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If it hadn’t already come under enough scrutiny, the MRP hit an all time low this week.
Mark Robinson hit the nail on the head tonight on AFL 360 when he made reference to Nathan Fyfe. Here we have a player, likely to poll extremely well in the Brownlow, ineligible due to the MRP’s appraisal of what most in the footy world labelled a textbook hip and shoulder. He received two weeks.
Just last week, Tyrone Vickery blatantly stiff arms Dean Cox in the jaw, knocks him out, and receives four weeks.
Yesterday Reece Conca was handed a two-week suspension for chasing someone down on his way to the bench and elbowing him in the back of the head.
Please.
Nathan Fyfe is an angel compared to the guys in the above example.
To make matters worse, Johnson was looking at one week for a knee to the stomach, but got off.
And let’s not forget Daniel Merrett – whose elbow is still being recovered from Pederson’s face – will be allowed to play this week.
Tell me I am wrong, but there is a massive issue with the system.
Barry Hall received seven weeks for his hit on Brent Staker. At the time, there were enough people calling for a similar ban for Vickery due to the severity of the hit. I personally felt Conca deserved every bit of four to five weeks for his act of stupidity.
The problem with the system is that it leaves out one very import factor when arriving at the activation points.
Stupidity.
We learnt that Conca’s hit was intentional, low impact and high contact resulting in seven activation points. As a result it drew 325 points which is three matches and that can be reduced to two weeks with an early plee.
I think it is time we add in a behavioural scale that looks at the stupidity level of these guys. Conca would get 10 out of 10, another 100 odd points and that would see him rubbed out for 4-5 as he should have been.
Vickery gets the 5-6 weeks he should have. Nathan Fyfe gets a reduction for a text book bump that was a 0 out of 10 on the stupidity scale and he gets off with a reprimand.
I can hear people saying, “what a farce? A stupidity level”. Well it could not be more farcical than what we are being dished up at the moment.
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