WATCH: Toby Greene sent straight to tribunal for serious misconduct

By any measure, the repeat offender, Greene is an out of control player, and without question, this was a continuous and aggressive and aggravated attack on Bontempelli, indefensible, and defended by one of the AFL’s own, former Operations Manager, Adrian Anderson. (wink wink nudge nudge, we’ll together get him off). This decision by the Tribunal was, as the saying goes ‘an inside job’. The decision lacked complete integrity. Bontempelli got up after the incident with a bloodied face. What a terrible example for youngsters to observe. The AFL is accountable to the public too here; it failed badly. Greene got off because the AFL will go to any length to prop up GWS.How pathetic is that. It did that in the face of overwhelming agreement with the match review panel that the act was serious misconduct, and thus it sent the matter directly to the Tribunal. Also it was clear to commentators across the board that Greene indeed was in trouble, and we all expected a player suspension of certainly more than one or two weeks. It is manifestly clear that Greene needs to also undertake an anger management course in addition to a suspension. I might be wrong on this point, but if not, it seems that the AFL has decided to push this under the carpet too, ie there will be no anger management course requirement for Greene. The final point is about fairness. This wrong decision not to suspend Greene is unfair to teams in the finals, giving GWS the opportunity to play him, when in fact he should not be on the ground.

What rubbish. Paint your own fiction.

This is absolutely disgusting. What is wrong with the AFL. My 8 year old nephew was watching the game (I wasn’t there) and saw the replay and now thinks it is okay to eye gouge, scratch a player, forearm to the back of the back of the neck, force a players face into the dirt and pull hair while a player is pinned down. For those that say they didn’t see anything get glasses and watch the replay from different angles. (and no I’m not a bulldogs supporter) WHAT A DIRTY COWARD Toby Greene is! I said to my Nephew, No this is not acceptable, and he will be suspended for a minimum 3 to 4 weeks, but no he gets off with another fine! What is wrong with the AFL, and what message are they giving young kids.

Bulldogs players aren't angels when it comes to this sort of stuff. Inevitable that they would get some in return, especially after Bont slung Kelly to the ground. Brereton was at the Giants for a while, I suspect he gave them a 'line in the sand'-style talk at some point.

They gave young Toby a fine They said Toby your but is mine Get up to the Gabba And no one will blabber We'll take care of the bottom line.

There was a small giant named Toby As pale and Rare as old Moby He scratched a new font On the face of the Bont Made his face into tomatobi

There once was on old AFL But that one went straight to hell The new one is here So let's all have a beer Cos the FIFA is here can't you tell

Agreed. 6 games suspension for Toby from 16 charges across his career begs the question: What interests do the AFL have in seeing the Giants's best player avoid suspension? And why is seeing it's western Sydney experiment succeed more important than discouraging cowardice thuggery? If the bulldogs could be confident the same acts committed on Greene by them would only result in a monetary fine, I reckon they would enthusiastically enter every game against the Giants with pre-meditated plans to fork out money. But the only time I can recall the Dogs remonstrating against countless cheap-shot from the Giants over the last 5 years was Jack Redpath for retaliating to Phil Davis - and Big Red got suspended. The Dogs players must feel like their disciplined approach isn't worth it when Giants players continually get away with fines for grub acts.

Greene is lucky he only made unnecessary contact to Bontempelli's face. He'd have got two weeks if he'd instead decided to pinch Bontempelli's arm a few times.

The AFL website is the just one arm of the AFL propaganda machine.

That's right, GWS is a product not a footy club. It's a very unlikable product too.

Potentially dangerous, but not a sling tackle. GWS supporters aren't any more one-eyed than anyone else, they just don't understand footy. They call umpires "refs" for starters.

There's no point creating an entity like GWS to capture that enormous market of Western Sydney unless you back it up with the correct promotional tools (like wins and rules and stars). It's just business. This was a business decision made by businessmen. To adhere a sporting culture application would be missing the point. We all agree GWS exists so let it perform it's role.

Finals time so the Barry Hall rules are applied. Stars can punch, eye gouge & throw people into fences and it's okay.

Disgracefully inadequate penalty somehow described on the afl website as a massive fine. The fact Someone with a terrible record can perform such a grubby act and not miss a game only invites the conclusion that the AFL want their newest franchise to win finals

A corrupt system is too strong, so let’s settle for revenue driven .. seriously..... I love natanui... but ..... If that was Glenn Archer who threw the Bomber into the fence he would have got two weeks. Then Toby....love watching him.... another crowd puller Overnight there is suddenly no ‘potential consequence’ taken into account....like broken back ...breaking the fixture...being seriously gashed.... or a serious eye injury All about revenue.

6 weeks? Must still be hurting from the flogging. That would be more than Libba Snr got for trying to scratch a blokes face off.

I go for North but anyway. Why don't you reckon it was a sling tackle? Dangerous tackle then? The umps, who presumably know the rules, paid one against Mumford when the tackled lad didn't even donk his head. Wherever you come from the rules go out the window as far as the spectator is concerned. GWS supporters are no worse than I've seen and considerably less one eyed than most.

Chris Fagan should order a load of snow for Saturday night. They came good on Saturday, completely neutralised the Doggies, should match up ok against the Lions and the Pies if they get the chance.

You can actually see the point in the video when Greene realises it Bontempelli on the ground, before that he was just puching the other bulldogs player, then all of a sudden he is scratching at Bontempelli's head like a kid with a Christmas present. Clearly they were under instructions