OT. "Intentionality" refers to the ability of mental states to be about something and is an important concept in philosophy of mind. (Don't confuse it with "intension", which is a term which refers to the internal meaning of a word, similar to "sense" if you want to use the sense/referent distinction).
But we know what you mean
The whole red card debate is kinda funny to me.
What should happen, is that WC should have taken Gaff off as soon as they knew the severity of what he did.
For the good of the game, for the good of the actual game they are playing in, and to diminish potential retaliation and aggression.
The bigger issue is the time out of the game.
This really should be a chargeable offence (by law)
If this happened outside a nightclub, and was caught on CCTV, the offender would be found and charged.
I don't understand a society where this can be seen differently because it occurred during a game of football.
I'd give him 12 months.
And the AFL have a challenge, given that they seem to punish based on the result of the offence rather than the intent.
Will be interesting to see the wash up of this.
The difference between insanity and genius is measured only in success.
I fear this is the influence of Steve Johnson. I don't think Papley needs much encouragement but Ronke and Hayward seem like polite young men, not prone to get ahead of themselves. There was a recent interview with Ronke where he commented that Johnson had been instructing him to niggle opponents.
I wish the leadership group and/or other coaches would step in and provide a different message.
Buddy will sometimes - nay, often - throw his weight around a bit but at least his onfield exploits mean he's earned some right to heckle opponents when they make mistakes. The young guys certainly haven't. And while Buddy gets into some push and shove from time to time, he generally does it when his target is at least looking at him. The shoulder slam from behind that Papley is particularly keen on (and Hayward seems to be getting more fond of) is particularly unnecessary.
AFLHQ must have trembled when this possibility was raised. Just the thought of lawyers getting access to the field of play is mind blowing. How many lawsuits will the AFL have to deal with for a whole range of issues? And what would the players think about facing possible felony charges every time they took the field? And maybe the players could be subjected to slander suits for sledging. It's a slippery slope.
I don't think the game can function if incidents on the field were subject to the laws of the land. But there is merit in your suggestion that there should be some legal threshold, like if a murder were committed on the field, then that would certainly come under Australian Law.
I agree. This thing of rubbing it in when an opposition player makes a mistake or loses a one-on-one contest is really annoying. It's mostly younger players doing it. You don't tend to see a quality senior player like a Kennedy or a Dangerfield doing it, but sometimes I wish they would tell some of the younger guys to pull their heads in. I get that it's very common, and the lowest common denominator rules a lot of the time, but maybe players could concentrate on the game and trying
to do things well rather than sledging an opposition player when he makes a mistake. I mean it's not as if most of our guys are ever more than ten or fifteen minutes away from making a mistake or losing a contest themselves.
A red card would make no difference to gaff. As it is, he is likely to miss finals, a much worse outcome than being sent off in a h&a game. So even that disincentive didn't stop him.
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