‘It is breaking me’: Brayshaw brother launches attack on AFL judiciary

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Hamish Brayshaw has mounted an impassioned attack on what he sees as the incomprehensible way so-called head protection in the AFL is being administered.

Hamish Brayshaw, brother of forcibly retired Melbourne footballer Angus, has launched a swingeing attack on the AFL’s judicial system, accusing it of being inconsistent, selective and an existential threat to the game.

Barely drawing breath, Brayshaw detailed confusion and contradiction about football and non-football acts, about intent and about the extent to which outcome does or does not weigh on decisions. Angus Brayshaw was knocked out by a flying smother from Collingwood’s Brayden Maynard in last year’s qualifying final

About Angus, he is poignant. “My brother is never going to play football again in his whole life because of a jumping smother that turned into a bump that collided with his head,” Brayshaw said. “As much as it killed me to watch that, I can put my feeling for Angus aside and say that down to the nuts of and bolts of it, Maynard was trying to smother the ball in a qualifying final, so technically it was a football act.

 

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