Quote Originally Posted by liz View Post
I understand where people are coming from, but acts like Bugg's are very very uncommon in the game
This is an important point. I'm not keen on knee-jerk reactions to rare events. There was some headline recently along the lines of "is footy out of control". Based on what, two unfortunate incidents out of hundreds of games played nationwide in a year. There's a really long suspension maybe once every year or two, because most players know the consequences.

It would be easy to slip into a rant about how we live in a world shaped by disproportionate media reaction to rare events so I won't