Ports Finlayson says one word - apologies profusely - 3 weeks . Cameron's 6th rough conduct charge - real potential for concussion - zero penalty. The AFL is a joke

Guys, there is no "confusion". The AFL have different rules for different clubs and players. Where's the confusion.

Does anyone believe that marketing doesn't run this sport?

Bartel saying football acts and non-football acts like it’s so simple. Where in reality it would be another additional lens of ambiguity, to confuse more, that serves little purpose.

Anyone who thinks the afl is fair is kidding themselves. Different rules depending on who you are and who you play for

Just come out and say there was insufficient force to warrant a suspension. It's easy and people would accept it. They're just muddying the waters otherwise.

The day matthew lloyd says people should be suspended for rptating their hips and protevting their own head ya know the afl has created a situayion they dont know how to deal with. Scott pendlebury wrote an article like 10 years ago now. about the flow on effects of people leading with their head instead of rotsting with their hips in and out of a contest. Joel selwood started the leading with your head trend. The afl shouldve put rules in place then to stop it.

Minimal contact to ground on that one Butters should have been suspended

Finlayson should never have been rubbed out.

How does this measure up against Peter Wright's 4 weeks? His character and history are excelent.

Well how hypocrisy that Eddie pointing out Charlie when Maynard got off

Different rules for different clubs - different rules for different players. It's been going on for decades in the AFL. Cameron gets off an offense he pleaded guilty to, becasue someone or everone int he AFL tribunal is corrupt.

Lever pointed his own head at the ground. Enough said. Joke it was even looked at

Wonder if he would have been allowed character witnesses if he were white? doubtful....The MRO should be removed - it has been and remains to be a joke, the umpires are confused about what is and what isn't a dangerous tackle...I saw a couple called recently including Camerons - and they were both looked at for DT but neither were anything close to a sling tackle...They are turning the game into Touch Footy and it is only 3 seasons away from not being to lay tackles at all at this rate. The MRO needs people who UNDERSTAND the rules and also understand how quickly the game moves in real life.

Fundamentally, there is multiple generations playing the game. The guys who were taught to attack the ball like an intersection- once you go you go and then there is this new generation of player who thinks the opponent is going to look after him and not attack it’s so hard. Have been saying this for years.

The whiplash from Lever flinging his head, probably did more damage than the Cameron tackle

Lever flinged his head with the tackle lol at what point does the afl place some responsibility on the player being tackled when they have an arm free and play for the free kick? Also the tribunal stated they wouldnt take into account the off field character of the player. How has every single media outlet not read the actual hearing? I get its for clicks but every single one of them has glossed over the fact his character off field got shut down the moment they made the point, it wasnt a loophole they literally disregarded it. It got downgraded because it was a low impact hit, Lever was completely fine and actively contributed to the momentum. To me it felt like the tribunal was admitting he leaned and threw himself into the ground too but they cant say that. The AFl really needs to crack down on it because players have been getting away with it and baiting frees for a couple of years now

How the hell is that a fine? 0 weeks. $0.

What’s the confusion? There have been different standards and rules for different players for a long time. Popular media darlings like Butters and Charlie get ejudicated differently. If the butters/banfield incident had been reversed, Banfield absolutely cops a week.

MRO and tribunal is a joke. If 2 players genuinely go for the ball at the same time, 1 has his head over it like an idiot, and the other has his body protecting the space? How can you suspend him for having a better technique?!... Bad luck for putting your face in the most vulnerable position on the field. Protect yourself at all times... Otherwise eventually just literally ban 2 people going for the ball at the same time... Disgraceful

Are we playing netball or AFL footy? There was nothing in either of butters and crouches bumps. Early 2000s footy was so much harder

also additionally to my previous comment, eddie sooking about people putting their heads down to draw free kicks is potentially the funniest bit of content of this century after the last 4 years of sooking about ginninvan's treatment

Eddie's summary on the money. No one in footy thinks that's worth a week, they were looking for excuses to reel it back.

I have to strongly disagree with Damo on this one. The last thing we need is for the AFL to become judge jury and executioner. We need an independent body to make rulings on contentious issues that every stakeholder will inevitably never ever all agree on the outcomes. If it was all up to the AFL, who are you appealing to? It would become incredibly biased and I think they would focus on player protection rather than balance of rights for both player (victim and offender) regardless of plaintiff and defendant and the AFL. We have to work with players on these issues and removing a fair trial process is morally wrong. The current costs are fine. The players and what's at stake are worth the legal representation.

Get the contention and don’t want either to be suspended for that but to say they are the same is just silly. Crouch shoulder first and arms in, Butters had hands down for the ball. Christian’s explanation reasonable but neither should be a suspension.

Players are exploiting dangerous tackle free kicks by slamming their own head into the ground. Just like how they exploited head highs by ducking and shrugging.

The worst decision since Barry Hall was cleared to play in the 2006 GF. No coincidence that both Hall and Cameron play for AFL favored clubs

I was surprised Crouch only got 1 week. So, you can imagine how I felt when Butters got no punishment. Especially when the AFL hand out penalties like election flyers.

Butters didnt get a week so charlie didnt, port fans are mad for some reason lmfao

The AFL tribunal is doing everything it can to get a win for all the players suing the AFL

Clearly 2 different sets of rules. Depends on your skin color.

Scrap the tribunal and get on with the afl

The afl need to start dishing out suspensions for players who consistently dive. If they are truely concerned about protecting the head everytime a player slams his own head on the ground to try and milk a free give him a week and see if the idiot wants to keep slamming his head on the ground. Same for players who run around with their head down head butting blokes then flip to the ground when they feel contact to the head give them a week. Diving is the worst part of the game and it needs to be stamped out. They should’ve made an example out of Joel Selwood years ago but they label him a hero now every young player runs around with his head down trying to milk a high contact free kick

The game has become so sanitised, so soft, that I made a decision to follow the NRL. I've bought membership to an NRL club based in Sydney. I never thought I'd leave our once great game.

Remember when Houli's character reference was thrown out, and right so. So why is it acceptable now?

I was suspended once in 550 games, I called the Umpire a F***ing idiot back in 1992 and got a 4 week holiday. I wasn't lying either LOL. The tribunal at the time said I was made an example of because the Umpires were getting regular abuse and they couldn't get and keep umpires. I reckon I was a bit stiff. I thought they were "cracking down" on dangerous tackles. Deserved at least a week and apparently its the 6th time he got off. I am not going to mention the elephant in the room but Toby Green should feel pretty aggrieved about "a rule for me and a different rule for thee".

Sorry Damo, but is Eddie Betts vouches for him, he's not getting suspended!

If there is one thing absolutely certain to happen during a football season it is that the media are going to have a big whinge about the inconsistencies of the AFL tribunal. Sick of hearing about it. Impossible to get it perfect every time. Just accept that lots of different people, either players, supporters, or journalists will have different views on what penalties should get handed out. Lets just accept it, like a poor umpiring decision if you disagree, and move on.

Go Pies!

I was happy with the one game ban because I thought it was fair (could’ve even been more). I feel like the AFL have been way too focussed on results instead of actions. A player can collide with another player doing nothing wrong and a concussion can occur. I don’t believe that collision should result in a suspension because we have to allow for accidents in our game. The Charlie Cameron accident was a dump tackle and it’s an action we have been conditioned to believe is likely to cause injury. If Charlie Cameron and Jake Lever re-enacted that sequence 10x, it’s almost guaranteed that a few of them would result in concussions. The AFL have got very backwards logic at the moment and it’s making it very difficult to 1. officiate, and 2. maintain consistency.

Listen Ed Had been Collingwood Your head is Exploding😂😂😂That was a big dump 1 to 2 weeks No need for it!

Michael Christian has to go!

It’s all kafabe. Charlie is playing the baby face, Lever playing the heel.

Eddie betts lmao. Was 100% his idea

Butters lined him up....

if you're a full time athlete in a contact sport and you can't handle a 95kg bloke falling on you, get in the gym if you're a full time athlete in your 11th season of the highest flight and can't handle a 95kg bloke falling on you, get a new job that's embarrassing

It's ridiculous that the fines don't count toward reputation! Just from the eye test, Charlie Cameron is a mean spirited player and bit of a dog. He broke Howe's ribs in the granny and I've seen him do plenty of dog shots off the ball which probably amount to some of those fines. All the fines were for striking and rough conduct! How is that indicative of good character. It's the same kind of behaviour over and over again... Should've got a week!

We all know the reason. It's because he's aboriginal and the AFL doesn't want to offend them.

AFL tribunal laughing stock of the sporting world

2:20 oh great.. let's get barrett to be the brains of the operation 🤮

Christian has always been the problem. How can one person making these decisions be so inconsistent

How is that nonsense, the Butter’s slide in is different from Crouch, one is head on one isn’t. Crouch folded and had his head/neck crunch, Butters slid in and his hip hit his side and arm, not his head.

Pickett gets suspended week before for glancing contact based on potential harm. Butters possible Brownlow- nothing to see here. Joke.

Confusion …? It’s suppose to be confusing..the afl wants that .. then everyone talks about it ..the afl is playing everyone ..so just watch the games and forget about all the morons talking about football between games .. there all over paid for talking crap 💩 about Crap 💩

Shouldn't have been reported one bit. But now, this entire process has been exposed as a joke. Character references due to his ethnicity and I thought we weren't allowed to comment on player weights due to hurting their feelings?

Watch out now if Charlie is overly abused for next few games and racial vilification is blamed

The AFL can dress it up in as much pompous verbal diarrhea as they like. But at the end of the day the words translate into: "Butters was cleared, because reasons."

Gillon started killing the league, Dillon is continuing his work. Clown show at AFL house.

Footy on Nine, This is so fun! I'm happy I found your channel!

There are two reasons he got off. One, he is black and these days coloured people have to get special treatment or you'll be called racist. The other reason is they don't want Geelong to beat Brisbane this week. And if the umpiring is bad against us, it will only confirm in my mind that the match was fixed to begin with.

Christian is dottering old fool ...seriously a dinosaur 🦕..Christian said no contact ....we have had 6 players leave the game in last 6 months

Eddie is so out of touch

The marketing department runs things He is a high profile player Like butts Crouch is less high profile so got suspended The (silent) criteria is fame and popularity This is just theatre

And again, your profile in the sport decides if you get suspended. More proof of corruption in the sport.

PLAY THE GAME AND CUT THE CRAP💩💩💩

Dei

Dillion is a wet fish

That tackle didn’t offend the woke like Finlaysons word did.

This is what happens when you put women in charge 😂 you actually thought there’d be more clarity?

Does anyone still watch this sport 😂🤷‍♂️ I was born a Carlton supporter and I can’t even bring myself to watch this crap. Rules are crap. Tribunal is crap. Game is crap. Draft is crap. Draw is crap. We can’t even do better than a GoPro on a goal post for our review system 🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️ This sport is no better than WWE. It’s sad people waste their lives on this crap.

Lever should've been rubbed out for milking it and being so weak that someone half his size dropped him

First nations get different treatment

It's the reason why this game isn't played world wide. There are no rules,only interpretation s. Embarrassing

Cameron lined up Howe in the GF last year, hit him late in a deliberate act to cause harm. He succeeded in breaking his ribs. Cameron has plenty of form.

Crouch did it perfectly as a footballer trying to get the ball and protect himself. In the new litigation world in wich we live that the AFL is bowing down to he should have got 6. The chance for serious injury was high. Butters was exactly what you want from that type of player trying to win the ball but again in this new world should have been graded reckless with the glancing nature 1 game. Camerons shouldn't have gone to the tribunal to start with but since it did and they are saying its the action they're trying to get rid of should have had his one game ban upheld. Are they tring to say his character makes it less dangerous?? Its asinine. Where talking a player that looks to hurt other players at any chance he gets.

Since the sling tackle made news, All tackled players sling now, No matter what rules you make, the players go for the money, Just let the game play

Charlie Cameron reminds me of a movie 'The Untouchables'. Against Carlton he cleaned up a Carlton Player in the last 1/4, I think it was McGovern, lined him up and shoulder into his ribs. McGovern was running to the ball, Charlie wasn't. Charlie wasn't even cited.

Sometimes the colour of your skin does matter .

The Mardi Gras game with rainbows