A spate of ugly tackles marred the opening round of the AFL. One superstar wants offenders punished mid-game, with a radical new rule idea.
"Watching the NRL, when that stuff happens, they get sin-binned and I don't mind that for our game," he said.
Under the league's current MRO and tribunal processes, reportable offences and their corresponding sanctions are graded on the intention of the conduct, its impact and where it occurred on the body. "I don't agree with that. I think it should be the action that gets punished. They are not football actions.
"The action to go past the footy and execute a bump to the head is a starting point of two weeks. If you knock a player out, it's elevated from there. I just can't accept how we're still saying that's a one-week suspension, I can't have that," he told SEN's" were rugby league-type hits. They are set and drive and drill," he continued.
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