Essendon coach and former AFL football boss Brad Scott is unhappy with the league’s “guilty-unless-you-can-prove-your-innocence system”, while Sydney are challenging the severity of the VFL’s six-match ban handed to veteran Luke Parker
Essendon coach Brad Scott will call for a review of the AFL Tribunal at the end of the year, saying the system makes it too difficult for clubs to challenge suspensions.
“I think as a club we’ll be seeking a review of the system at the end of the year. We feel like we’re having both arms tied behind our back. Our fans need to understand the tribunal isn’t an innocent-until-proven-guilty system, it’s a guilty-unless-you-can-prove-your-innocence system.
Bryan’s fate will likely hinge on whether the Dons return to two frontline rucks or if veteran Todd Goldstein is rested for a game many expect the club to comfortably win.six-match ban handed to veteran Luke ParkerThe Swans accept Parker should be banned but believe six matches is excessive, despite Frankston’s Josh Smith suffering concussion and multiple fractures to his eye socket and cheekbone. Sydney had called for the base four-game suspension at the tribunal.
The Swans had argued at the tribunal that Parker’s conduct was on the “very low” end of unreasonableness and carelessness as Smith should have expected contact, and that Parker had slowed down as he approached his opponent and laid the bump.
“Parker, having breached his duty of care when he engaged in the bump, accepts in cross examination he had alternative actions, which the Tribunal finds he did have that he could have taken rather than to bump.”If the penalty stands, Parker will not be available for Swans senior selection until round 18 but may be out for longer as he would have missed close to two months of football by then.
“The nature of the beast is that teams are going to figure out what we’re doing now and keep coming after us,” Swans defender Dane Rampe said.
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