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that view doesn't paint a preety picture for south. they should just accept the 1 game ban and be done with it.

Look at this logically...
South disagreed/were unhappy with the Tribunal's decision, they need to appeal the decision, yet there is no process for appealing the decision in the SANFL! There next step was to seek an injunction. This was the only process they could follow, as the SANFL has no avenue for appeal- & this needs to be fixed.

Punk Rooster wrote:Look at this logically...
South disagreed/were unhappy with the Tribunal's decision, they need to appeal the decision, yet there is no process for appealing the decision in the SANFL! There next step was to seek an injunction. This was the only process they could follow, as the SANFL has no avenue for appeal- & this needs to be fixed.

If they don't fix it they could find themselves on the end of a very nasty and embarassing law suit in the next year or 2.
Denial of natural justice is a travesty.

On a different tangent it wouldn't suprise me to see a restraint of trade law suit slapped on them too for the salary cap laws.
Why the SANFL bothers to bet CEOs and GMs together to discuss the law and then go off and do something completely different is beyond me.

The CEOS and GMs walk away wondering why the SANFL bothered to call them there for the meeting in the first place.

Wedgie wrote:Denial of natural justice is a travesty.

Nobody would argue that there needs to be an appeals procedure in place for serious crimes such as murder - the truth needs to be found regardless. This is one end of the spectrum.

At the other end of the spectrum is situations like free kicks that umpires pay in football. In this case it would be ludicrous to have any sort of "appeal" system - players must simply accept the decision of the umpire, even when the umpires make the most obvious mistakes.

Somewhere in between these two extremes lies the case of a football tribunal. How important is it here that the real truth is found and justice prevails? I tend to lean towards the view that football is only a game and that players/clubs should simply accept the tribunal decision regardless. Obviously many people believe that there should be a way to appeal tribunal decisions, but my view is that this is a waste of time and money. There comes a point when you just have to accept that things won't always go your way, and move on.

Pfft, football's much more important than serious crimes.

They time to appeal is when you present your case. If you can't get it together then, forget it. Maybe if the tribunal accepted appeals, it could go the way of the "Bali 9" also with the tribunal increasing the penalty.