Hypen, it pains me to say this, but you’re not wrong. You're just right too early. Like Gerard Neesham.
When you think about the AFL and concussions, it helps to think of the old MLK quote about the arc of the moral universe being long, but bending toward justice.
Until the AFL comes out and says ‘it doesn’t matter what you do, if you hit a bloke in the head and he gets concussed, you’re getting suspend’, which I don’t think it will ever do, then every new case of a concussion is a test case. There are few each year, and in the aggregate the arc is slowly trending the right way. The arc just isn’t bending as fast as what you’d like, and arguably what it needs to.
But the AFL needs to bring its fans along for the journey, and I personally didn’t think what Maynard did was outside the parameters of what the AFL had set in 2023. In some amount of time, maybe next season, or a few seasons after that, those parameters will be different and the next bloke who does what Maynard did will get suspended.
And that bloke will probably be a Freo player, and Raglan Matt will be insufferable, and I’ll have to tell him he wasn’t wrong, and then delete my Dockerland account.
