Shaun Smith, who is the father of Brayshaw’s teammate Joel and suffered repeated concussions in his career, described the AFL as an “embarrassment and an absolute joke”.
The AFL has been contacted for comment on whether it will appeal the tribunal decision.
Replying to responses, Smith labelled the verdict as “absolutely disgusting” and called the AFL a “disgusting organisation”.In dismissing the rough conduct charge laid by AFL operations boss Laura Kane and match review officer Michael Christian “We accept that a reasonable player would have foreseen at the moment of committing to the act of smothering that some impact with Brayshaw was possible. But we find that it was not inevitable from the perspective of a player in Maynard’s position,” tribunal chair Jeff Gleeson said in a lengthy judgment.
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