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On this weeks Show I look at:

• NAB Cup semi-Finalists
• The AFLPA and AFLs sign up for Free Agency to start in 2010
• 8/25% year rule
• Delisted are Free Agency at any date
• Jeff Kennett’s comments
• Individual agreements

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On this weeks Show I look at:

• Results From First week of the NAB Cup – Winners: Eagles, Power, Hawks, Dogs
• Look at the new rules
• 5m protection zone and why I like it
• Holding the ball rule. Why I like it too
• How staging rule could be used with NAB Cup trail holding the ball rule
• How they could add to the Holding the call rule with Holding the man rule addition
• Other rule changes
• Brief mention of the Andrew Lovett incidient (note: recorded before he was sacked. Will discuss more on next weeks show).

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On this weeks Show I look at:

• NAB Cup Round 2 results
• Ugly footy/rolling Zones/Flooding/etc/etc/etc
• Cousins, concussion, amnesia and the media
• Plugs for stuff (too be updated later)

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On this weeks Show I look at:

• NBA Cup results
• Nick Maxwell’s successful appeal
• Clinton Young and Motlops bumps
• Mike Sheahan’s silly comment!

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It is further believe that the AFL council in the appeal stuffed up in saying that there were some situations that you are better not to bump in. I personally agree with this, but don’t think he should have said it and especially if it wasn’t said in a way that said if the player couldn’t bump safely, they shouldn’t bump. A better way of saying it would have been to say if you bump, you have to wear the consequences of that action.

UPDATE

Here is the Appeal boards finding:

Please find detailed below the summary of the findings of the AFL Appeals Board in the case involving Nick Maxwell, that was heard in Melbourne on Friday, February 20.

1. The contact made by Maxwell was reasonable and permitted under the laws of the game and the guidelines, and was therefore not negligent contact.

2. The head contact was accidentally caused by reason of that contact. The tribunal jury were not required to answer all of the questions that they ought to have in arriving at their decision and, in particular, whether Maxwell’s shepherd was reasonable in the circumstances.

The Appeals Board was then called upon to make the factual findings that were referred to in points one and two.

Peter O’Callaghan, AFL Appeals Board chairman

I am a little surprised. I thought this would clear things up but it is more mystifying to me. Is the points made in point 2 saying that because the tribunal weren’t required to rule on all the questions that they ought to, the appeals panel had to rule on it and in there opinion, the contact was reasonable under the law (point 1)? I think this will open up to more dangerous hits and more appeal hearings as teams will have players reported, suspended and think that they are like the Maxwell case. If I am right about the Appeals board thinking that they needed to decide because of the error at the tribunal, if the tribunal fixes that and they come to the same conclusion they did this time, the appeals board won’t have the right to over turn it as they did this one.

I guess next interesting thing will be what the AFL says and then, how the players handle this and what happens for the next incident.

What do you think? Was justice done? Is the bump now okay?

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On this weeks Show I look at:

* Results of Week 2 of Round 1 of the NAB Cup
* Nick Maxwell reported for Rough Contact for bumping Patrick McGinnity to the head
* MRP Give him 4 weeks, 3 with an early plea
* Magpies took to tribunal and lost
* Bump is now dead, allegedly
* I explain the Rough Contact law
* Media hysterical over incident. Patrick Smith and KB some of the worst!
* My rant on the whole topic

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On this weeks Show I look at:

* Dedicated to the people effected by the bushfires.
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* Game moved from Darwin to the Dome in aid of the Bush Fire Appeal
* Pies beat Eagles in first game of the NAB Cup
* Swift and Lockyer of Dream Team interest
* All-stars beat Crows
* Setanta O’hAilpin V Cameron Cloke and his penalty
* Teams for Essendon Vs Bulldogs
* New Rules – Did they work

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On today’s Show I look at:

• New format for the Show
• Cousins to the Tigers
• NAB Cup rules including Rushed Behind and the Clarkson Rule
• Teams for West Coast vs Collingwood and Adelaide vs Indigenous All-Stars
• Tadhg Kennelly quits the Swans

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On this weeks Show I look at:

• NAB Cup Results and Grand Finalists 
• Should teams try in the NAB Cup
• What about Paul Roos alledgede silly statement
• Hawks tactics
• Other sites and shoutouts for me!

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On this weeks Show I look at:

• NAB Cup Winners: Crows, Hawks, Blues, Dockers, Bombers, Saints, Bulldogs, Cats
• Interchange changes in the NAB Cup
• AFL looking at 18 team comp: New team in West Sydney and Gold Coast
• Wayne Carey

NAB Cup Draw for week 2:

Friday February 22, 2008
Western Bulldogs v Essendon at Telstra Dome, 7.40pm (Channel Seven)

Saturday February 23, 2008
St Kilda v Geelong at Manuka Oval, 3.40pm (Fox Sports)

Hawthorn v Carlton at Telstra Dome, 7.10pm (Channel Ten)

Sunday February 24, 2008
Adelaide v winner of West Coast / Fremantle at AAMI Stadium, 4.40pm (Fox Sports)

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On this weeks Show I look at:

• Clinton Grybas Death
• NAB Cup Rule changes
• Few other things
• How the drafts and Free Agency could work in my opinion

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