Patrick Smith (The Australian) has had a go at the Johnson V Bell and Baker V Farmer incidents from the weekend.
A couple of points of interest:
- “If it had been Buckley (instead of Farmer that Baker had Felled) then teams of journalists would have formed lines across Telstra Dome in a precise forensic search for clues.”
- Malthouse said last year (after Caracella was forced to retire from injuries from a front-on-bump) that any bump to the head should draw a minimum penalty of a six-week suspension.
- “After an initial flurry of concern over these sorts of bumps which saw Byron Pickett suspended for six matches at the start of the 2005 season and Mathew Stokes from Geelong and Michael Johnson from Fremantle suspended for four matches this pre-season, these bumps have been tolerated. The penalty applied to Johnson yesterday is timely.”
Nice work Patrick. Just what I said.
