Whatever verdict the tribunal arrives at on Collingwood’s Brayden Maynard, it will become a yardstick for an acceptable level of risk of injury in footy.
all over again. Barassi knows, enough pixels and printer’s ink have been expended on them already. The footy community’s verdict is split between unavoidable accident, avoidable accident and not in the least accidental.
The line has shifted far from, say, 30 or 40 years ago when naked thuggery was celebrated, but it is still loosely drawn. Codifying forms and degree of collision have expedited the judicial process, but otherwise has not helped to define the line with any greater clarity. That’s because no two collisions are exactly alike. Footy’s 360 degrees aspect makes this so; collisions happen on every imaginable plane.
Brayshaw was hurt in the opening minutes of Thursday’s qualifying final. In the dying minutes of the same game, Melbourne’s Bayley Fritsch could have run through Collingwood’s Isaac Quaynor as he took a match-saving mark, but did not – and on Saturday morning wasDuty of care is not and cannot be a guarantee of safe passage. It has not reduced the incidence of concussion, the most frightening of footy injuries and the only one that poses an existential threat to the game as we know it.
But this is one interpretation only. The tribunal will interrogate this and all others, and it may not matter anyway.
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