I’m no Harvard Business School Alumnus, nor a scholar of law at Yale… but… if I can see that a few blokes sitting in a room, brainstorming and writing down stuff on butchers’ paper to come up with ways to classify a violent act in a sport distil the two headings down to i) Intentional and ii) Careless will lead to confusion and disagreement, shirley one of the plethora of suits working at, for or in conjunction with the AFL must be able to.
This is so not the way to define something to distinguish it as one or thing or another.
Yes, Cotchin was careless, but if that was not also intentional then we’ve discovered a new sub-dialect of English spoken in certain meeting rooms in Melbourne on Mondays and Tuesdays.
Maybe the dictionary was on Gillan’s shelf and his office was locked while he was away in the land of cheap plastic crap stuff that breaks too easily. Whatever, why do we have a system that is so rigid it makes it so hard to get stuff right.? Oh yeah - because we want transparency and consistency and this has the best intentions of the game and disciplined player behaviour at heart.
