Source : ABC NEWS
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Former AFL umpire ‘Razor’ Ray Chamberlain brings an interesting perspective to the footy these days on ABC Sport’s game broadcasts.
He was asked to comment on yesterday’s Gold Coast – Collingwood game, where the Suns’ Ben Long hit Magpie Brayden Maynard with a cheap shot, sparking not one but two melees and has Maynard and others facing possible charges of making contact with an umpire.
Here is the original incident, plus what happened after the siren.
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Chamberlain has spoken about the incident on air.
“I didn’t like what Ben did to Brayden Maynard. I understand why Brayden Maynard was absolutely seething.
“And I think that needs to get a heap of attention.
“That act from behind, open, vulnerable. Smashes him in the ribs. I can totally understand why Brayden Maynard is seething.
“The problem Brayden is going to have, apart from the fact that he does make contact with the umpire who is in bright green, is in front of him for 25m, is that he’s had a minute and a half, two minutes to have a think about what’s going on and recalibrate.
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“The siren then sounds, and he has no care for anything else other than his own want and need.
“He runs 30m to go after Ben Long and go and makes contact with an umpire in the process.
“He’s going to have a lot of trouble explaining why that’s okay.”
To be fair, from the looks of that last video, Gold Coast’s Touk Miller may have a case to answer as well for making contact with an umpire. But the bottom line everyone is waiting carefully for the match review panel’s report to land, so we can find out what happens from here.
