Is Violence in our game acceptable?
April 17th 2008 13:08
It has been the main talking point in households across Australia for the whole week – Barry Hall’s punch or “mind freeze” on Brent Staker last Saturday night. Debate raged all week on what should Hall’s punishment be. As an Eagles fan, I have am slightly biased on the matter but after talking to other people who didn’t support the Eagles I realised that my anger was almost as great as theirs. Hall deserved to go for at least eight to ten weeks and the tribunals punishment of seven weeks could be classed as soft. With the punishment being made all that more softer, considering hall could miss up to six weeks with a broken wrist. His suspension should at least start when he is fit and ready to play and no time before. Especially if you consider what his punishment would be if he punched someone like that if he was just someone in society, instead of seven weeks rest from his job he would have been charged with something much more serious such as assault. Which poses the question, should incidents that take place on the sporting field be classified as a criminal offence or should we put it down to white line fever and accept that incidents of violence may occur in our beloved game?
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