Brian Lake. How many weeks?

Dr.Rock · Joined: 29 Jan 2005

Up there with the chicken wing by Judd in my opinion. Attempting to choke Petrie last night and amazingly doing no serious damage.
An act of selfishness,cowardnesss, how many weeks will he get?
I'd say 4.

Piesnchess · piesnchess Joined: 09 Jun 2008

Give the grumpy old jerk 10 weeks at least, he could have choked him badly, causing a trip to hospital.

warburton lad · Joined: 26 Aug 2003

Terrible, terrible look for the game.

Should be 6 weeks down to 5.

Hawks player= 3 weeks down to 2.

Shame, Lake, Shame.

RudeBoy · Joined: 28 Nov 2005

He'll get 3 weeks.

AN_Inkling · Joined: 06 Oct 2007

Just a fine according to Tom and Leigh.

But I reckon he deserves to be suspended. This is a worse act than a bump that accidentally goes wrong. Sure, no harm done, but it's something that should not happen on a footy field. At least a week or two off.

think positive · Side By Side Joined: 30 Jun 2005 Location: somewhere

Can't possibly be just a fine, you'd lose kids in droves, Petrie was on the point if passing out, deserves 6 down to 4

Mugwump · Joined: 28 Jul 2007 Location: Between London and Melbourne

It was a little hard to see exactly what was done, and why - Petrie appeared to grope for Lake's face, and it was not clear from the video whether Lake was choking him at that point. Lake may be able to argue that it was a reaction to gouging, and provocation like that would matter in sentencing. Assuming Petrie's face-poking was a response to being throttled, rather than the cause of it, i'd say 4-5 weeks, because Petrie was unimpaired. Had (short-term, non-lasting) damage been done, i think we'd be looking at 8-10 weeks.

Jezza · 2023 PREMIERS! Joined: 06 Sep 2010 Location: Ponsford End

Last night Channel 7 did an interactive poll during the game asking viewers of how many weeks Brian Lake should get suspended for his incident with Drew Petrie. Two-thirds said he should get at least 3+ weeks suspension.

Wokko · Come and take it. Joined: 04 Oct 2005

A choke does surprisingly little damage, unless he's crushing the windpipe rather than just cutting off the blood supply. A blood choke will have you passed out very quickly (5-10 seconds) and once bloodflow returns, you come to, and nothing is wrong. The hoo-ha about it is pretty funny, I've been choked out in martial arts training and it's really not bad at all.

Hard to tell exactly how he's doing it from what I've seen.

David · I dare you to try Joined: 27 Jul 2003 Location: Andromeda

Surprised to see his teammate come out and publicly condemn him, particularly before a report has even been laid. Pretty unusual.

http://m.afl.com.au/news/2014-07-05/not-acceptable

swoop42 · Posted: Sun Jul 06, 2014 12:15 am

think positive · Side By Side Joined: 30 Jun 2005 Location: somewhere

5150 · Joined: 31 Aug 2005

Donny · Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2014 8:38 pm

Petrie charged, as well.

Wokko · Come and take it. Joined: 04 Oct 2005

Congratulations to those who totally misrepresented what I was saying. My point is all the "oh my god he might have died" crap from Doc Larkins through to the average forum poster is over the top nonsense. Of course he shouldn't do it, and of course he should get weeks but lets not make it out as an attempted murder.