Carlton star Patrick Cripps overturns suspension after marathon appeal

"In the absence of even Mr Cripps being asked if he wanted to bump his opponent … the chairperson later postures, 'Can you bump and contest at the same time?'" Townshend said."A fair examination of the whole of the evidence could not support clear satisfaction that the player was doing something other than an incident where both players had eyes for the ball, and both players contested the ball, as found by the Tribunal.

AFL counsel Nicholas Pane said a player could contest with his eyes on the ball but still be in the action of bumping. It means Cripps is free to play in crunch games against Melbourne and Collingwood in the final two rounds.

Cripps should be out of at least 2. terrible decision to let him off, AFL should overrule. brownlow is best and fairest. what cripps did was not fair. just crude. victim not playing this week, but perpetrator is. disgusting AFL lost me even more

Can’t wait for Carlton to appeal when Cripps never wins a Brownlow. One of the most over rated.

Pathetic.

MRO is a clown house. This is how they choose their ruling, Pickett should sue them.

Patrick didn't overturn anything, the expensive legal team did. Sloppy reporting ABC.

Pathetic !! As if you care about head injuries, keep it up and the numbers for kids joining soccer will increase. World Cup this year and not to mention the great athletics at the Comm games

AFL is hopeless. Kemp gets lost driving home, the same things happen to Platten and Diesel. Frawley had CTE yet time and again when given the opportunity to change the paradigm, the AFL squibs it. They won’t change until they are paying millions in damages

A disgrace.

Patrick Cripps is not Toby Greene..ffs

All in the interest of Brownlow, no integrity left in AFL

Still a very strong Brownlow chance 👊🏻👊🏻cripps

Is this for real? Joke… seriously. Can’t believe it. 🤬

The AFL do not care at all about head injuries. If they did Cotchin wouldn’t have payed in a grand final and Cripps would be out. What a pity

footy is bloke getting off on block

AFL are a joke of an organisation

Boy oh boy wowee!!!111

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