Does AFL have sin bin or send off for foul play?

Question

My point of this question is not to find out whether AFL is a mans game but if there is no sin bin why not then send out a no hoper to take out a super star for the opposion in a big game. What got me thinking was watching a game this morning a player ****** his elbow and got his opponet fair on the jaw and I think he was out for the game. There was nothing "tough" or "hard" about that, it was a low, weak act.

Answer 1

NO AFL is a mans game unlike Netball and Rugby

Answer 2

Na but u can get reported and the tribunal decides your punishment

Answer 3

No - unfortunately not.

An offending player is reported, and reports are being processed the coming week. Only then is it decided whether he'll be reprimanded, given a slap on the wrist, or rubbed out for one or more weeks.

Answer 4

Sort of An umpire can report you and than later on in the week you go to a tribunal where you are in front of a panel who decide whether there will be a fine of whether you will miss games

Answer 5

Unfortunately A.F.L doesn't have a sin bin or sending off for foul play. The umpire can place a player on report, which means the player  will have to appear at a tribunal which is made up of a board of official members/committee of the A.F.L. If the player is found guilty, the player can be fined and banned from playing x number of games. Thus meaning the team pays no penalty during the game which foul play has been committed.

Answer 6

You are dead right about this and it has happened in big games.  Dermott Brereton comes to mind - someone took him out in a Finals game many years back.  It may have been a Grand Final but it was a long time ago.   All you need is a second rate player with brute strength to take out someone and a smaller player like Gary Ablett Jnr. would be someone to target and I think it is high time there was a sin bin where the offender is off the ground for at least 15 minutes so the offending team is one player short so that would lessen the chance of this sort of thing happening.   Even something like Barry Hall's hit on Staker of course lessened the West Coast's chance of doing better in that particular game.

But again, where something like that could really sway the game right now would be in a Grand Final where it really counts.  Like an act of assault that the Police could charge you for in the scheme of things,  well you could get away with it in the rules as they are now and if an assault could help your team win the big one well it could be worth it even if that player gets 10 weeks at the Tribunal the following year.  You make a good point.

Answer 7

Don't know, but it should! Some of those turkeys should be sent to it for over acting, like that guy Hall 'allegedly' hit.

Answer 8

No they don't have such penalties.

If ever there was to be an argument to change the system then Barry Hall & Dean Solomon's low dog acts of this season are prime examples.

Answer 9

no, afl is the real game, thay dont need time out  when they are being bad girls, if they punch someone out they can keep on punching ppl out, what a gr8 game, its the best in the world

Answer 10

I thought that if a player was reported twice in one match they get taken off.

Answer 11

**No and they shouldn't have one either!!  If the players coach thinks they need to come off for what they've done then they'll get dragged, otherwise they stay out there and do their job.**

Answer 12

junior and state based senior football; yes.

AFL, no...but I cant see the harm in having one.

but only sending the player off if its for a report as well...

Answer 13

the afl dont but the country leagues have a send off rule

Answer 14

They don't send players off, but if a player commits an offence they can be suspended by the tribunal for future matches.

Answer 15

yes its called Yahoo answers

and a customer service fool by the name of jackson likes to send violations and suspensions out to you

Answer 16

no but they can be reported and dealt with by a tribunal and suspended and fined.and afl isnt a mans game anymore as someone suggested,all contact sports have been watered down no matter what code.footy isnt the same anymore they might be better sportsman because they have more technical advantages than in the old days but at the end of the day there poofs.

Answer 17

AAAAHHHHH.......... NO!

Answer 18

I take it as a fair question.  There's no send off in AFL but some club comps have it.  I think I know the cheap shot you're talking about.  Some guy who was traded out of one mediocre club to an even worse one who takes out one of the Brownlow medal favourites.

Send him off, I reckon.  I'm pissed off about that one.  Send him off, send him home, and start his suspension from Round 1 next year when his team actually has something to lose.

Answer 19

Australian Rules football at the elite level (AFL) does not enforce a 'send-off' rule. However, the lower levels do. As an example, the Victorian Country Football League (which encompasses the admin of all country footy leagues) employs a rule whereby for certain indiscretions like foul language, abusing an umpire, wrestling, will result in a yellow card which is 15min send off. For more serious offences, such as striking, a red card will result and the player is off for the rest of the game. Out of interest, when a player is sent off they cannot be substituted so the team has effectively 17 players (as opposed to 18!).