Pendlebury calls for AFL to bring in a sin bin

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Former Collingwood skipper Scott Pendlebury would similar to spot the AFL proceedings a misdeed bin successful an effort to stamp retired vicious head-high hits.

With concerns astir the semipermanent effects of concussion groing stronger and a people enactment against the AFL underway, Pendlebury says players should beryllium forced to temporarily permission the tract if they prosecute successful convulsive oregon unsafe behaviour, successful an effort to weed retired foul play.

In the AFL's reappraisal of the opening round, Melbourne's Kysaiah Pickett was deed with a two-match ban and Sydney's Lance Franklin a one-match prohibition for unsmooth conduct.

Crows subordinate Shane McAdam volition larn his destiny for his nasty deed connected Giants youngster Jacob Wehr erstwhile lucifer reappraisal serviceman Michael Christian hands down his determination connected Monday night.

'Exactly what we're trying to stamp out'

Discussing Pickett's precocious bump connected Bulldogs midfielder Bailey Smith connected Triple M's Marty Sheargold Show, Pendlebury cited the NRL's misdeed bin arsenic an illustration of a beardown deterrent with hefty ramifications.

"Watching the NRL, erstwhile that worldly happens, they get sin-binned and I don't caput that for our game," helium said.

"Say, if Pickett was to get sin-binned, it's a implicit disadvantage. Now you play 17 v 18 for 10-15 minutes."

Under the league's existent MRO and tribunal processes, reportable offences and their corresponding sanctions are graded connected the volition of the conduct, its interaction and wherever it occurred connected the body.

Pendlebury says this needs to alteration to value much heavy against players who intentionally perpetrate a superior offence.

Pickett successful blistery h2o implicit unsafe hit

"I deliberation for years there's been a question astir 'are we going to punish the result oregon the action?'," helium said.

"I don't hold with that. I deliberation it should beryllium the enactment that gets punished. They are not shot actions.

"I deliberation it's thing we request to get escaped of from our crippled but this chat has been going connected for five, six years.

"We're getting determination but there's inactive country to improve."

Pendlebury's comments person added to disapproval from shot pundits, including North Melbourne large David King.

"The enactment to spell past the footy and execute a bump to the caput is simply a starting constituent of 2 weeks. If you sound a subordinate out, it's elevated from there. I conscionable can't judge however we're inactive saying that's a one-week suspension, I can't person that," helium told SEN's Whateley of Franklin's suspension.

AFL facing concussion people enactment lawsuit

"(Pickett and McAdam's actions) were rugby league-type hits. They are acceptable and thrust and drill," helium continued.

"They've got nary thought what the result of those hits are going to beryllium astatine the commencement of their move… their determination astatine the commencement of that determination is to nail the absorption subordinate successful the head.

"So however the hellhole are we astatine 2 weeks? If we're saying, 'We're going to bash everything we tin to support the head…' we've gone obscurity with this and I americium sick of talking astir it."

The AFL is facing a people enactment by erstwhile AFL and AFLW players over the impacts of concussion and the menace of processing chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) due to the fact that of negligence.

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