Essendon forward Peter Wright will spend the next four matches on the sidelines after he was handed a lengthy ban by the AFL Tribunal.
There has been a strong reaction after Essendon’s Peter Wright learned his fate for his sickening high shot on Harry Cunningham.
“The AFL would like a four-match ban, Essendon are obviously seeing if they can get that down to three matches, which is the minimum for this kind of incident.“Either way he’s missing three matches at the very least.” The Tribunal still opted for the month-long ban the AFL had been seeking and there was a strong response on social media.“The sport is cooked,” wrote another.Ihle says by pleading guilty Wright is adopting evolving community standards"perhaps in a way where his conduct ... maybe even two years ago, would have been much more defensible.
The Maynard-Brayshaw incident was similar to Wright’s bump on Cunningham and Carey argued players should still be allowed to “attack the footy”.“It’s just gone too far for me,” said Carey, who won two premierships with North Melbourne in the 1990s. “Players are going to be petrified to even go at the footy hard. Players are going to be tiptoeing around the footy and not wanting to attack the footy. Is that what we want to turn this game into?”
“It just doesn’t sit easy with me when you watch it in slow-motion to say ‘he had other options’. We know how fast the game is. They’re coming at each other a million miles an hour and it’s instinctive.Wright’s bump on Cunningham was the flashpoint in a fiery contest between the Bombers and Swans at the SCG on Saturday night.
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