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AFL 2022: Patrick Cripps fails to overturn two-game ban, Carlton Blues, video, Callum Ah Chee

AFL 2022: Patrick Cripps fails to overturn two-game ban, Carlton Blues, video, Callum Ah Chee

Patrick Cripps’ home and away season is over after the Blues star failed to have his two-game ban overturned at the AFL Tribunal.

Cripps’ legal team argued his bump on Brisbane Lions player Callum Ah Chee was nothing more than a “football act”, but the AFL wasn’t having it.

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The Blues used Willie Rioli’s hit on Matt Rowell from earlier in the season as the example as to why the star shouldn’t be sanctioned.

Rioli left the ground and bumped into Rowell.

“My eyes are purely fixed on the ball,” Cripps said.

“I’m trying to turn and protect the drop zone of the ball, I’ve got my arms outstretched. The ball is there to be won.

“No way I can answer that ball without a collision being there

“In the heat of battle when the ball’s there to be won, I’m going to try and take possession of the ball.”

AFL counsel Nicholas Pane however argued that Cripps elected to bump and because of that decision, he was responsible for the outcome.

Cripps’ lawyer pleaded with the jury to let the star Blue off as it was simply just two players contesting the footy.

“This was a very even contest with milliseconds in it,” Cripps’ lawyer Peter O’Farrell said.

“The consequences of impact do not determine the reasonableness of an action.

“Concussion is a serious issue in sport, but it’s not to be explained away by blaming players all the time.

“On occasion there will be injury. Players can and do get hurt.”

A long kick down the line from Adam Cerra was punched high into the air by Brisbane’s Daniel Rich and Lions teammate Callum Ah Chee camped himself underneath it.

As the ball came down, Cripps came in at a hundred miles an hour and launched off the deck and flattened Ah Chee with a nasty hip and shoulder.

The impact of the hit left Ah Chee flat on the Gabba surface as several Lions teammates remonstrated with Cripps.

Medical staff rushed to Ah Chee’s side and he remained hunched over on his hands and knees before he was able to get back to his feet and under his own power make his way off the ground.

Ah Chee was subbed out of the game. Cripps was sixth favorite for the 2022 Brownlow Medal on TAB markets heading into the game.

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Johnny Depp suffers from erectile dysfunction, court documents claim

Johnny Depp suffers from erectile dysfunction, court documents claim

Johnny Depp suffers from erectile dysfunction, attorneys for Amber Heard claimed in newly unsealed court documents.

The actress’ legal team argued in a March 28 filing, obtained by Page Sixthat the purported medical malady may have contributed to her ex-husband’s allegedly violent behaviour.

“Though Mr. Depp would rather not disclose his erectile dysfunction condition, such condition absolutely is relevant to sexual violence, including Mr. Depp’s anger and use of a bottle to rape Amber Heard,” the documents alleged.

Depp has consistently denied Heard’s allegations of rape and violence.

Heard’s lawyers went on to claim that Depp’s supposed penile problem would make it “more probable” that he would become “angry or agitated” in encounters with the Aquaman star and cause him to “resort to a bottle.”

In May, Heard, 36, broke down in tears during the former couple’s defamation trial as she testified that the Pirates of the Caribbean star, 59, allegedly raped her with a liquor bottle and threatened to “carve up” her face with it during a March 2015 altercation.

“I didn’t know if the bottle he had inside me was broken,” she said, breathing heavily as she held back tears. “I couldn’t feel it. I couldn’t feel anything.”

According to the court documents, the alleged incident occurred in Australia during the same fight that left Depp with a severed finger — something he claimed on the stand happened when Heard flung a vodka bottle at him. The two had only gotten married a month earlier.

During a cross-examination, Depp’s lawyer grilled Heard about the alleged sexual assault, for which the Justice League star admitted she did not seek medical attention.

“As I have always said, I don’t remember exactly what happened first, or the sequence,” she said.

The unsealed documents also revealed text message exchanges between Depp and Marilyn Manson — who similarly has been accused of and denied sexual abuse — as well as the Edward Scissorhands star’s attempt to bring up his ex-wife’s “brief stint as an exotic dancer” at trial.

The jury ultimately awarded Depp $15 million ($A21.35 million) over claims he was defamed by a 2018 Washington Post op-ed in which Heard made allegations of sexual violence. She was awarded $2 million ($A2.85 million) over her claims that Depp’s lawyer had made false and damaging comments about her.

Depp’s team did not immediately respond to Page Six‘s request for comment on the erectile dysfunction allegation.

This article originally appeared in the New York Post and was reproduced with permission.

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