‘It is breaking me’: Brayshaw brother launches attack on AFL judiciary

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Hamish Brayshaw, member of forcibly retired Melbourne footballer Angus, has launched a swingeing onslaught connected the AFL’s judicial system, accusing it of being inconsistent, selective and an existential menace to the game.

“The tribunal and the lucifer reappraisal sheet are single-handedly destroying the game,” Brayshaw said. “You are making it intolerable to play successful bully spirit, you are making it intolerable to adjudicate, and you’re not acold disconnected making it intolerable to support.”

Hamish Brayshaw arsenic a West Coast subordinate successful 2020.

Brayshaw played 1 crippled for West Coast successful 2020 and is present co-captain of East Perth successful the WAFL. He was making his thoughts known successful an unfastened missive to the AFL delivered connected Backchat, a Youtube podcast helium hosts with erstwhile West Coast subordinate Will Schofield and writer Dan Const.

Barely drafting breath, Brayshaw elaborate disorder and contradiction astir shot and non-football acts, astir intent and astir the grade to which result does oregon does not measurement connected decisions.

“But it depends connected the authorities of the crippled and the clip of the year, it depends connected whether oregon not we request to marque an illustration retired of someone,” Brayshaw said, “but don’t hide if they person a cleanable grounds successful the past and bash foundation work, but evidently that tin lone substance erstwhile and ne'er again, due to the fact that from present connected that doesn’t count; it depends connected the subordinate and the squad they’re on.”

Angus Brayshaw was knocked retired by a flying smother from Collingwood’s Brayden Maynard successful past year’s qualifying final and has retired connected aesculapian advice. Another brother, Andrew, plays for Fremantle and their father, Mark, played for North Melbourne and aboriginal worked successful footy administration.

Brayden Maynard crashes into Angus Brayshaw.

“I person grown up each my beingness surrounded by football,” said Hamish. “Playing football, watching football, my household has been engrossed successful the AFL strategy for decades – and I person perfectly nary thought what is going connected immoderate more.”

About Angus, helium is poignant. “My member is ne'er going to play shot again successful his full beingness due to the fact that of a jumping smother that turned into a bump that collided with his head,” Brayshaw said. “As overmuch arsenic it killed maine to ticker that, I tin enactment my feeling for Angus speech and accidental that down to the nuts of and bolts of it, Maynard was trying to smother the shot successful a qualifying final, truthful technically it was a shot act.

Peter Wright crashes into Sydney’s Harry Cunningham.

“You surely didn’t attraction astatine each for the result there, and Brayden went connected to triumph a premiership. You went with protecting the sanctity of the crippled implicit the extortion of the player. I’m not agreeing oregon disagreeing with that, but it is breaking maine that you are perpetually backflipping connected that stance.”

Brayshaw was puzzled that Essendon’s Peter Wright and GWS’ Toby Greene copped 4 matches and 1 lucifer respectively for akin acts, and Port Adelaide’s Jeremy Finlayson, for a homophobic slur, got little than Wright.

He was bemused that GWS’ Jesse Hogan was not suspended past week contempt admitting swinging with unit astatine Carlton’s Lewis Young because, the tribunal ruled, the stroke was negligible. “He swung a fist astatine a bloke’s look and due to the fact that it didn’t hurt, you haven’t fixed him a week,” Brayshaw said. “Punish the action, not the result – unless the result is they’re OK.

“Ask my small member Andrew if an intentional plaything to the look has the imaginable to origin harm. Incredible.”

In 2018, Andrew Brayshaw’s jaw was breached by a punch thrown by West Coast’s Andrew Gaff. Gaff was suspended for 8 matches.

Brayshaw was perplexed that Adelaide’s Matt Crouch got a lucifer for “picking the shot up the mode each azygous kid is taught to do” and that Brisbane Lion Charlie Cameron was reprieved “for being a bully guy”, but West Coast’s Tom Barrass wasn’t. “The get retired of jailhouse escaped paper lone appears erstwhile successful the deck, apparently,” helium said.

Andrew Brayshaw aft being punched by Andrew Gaff.

Brayshaw returned to his taxable of mystifying inconsistency. “I can’t physically ticker the Melbourne Demons play shot immoderate much due to the fact that my brother’s encephalon is going to beryllium f---ed for the remainder of his life,” helium said, “and you didn’t deliberation that was capable for a week off.”

Brayshaw said the AFL’s protocols for subordinate extortion and crippled integrity were broken.

“Before they tin beryllium fixed, you request to really recognize the criteria you privation to govern the game,” helium said. “It needs to beryllium understandable for the nationalist and it needs to beryllium followed. You can’t prime and take erstwhile to disregard definite things and erstwhile to alteration your views connected others.

“It has to change. Otherwise, this crippled is going to crook into thing unrecognisable, and it’s going to hap precise quickly.”

The AFL has been contacted for comment.

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