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Western Bulldog's Barry Hall during the AFL NAB Cup Round 02 match between the Hawthorn Hawks and the Western Bulldogs at Etihad Stadium, Melbourne. Slattery Images
That Barry Hall has effectively escaped penalty is a ridiculous result at the match review panel. That Hall was provoked is undeniable.
Hall engaged in a vicious sleeper hold and sustained that hold for an extended period of time. This should have seen him rubbed out for multiple weeks.
I don’t often agree with Mike Sheehan.
However, yesterday, Sheehan was right on the mark about the seriousness of Hall’s choker hold.
What has also been astounding is the input of coaches Eade, and Ratten. They have illustrated again why coaches should be seen and not heard at such times to allow the Match Review Committee to operate without their decision being compromised by public pressure.
We saw the NRL have their own issues with the grapple tackle. Storm captain Cameron Smith was suspended for two weeks back in 2008 and missed the sharp end of the finals.
These sort of attacks on players on a footy field should not be condoned. And with a feeble fine, the match review panel has effectively done that for Barry Hall.
This is a ridiculous decision by the match review panel and set’s an ordinary precedent. That being said, they can tend to be so inconsistent that not much seems to hold as a precedent.
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