Joel Selwood\u2019s comments on 3AW radio earlier<\/a>, where he said \u201csometimes I think players play dumb, it\u2019s changing before our eyes but get with it\u201d.<\/p>\nDunstall then proceeded to passionately give his thoughts for the situation at hand.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s dumb football. I\u2019m not outraged, I\u2019m genuinely disheartened by the decision though. I don\u2019t get how you can sit there and say, \u2018you needed to adjust your approach just before the contact\u2019, without saying the same thing to Frankie Evans and saying \u2018you needed to do exactly the same thing\u2019,\u201d he began.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was only the last bounce of the ball that allowed Evans to get there before May. If it had\u2019ve gone forward instead of sitting up and coming back, then May gets to the ball first. How can you say to one of them you have to temper your approach, but not the other when it\u2019s a 50-50 ball? Why aren\u2019t both of them pulling up if you\u2019re telling one of them to pull up?<\/p>\n
Mitchell on ’embracing the villain role’ | 09:37<\/p>\n
North Melbourne champion David King interjected: \u201cBecause one hits the head.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dunstall replied: \u201cNo you\u2019re missing the point Kingy. I\u2019m talking about trying to change.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou just said you weren\u2019t outraged,\u201d King added.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo, no. Change the action. What do you want us to do in that situation? And they\u2019re going Steven May, you\u2019ve got to be different the way you approach. Well why doesn\u2019t the other bloke be a little bit different as well? Because no one knows who\u2019s getting the ball until it actually gets in his hands,\u201d Dunstall said.<\/p>\n
King agreed, but believes the game has changed in recent times.<\/p>\n
Voss “disappointed” in farewell loss | 11:30<\/p>\n
\u201cI agree with that and I think everyone agrees with that notion. But we\u2019ve conditioned players to think that the duty of care is on both parties and they come back unprotected now and we\u2019re seeing fallout like this and hits like this,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t have the answers, it\u2019s just an opinion that I think the game has now changed to the point where you\u2019ve got to assess these things. We\u2019re seeing players adjust over the last six to eight weeks, we\u2019re seeing players not pull out as such, but not put themselves in these positions.\u201d<\/p>\n
St Kilda champion Leigh Montagna gave his thoughts on the discussion as well.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m with Jason. I think there was no other alternative for him. But now from what we\u2019re hearing with the Tribunal decision, we are being told that players with a 50-50 ball need to attack it with caution,\u201d Montagna quipped.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe onus has to be on both players,\u201d Dunstall interrupted.<\/p>\n
Curnow: ‘I am not leaving this club!’ | 03:05<\/p>\n
\u201cBoth players have to attack with caution because if they go unconditional like we\u2019ve played the game for a hundred years, you\u2019re going to get suspended if you get it wrong. There is a significant change if this ruling stands, that players need to approach a 50-50 ball with caution,\u201d Montagna said.<\/p>\n
King asked: \u201cDo you concede the game has changed though? <\/p>\n
Dunstall replied: \u201cAbsolutely and for the better. We\u2019re protecting the head and I get that. <\/p>\n
King pressed: \u201cDo you like the change and where we\u2019re going?<\/p>\n
\u201cI like looking after the players, yes. But there are still going to be some collisions in this game that you cannot say, \u2018that\u2019s your fault\u2019. It is nobody\u2019s fault\u2026 or both of their fault,\u201d Dunstall finished.<\/p>\n
May\u2019s AFL Appeals Board hearing will occur at some stage next week given he has already been ruled out of Melbourne\u2019s clash with St Kilda on Sunday due to concussion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AFL great Jason Dunstall has launched into a staunch defence of Melbourne\u2019s Steven May after his three-match ban…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20007,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[63,689,3239,1129,20866,1818,20863,6178,9125,7492,43,12149,20865,681,3465,3257,44,677,20000,20862,12936,1122,20864,8018,11287,41,39,42,40,660],"class_list":["post-20006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-carlton-blues","tag-charlie-curnow","tag-compelling-case","tag-david-king","tag-emotional-game","tag-football-community","tag-francis-evans","tag-hawthorn-hawks","tag-headlines","tag-jason-dunstall","tag-joel-selwood","tag-jon-ralph","tag-leigh-montagna","tag-michael-voss","tag-news","tag-oceania","tag-player-spoke","tag-polarising-case","tag-sam-mitchell","tag-st-kilda","tag-staunch-defence","tag-steven-may","tag-three-match-ban","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-victoria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}