Brad Scott has conceded Essendon wouldn’t have been capable of overturn Mason Redman’s one-match suspension for hanging on the AFL tribunal.
Redman was charged with hanging Hawthorn’s Jai Newcombe in an off-the-ball incident in the course of the Bombers’ 24-point win on Saturday.
The contact was deemed as intentional and excessive contact, with low influence.
It resulted in an automated one-match ban meaning Redman will miss Essendon’s robust project towards Sydney on the SCG in spherical two.
Bombers coach Scott felt the membership owed it to their followers to contemplate difficult the match evaluation officer’s determination in a bid to clear Redman to face the Swans.
But Scott, who was the AFL’s basic supervisor of soccer earlier than taking the Essendon job, felt it will have been a futile train.
“The AFL have really reverse-engineered this rule and they’ve written into the guidelines that an open hand can constitute a strike, and anything high and off the ball will be graded intentional,” Scott instructed Fox Footy on Monday night time.
“You go through the guidelines and they’ve sort of made it so that we have absolutely no grounds or legal grounds for an appeal.
“We can on precept enchantment it, however we’ll lose.”
Scott noted incidents assessed by the league’s match review officer are no longer just football issues, but involve legal and medical components.
Newcombe wasn’t seriously hurt by Redman in the second-quarter incident, going on to finish with 21 disposals in a losing battle for the Hawks.
“The backside line is Mason knew he did the unsuitable factor,” Scott mentioned.
“Whether it is a free kick off the ball, 50m penalty, fantastic or suspension … he did the unsuitable factor, he is owned that, we take our medication and transfer on.”
Hawthorn’s James Sicily will face the AFL tribunal on Tuesday night to challenge his one-match suspension for kicking Essendon’s Andrew McGrath.
The Hawks will use the Bombers’ medical report in their defence, with McGrath admitting contact from Sicily barely registered.
“It was fairly innocuous … I did not even actually realise that he put his foot into the again of me, which suggests how extreme the kick was,” McGrath instructed SEN on Monday.
“But they’re stamping that out of the sport and we’ll see the place that lands.”
Gold Coast’s Malcolm Rosas Jr and Western Bulldogs recruit James Harmes are also facing one-match bans for headbutting opponents in round one.
Their respective golf equipment are but to verify whether or not they may problem the bans.
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
