Drubbing, I do agree with you that Sandi had the intention of blocking, but... we have seen this kind of rubbish so often it defies belief. Is blocking and shepherding the same as bumping in a hip and shoulder, and does it matter?
For there not to even be a mention of the cowardly act by Grigg of coming in fifth to roundhouse a bloke with his arms pinged, but a 239 game veteran with a completely untarnished record gets shafted, it doesn't sit well.
I can't imagine the former Richmond player appointed to the MRP was too rigorous in his applying the letter of the law to cite Grigg (it did not even rate a mention to even be dismissed), but I reckon he was happy to make a quick call to club medicos "very honest and reliable medicos" no doubt, and "good blokes" too.
What Grigg did is the kind of average cowardly crap that Phil Read attempted on Adrian Fletcher, and we know the result of that.
Yes, I know the head is sacrosanct, lord knows Fremantle fans are well aware of that, but does the precedent always have to be one of our gun players? I mean, let's face it, Grigg is crap. If he never played again folk wouldn't even notice.