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Written by Shane Richmond
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 | It is Holy week so it's certainly the time for miracles and, no Vatican commission in the world would doubt that Fremantle having some luck at the tribunal must be the act of a higher power. So you can put away the Rosary beads now, because Matthew Pavlich has been cleared of any wrong doing for slapping Wakelin in the snoz. |  But, like David Hicks, Pavlich soon learned that sometimes the price of freedom is injustice. The tribunal weren't just going to let the Dockers walk away without taking one of them down. Ryan Crowley had been stitched up by the local newspapers for a reasonably fair bump on Daniel Motlop. They tried their best to make something of it but Chris Judd had made higher contact to Barry Hall and that was a can of worms they didn't want to open. In the end they slapped some trumped up charges on him and forced him to plead guilty by offering him a reprimand.
Things seemed to be going well for Fremantle until the tribunal read out the name Steven Dodd. In Fremantle, if you haven't had an incident replayed on the nightly news at seven different angles using high definition NASA quality zoom technology, you usually haven't had contact with another human being for the week prior, so Dodd coming under scrutiny was a surprise to all. As they continued, the news got worse. He was up for a misconduct charge - the AFL equivalent of the Salem Witch trials. As they continued, things started to sound better though. Dodd was being charged with stepping on Damon White's foot. If you can get off for punching someone in the ‘bar snacks’, there's no way you could be suspended for stepping on someone's foot. But things took a grim turn. Not only has they found Dodd guilty of foot stepping on, they threw a week at him. The decision comes as good news for netballers who will now be able to argue 'it's not football' when they're dragged up before their tribunal on a soft charge.
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