Jordan de Goey has a date with the AFL Tribunal on Tuesday after the Collingwood star was directed straight by means of by Match Review Officer Michael Christian.
The Pies star left his ft and elected to bump West Coast’s Elijah Hewett, accumulating him within the head and ruling him out for the complete recreation with concussion.
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Pundits shortly started to invest simply how lengthy the hit would see De Goey spend on the sidelines.
The hit was graded as careless, extreme affect and excessive contact. Rulings which lead to a beneficial sanction of a minimum of three matches.
Eagles participant Dom Sheed was scathing in his evaluation of the hit, calling for the star to be rubbed out for a minimum of a month.
“I actually didn’t see it (at the time). I kept looking at the big screen and kept missing it. But I heard it was pretty bad. The boys probably didn’t respond the way we should’ve when that happened,” Sheed instructed 6PR Football.
“But watching it back now, I think he deserves a good month or two on the sidelines.”
But it was on Sunday evening after the incident was referred on to the Tribunal that caught footy followers consideration.
A put up on Instagram by the West Coast Eagles, which was deleted shortly after, noticed them add a photograph of the hit with the caption: “straight to the tribunal”.
Former Collingwood coach Nathan Buckley took situation with the Eagles put up and likewise hit again at Sheed’s response, saying it didn’t require remonstration because it was a “football act”.
“What are West Coast tweeting about Jordy De Goey (going to the Tribunal)? It’s none of their business,” Buckley mentioned on SEN.
“And Dom Sheed saying: ‘I’ve now seen the vision and maybe we should’ve stood up for him.’ None of the players stood up because it wasn’t seen as anything outside of a football act.
“Otherwise his teammates would’ve got over and remonstrated.”
Buckley clashed reside on air in a frosty debate with former Port Adelaide star Kane Cornes after Cornes labelled the hit a “weak act”.
“(De Goey) definitely deserves to be up at Tribunal and he’ll get the weeks that he deserves. For mine it’s a three, but I think the reaction post this incident has been over the top,” Buckley mentioned.
“I thought it was a football action, it was an instinctive football action. It’s one not accepted in the game now. There was no raised elbows or real jumping off the ground.
“You (Cornes) made a comment about you thought it was ‘weak.’ Yeah, nah, I don’t agree with you at all.”
Cornes additionally mentioned earlier on Sunday that De Goey was throwing away one other season as he spotlight his off-field points by stating he: “Really struggles to go a full season without having a mishap.”
It was these remarks that didn’t sit properly with Buckley.
“There was stuff you tried to wrap in about his off-field misdemeanours … you’re judging that every player needs to have a certain level of professionalism and understanding of what it takes to be an AFL footballer,” Buckley added.
“You compared him to (Marcus) Bontempelli. If you compare him to some players who have the same class of talent … that’s only one part of performance.
“There’s different upbringings, there’s different ways of seeing the world and different motivations that come to play to pull the final package together.
“But all of that is separate to what happened on the field with Jordy De Goey. That was a knee jerk, instant and blink of an eye outcome. I don’t reckon five metres before that he was thinking he was going to iron the kid out. I’m thinking he was thinking he was going to go in and tackle him.”
Cornes mentioned the previous coach was “being extremely lenient,” saying De Goey had different choices than bumping Hewett.
“This guy (De Goey) is a skilful player who can turn on a dime, pick the ball up and snap it over his shoulder and we go: ‘How good’s that?’” Cornes mentioned on SEN.
“In the moment, he’s got options – he can tackle and he can corral. (It was) A defenceless player who’s gotten rid of the ball and he jumps off the ground and smashes his shoulder into his head.”
Buckley added: “He’s not a defenceless player, he’s a footballer on an AFL field,” to which Cornes replied: “He’s an 18-year old kid who got rid of the footy and wasn’t expecting to be bumped in the head in that moment.”
Buckley continued: “You reckon Jordy had time to calculate he’s an 18-year old kid? You’re on a football field, you should be expecting contact.
“You tried to wrap up the fact that Jordy shouldn’t have had that contest against that opposition because their lowly ranked.
“It’s not going to be part of the calculation. As a coach, I want my players to go out and play on edge all the time. A guy like Jordy De Goey, who’s a physical beast and does play on the edge and with aggression.
“The way you played and what you think is weak, would be different to what he thinks was weak.”
De Goey’s Tribunal case will probably be heard on Tuesday evening ranging from 4pm (AEST).
Source: www.news.com.au
