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CibbuanoWilliams slams Burgoyne decision
May 21st 2008 06:37
PORT ADELAIDE coach Mark Williams has slammed the three-match ban handed to star midfielder Shaun Burgoyne and has called for an enquiry into the tribunal's decision.
Williams said he supported the AFL's protection of players with their head over the ball, but believed the decision destroyed the fabric of the game.
"There has to be a few questions of how a coach and how a team and how a club plays contested football if that particular incident gets three weeks suspension for a player like Shaun," Williams said.
"When you are a metre away from a person that is approaching the ball, you have your eye on the ball and the other person is running in the same direction, it's unrealistic to think you are not going to make a collision."
"And I have never seen anyone intentionally bump anyone with the middle of their back into someone's head."
Williams said he supported the AFL's protection of players with their head over the ball, but believed the decision destroyed the fabric of the game.
"There has to be a few questions of how a coach and how a team and how a club plays contested football if that particular incident gets three weeks suspension for a player like Shaun," Williams said.
"When you are a metre away from a person that is approaching the ball, you have your eye on the ball and the other person is running in the same direction, it's unrealistic to think you are not going to make a collision."
"And I have never seen anyone intentionally bump anyone with the middle of their back into someone's head."
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