Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Chief sports reporter here at SEN is Sammy Edmund for Club Tokenwall, Australia's premier Murray River golfing destination. Morning to you, Sammy. How'd you go with Clarko, Kane? Yeah, fine. Good? Yeah, I'm not sure. I asked the question. About the ban lifted, I'm not sure if we got the definitive answer.
I think he's happy to have you in.
No, I thought it was excellent of him to be able to come by and spend half an hour with us.
Always a good listen. Four more clubs to go. One more club.
It's been a year of mending bridges, actually.
Has it? Yeah. The warming of Kane.
Yep. So where are we at, just for the record? Who's the one club that we're waiting for?
We know the one. It doesn't need to be named, but everyone else was sweet.
Doesn't need to be named.
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Chapter 2: What happened to Aaron Naughton during the game?
You just can't make it up.
I don't know if there's any link between State of Origin and that hammy for Rory Lobb, but how reluctant are clubs going to be to allow their players to play State of Origin?
So do you think the legacy of Origins continuing now until the 24th of April?
Certainly at some clubs.
Yeah, that was a school of thought.
Has Hogan been the same player? Has Taylor been? Has Archie? There's still carnage everywhere. Dangerfield's just come back from his
Lobb had been fine though, but yeah, I know exactly. And that's, I'm agreeing with you to some extent. Clubs had been saying this privately, that there's a cumulative load to these things. Whether we can say that still, I'm not, I don't profess to know, but the bottom line is he's not going to have him for another month.
And the Dogs had eight players with less than 15 games experience out there last night.
Nick. He's going to rock. Well, didn't he miss the game last week against Brisbane, didn't he? With the calf. Cork. More of a cork. More of a cork. Yeah. He missed a bit of training at the start, but I doubt we'll see it in its true form.
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Chapter 3: What are the current injury concerns for the Western Bulldogs?
It reached a new level of bizarre last night. So just to recap, we've had tribunal panel members driving during hearings. We've had dogs barking. We've had dogs walking into the room of King's councils.
We've had the appeals board last night uphold a Lance Collar guilty verdict, but then slash his suspension to the point that the St Kilda forwards actually got a lighter penalty for the second use of homophobic language than the first use. Now, St Kilda's 16-page submission last night carried 10 grounds of appeal, basically based on an error of law.
We won't get into the weeds of how legal it got last night, but essentially they stated, the tribunal's state of comfortable satisfaction was reached by unreasonable, illogical and irrational reasoning, this is their words, in the absence of any objective or otherwise reliable evidence in support of the charge, and the Saints went after St Kilda.
The Frankston pair last night, Darby Hitwell and Bailey Lambert, they said they'd colluded, that their testimony was unreliable. And then they said, if the verdict is to be upheld, then the original suspension of nine weeks with two suspended was manifestly excessive compared to others and that it would kill Lance Collard's career.
Chapter 4: What are the implications of Rory Lobb's injury for the Dogs?
The appeals board took less than 20 minutes. When they came out, they found Collard, well, they re-found Collard guilty, but they cut his suspension to four weeks to suspend it. So it's essentially a two-week suspension on top of his striking charge. They called the nine-week ban crippling. This is the appeals board.
And they said Collard's age, Indigenous heritage, difficult background meant that he could not cop a nine-week suspension. And it then added... mystifyingly, I might add, that because Hipwell was not offended by the remark, that was also a factor in his decision to downgrade the ban and pointed to the fact that Collard had been quote-unquote roughed up beforehand.
The transcript also reads in part, we observe, wait for this, we observe that football is a hard game. It is highly competitive, particularly at its higher levels. It is commonplace that players can employ language from time to time, which is racist, sexist, or homophobic whilst on the field. Jeez. And then somewhat amazingly, the Saints then gave the tribunal a whack on the way out the door.
Their statement read, despite the reduction in sanction, St Kilda remains disappointed with how the matter was assessed and believes greater consistency and clarity in the AFL's tribunal process is important moving forward.
Well, the last point's spot on. There does need to be greater consistency. And now we're even, ridiculous, we all know that. It's laughable, really. But now we're even more confused. What happens next time?
Do they have to appeal this to AFL?
No, they're not. They're not. They've released a statement saying.
So what happens next time someone uses homophobic language?
Well, your guess is as good as mine. How could I honestly sit here and give you an answer on that?
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Chapter 5: How did the AFL Tribunal handle recent cases?
No, I think the Hawks will win it. I think the Suns win it.
You think the Suns? That would be history making. I know they haven't won there.
Zero to eight.
Do you want to have a little something, something? Well, absolutely. The more you put on, the more you get back. Not a tattoo. Not a tattoo sort of situation. The more you bet, the more you get. Is that what you're saying?
That sounds like what you were saying. Level five.
That sounded a lot like what you were saying.
What are you thinking?
I don't know what I'm thinking.
It's hard to gamble with you because you don't drink a bottle of wine.
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