AFL you're an absolute joke..COUSINS ONE WEEK ????

[joffa_the_man_in_gold]

Ben cousins strikes with elbow away from the ball and gets one week, cloke cops 2 weeks whilst attempting to spoil and misses last years granny which cost us a premiership.

you can see why fans are fed up and confused...its pathetic and its wrong cousins should have at least got 4 weeks, i guess its good to see the AFL still confusing everyone, how can they justify clokes 2 weeks when the assault from ben cousins only gets one week ???

[TRELOS]

Joffa i know what you mean...but cos he plays for Collingwood he has the AFL apply the SPECIAL rules for Collingwood

[London Dave]

gee joffa, I thought you had some money on him for the Brownlow!

[London Dave]

I'm sure the WA media was having a big cry when Matera (I think) elbowed one of our blokes last year and got away with it!

[MagpieMad]

joffa m8, I couldn't agree with you more, its a joke, no one has any confidence in the system, some time last year, I think it was the afl players ass. did a poll of the players and about 75% of them said they had no confidence in it. afl says it'll stay the same.
funny but if you had this sort of tribunal in a ordinary work place it wouldn't last past its 1st case.

[CP]

One week for Cousins seems pretty tame...just ask Tarrant who reportedly did a similar thing and got 2, despite there being no video or verbal evidence.

Gotta disagree on the Cloke suspension though, Joffa. Edwards was dangerous, game could've gone either way, Cloke knew what he was doing. Job done.

In all honesty, I was suprised he only got 2.

[THE POSSUM PIES]

Totally agree Joffa, just like those white maggots, that word will start to emerge again

INCONSISTENCY

[Fradam]

I'd hate to be the only negative here but I am. I thought Cousins was very unlucky. Hardwick clearly took a dive and admitted it. I do recall a similar thing happening to Buckley last year where he got reported for striking Thompson of St Kilda and hearing Thompson tell the umpire it was Bulls***

All this acting that goes on in football has to be stopped. Akermanis is the number one offender.

[McGough27]

I actually though Cousins was a bit stiff . Hardwick admitted he took a dive and admitted if Cousins had have made contact , he would have remonstrated . However , if Cousins did make contact with Hardwick , then i think he should have got 4 weeks , 2 weeks for striking and 2 weeks for not completely knocking him out . If Cousins had have managed to knock him out then he should have received 2 weeks credit for any other indiscretion he incurs for the remainder of his career .

[Ed from WA]

they are going berserk over here.
Didnt one of our blokes go last year even thoughthe opposition player said he didnt get hit?
they took the word of the ump,out went our bloke and the WA wankers were happier than a pig in a pile of poodumpings.
bout time collingwood got rubbed out they all cried.
now its one of theirs in the same situation they are all going sooky lala.

[MissMagpie_20]

Didnt surprise me. Just another example of the SHOCKING inconsistency of the tribunal. Its ludicrous!

[Blanch]

hey ed, eagles supporters are the least football intelligent people I've ever met. this crying they doing are doing cracks me up. Do yourself a favour and give 'em a bit of hell. I think cousins may have been a bit stiff but don't ever miss the opportunity to rub it in to these chardonnay sipping, picnic basket carrying bandwagoners!

another quote for you ed, "our boy woosha is back in charge. the premiership will be ours"....wish i had a dollar for every clown who said that to me.

[joffa_the_man_in_gold]

[joffa_the_man_in_gold]

[Brown26]

Yeah, I thought Hardwick took a dive, but there was not much doubt contact was made, just not enough to cause taht much damage / throw hardwick backwards like that. He definitly should've gone, probably two weeks would've been better than one.

HArwick will never get a report against his player now - when the umps have been made to look stupid like this. (again.)

- Ben