AFL: On AFL 360, Gerard Whateley and Mark Robinson declare their confusion over the state of umpiring amid furore over the Essendon vs Geelong game.
Pointing to a moment where North Melbourne’s Jackson Archer’s arm caught Weightman high as the small forward lowered his body, having already been caught high moments earlier, Beveridge said: “Are you condoning, 80 metres or however far away from the play it is, that players can do that?“All he’s done is try to get out of a headlock! And yet he’s been criticised for it. Are you serious?”“You know I’m gonna dance down the pitch on this one.
“Sometimes we’re talking continuums, and if we’ve got bravery up this end and cowardice up this end, Cody Weightman almost falls off the threshold on the bravery end of the continuum. “We’re talking about a young fella who’s played with a dislocated elbow, three times that’s happened before he’s needed to fix it with surgery, and he plays with a velocity and a courage like the best small forwards do it in the game, that’s why he’s such a good player.
“And there wasn’t one of the decisions that was made that wasn’t correct. So how he can get caught in the crosshairs is beyond me. Now I’ll assess him up this end, the ones who are pointing the finger at him, they’ve got to self-assess as to where they sit on the continuum. But he’s a star, he’s got that much courage and I’ll protect him and go into bat for him for however the day is long.
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