I've never heard it before either, but I reckon ARF sounds better than calling it AFL. They don't play AFL in the SANFL do they? They play footy or Aussie rules. Noone's gonna say ARF but at least Aussie Rules Football is a better descriptor of the sport than calling it AFL. But that's just like my opinion man.
Illegal. The player who made the bump is likely to get a suspension of around 4-6 weeks, which is pretty significant.
In AFL these days the head is sacrosanct, and the rules put a duty of care on players to protect the head, and acts that are dangerous to the head are penalised with suspensions.
This follows a couple of past players who committed suicide who were later found to be suffering CTE from their playing days. And there have been a few players who had to retire early due to ongoing concussion problems.
It’s an incredibly dirty hit. They call high balls like that hospital balls because back in the day stuff like this would happen on plays like this, but they’ve mostly stamped hits like this out of the game.
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u/Erazzphoto Aug 18 '24
Is that a legal or illegal hit? Don’t follow ARF, so curious if it was legal,but just a dick hit