Rocca has been given 1 week suspension

melliot · Joined: 07 Apr 2006 Location: Bendigo

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Evil or Very Mad

frankiboy · Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 3:02 pm

Surprise, surprise, question is, do the club fight it and risk making it a 2 week suspension?

Yobbo^LuKa · Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 3:04 pm

No way he will be serving it... thats bullshit

Leggie · Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 3:06 pm

Unfortunately didnt see it so cant really comment.
Can someone with no bias let me know if it deserved the 1 week.

If not I'll scream blue murder like the rest of you

burnsy17 · Joined: 10 Aug 2003

head high, but elbow was tucked in and the player hit was sort of bent over.... Dunno, but to me it looked like a hit hip and shoulder worthy of a free but nothing else....

frankiboy · Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 3:15 pm

Neil Appleby · Joined: 02 Aug 2003 Location: Hong Kong

OK Leggie,

It was a good, very solid bump.
Arm tucked in, no elbow.
Upper arm/shoulder made strong contact with the head of the Swan's player who appeared to be leaning in toward Rocca at the time of impact.

Deliberate? Of course
High? Yes
Severe impact? Yes...the player was assisted off the field.
Reckless? No

One week was about right I think. It was a great bump, but unfortunately it hit another player in the head. As they keep telling us, the head is untouchable.

I fear the club will appeal and we'll end up with 2 weeks out of this.

The positive though is that the umpire standing nearby, with a good side view, awarded a free kick and no report.
The umpire thought it was high contact (free kick) but not reportable.

Expect Collingwood to appeal and call the umpire as a witness as WC did in the Judd case.

That's about as unbiased as I can ever be!

Dave The Man · Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 3:18 pm

as MM said they might as well were dresses next week.

The Match Review Panel Must Want Hawks to win on Sunday.

AFL is turning in to Galiec Football

Seth · Joined: 15 Nov 2000 Location: In the Doghouse

Take the week, put up Ben Reid. Don't risk 2.

leon_d · Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 3:31 pm

and Milne was cleared of a head high tackle from yesterday?

Geeeesh.

RudeBoy · Joined: 28 Nov 2005

You've got to protect the head. The issue really is whether the Swan's player was falling forward at the time, so that it was his own action which led to the high contact. Could Rocca have effectively shepherded Didak without collecting the bloke's noggin? It's a 50/50 I reckon.

jonesy86 · Joined: 02 Aug 2005 Location: Reservoir

Dave The Man · Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 3:42 pm

Cloke needs to have a Blinder and Kick straight and True

Gazza05 · Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 3:42 pm

As stated before there was no malice just a good hip and shoulder unfortunatley got him high. The way they are ruling now the head has to be protected so I think we have to cop the week.

Adz · Joined: 18 May 2003 Location: St Kilda East

Accept the week!