Okay, I've been mulling over this for about a week now so let's see what others think. For those that don't know I play AFL (best. sport. ever.). And as w/ most contact sports things get a bit rough at times. Last weekend, one of my team mates, got cleaned up. The guy in the opposition team ran through his back and then threw his elbow into my mate's throat area and passed onto his jaw as he lost his footing. My mate went down and was out cold for 15 mins. The fat oversized brute who was about 6 foot 2, just laughed at it and called my mate a softc**k right in front of the ump. It was a sick, callous blow and the umpire said he didn't see anything - even though the hit was in the play and a man was down b/c of it. It's not really surprising anyway. The umpires were provided by the opposition (the home team) anyway (which is what usually happens).

The last quarter came around, and I chose my moment. No one did that to my mates. Any one of my team mates. After laying a shepard against the big oaf, I turned around in one fluid motion and swatted him one. He dropped like a fly. I told that was for the second quarter (where the 1st incident had happened) and re-entered the play w/out too much notice.

When the umpires realised what had happened, they weren't able to do anything. (He got up about 2 to 3 minute later and went off the ground to return about 10 minutes later.)The umpires never knew who did it but they said to our team after the game that stuff wasn't on. I was pretty pissed. It was a double standard. One of our boys gets put down, that's okay. Nothing major and they tell us to quit whining. One of their's gets done, they cry foul and have a sook. We're a much smaller team than them. Hell, I was at least a head shorter than the prick I smacked out.

Anyways, the coach didn't single me out but he knew what happened. Hell, most of the boys knew what happened. Most of the boys know why I did it and they appreciate what happened. It means we look after our own. However, me, I'm not so sure.

I do feel kind of bad. What I basically did was an eye for an eye. Is that right? So what would you have done? Did I make the right call?