BecauseIHaveTo

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I’ll start by saying that I agree with every one of Paul’s responses because they are sensible, well reasoned and basically true. I ‘d love to hear how O’meara could have protected himself from a guy that decided to canon into him. Turn his back and risk worse injuries, raise an elbow, back away, take the feotal position or miraculously contort himself in some other way and still mark the ball? You say that Plowman was committed, but then you suggest that O’Meara needed to not be committed and take his full focus off the ball and protect himself. Anyone that has ever tried to protect themself in a marking contest will tell you that they weren’t totally focused on marking the ball. That then begs the question: how could Plowman have been committed to get the ball when he changed his mind and decided to brace for contact? We get the old split second garbage in these conversations and it makes me laugh because it implies that the player doesn’t have a brain that processes information at the speed of most people. It’s even funnier when someone like Dangerfield uses it himself and basically calls himself an idiot, but that’s another story. A normal brain processes information in milliseconds or less. He knew long before he reached O’Meara that he wasn’t going to get there in time to punch the ball without leaving himself wide open, so he chose to run into him and use the force to knock the ball free. He could simply have avoided him, but he chose, yes chose, to bump rather than avoid him and knocked him out. Suspension every day of the week, regardless of what you think Robbo was saying. And saying that he had his fist up so he was trying to spoil the ball isn’t fooling anyone and if it had been O’Meara that flattened Plowman and not the other way around, you’d agree.

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