Good news for me - Hawthorn superstar Lance Franklin. Picture: Wayne Ludbey Source: Herald Sun
HAWTHORN star Lance Franklin is the big winner from guidelines that wipe off his tribunal loading.
The AFL yesterday released tribunal changes that force players to serve NAB Cup suspensions in the home-and-away season and which crack down on stomping.
It is harder to get a 25 per cent discount for a good record at the tribunal - players must be cleanskins at AFL level for six years rather than five full seasons.
But Franklin, Carlton's Chris Judd and Geelong pair Steve Johnson and Joel Selwood are key beneficiaries of the changes to bad records, which have ramifications on a player's match review panel fate.
Previous regulations saw every match of suspension in the past three seasons add a 10 per cent loading, capped at 50 per cent.
Players now receive bad records only if suspended for more than two matches in the past two years. If a player has a total three matches of suspension they have a 10 per cent loading and four matches 20 per cent. A 50 per cent loading is handed down after seven matches of suspension.
Franklin spent most of this season with a 40 per cent record, a victim of continued one-match bans rather than a single four-week ban.
Under the old guidelines he would still have had a 30 per cent loading.
But now he has no applicable bad record given the 2010 offences drop off his record and he received only a one-week ban for his Maverick Weller bump.
Chris Judd (previously at 40 per cent) is down to 20 per cent, Selwood (40 per cent) is down to 20 per cent, and Johnson (40 per cent) has no applicable poor record.
The stomping crackdown sees those offences increased in line with kicking an opponent, after players including Western Bulldog Will Minson escaped with reprimands for stomping.
Geelong's Josh Hunt escaped with a fine for stepping on Carlton's Eddie Betts.
The duty to serve all NAB Cup suspensions in the home-and-away season will no doubt cause consternation during the pre-season competition.
It closes the loophole that allowed Richmond's Reece Conca to play in Round 1 despite a three-week ban for a bump on North Melbourne's Leigh Adams in the first week of the NAB Cup.
Players suspended in the NAB Cup can continue to play in the pre-season competition before serving their home-and-away bans.
The AFL's statistics showed 89 per cent of players accepted match review panel verdicts.
However, critically, eight players overturned verdicts in the 25 tribunal hearings.
That is a welcome statistic given the tribunal has gained a reputation as a virtual rubber stamp of the match review panel.
HOW THE NEW TRIBUNAL SYSTEM WORKS
WHY LANCE FRANKLIN WINS
UNDER previous AFL rules, Franklin would have had a 30 per cent match review panel loading next season given three separate one-match bans in the past three years.
Now he has only one applicable suspension - a one-match ban from 2011. Given the loading only kicks in at three matches suspended in total in the previous two years, he is a tribunal cleanskin.
WHY CHRIS JUDD WINS
HE had a 50 per cent loading until September this year given his four-week chicken-wing tackle on Leigh Adams and the 2009 "pressure point" eye-gouge on Michael Rischitelli.
The Rischitelli charge dropped off after the first final, reducing his loading to 40 per cent. Now under the new rules the four total weeks of suspension sees him with only a 20 per cent loading.
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