‘Felt quite sick’: Tackle leave teammate struggling

Per week after West Coast’s Dom Sheed was criticised for calling out Collingwood’s Jordan DeGoey for a bump which earned him a 3 match suspension, Zorko mentioned Sicily “got it wrong” in tackling McCluggage.

Sicily is staring a doable three match ban after being referred on to the AFL Tribunal for the harmful sort out.

McCluggage was instantly subbed out of Brisbane’s loss and Zorko, who didn’t play within the recreation on account of his personal suspension, mentioned the sort out and the aftermath was exhausting to look at.

“Looking at the incident, it wasn’t great. I felt quite sick actually when I saw Hugh on the ground motionless,” he mentioned on Monday.

“It was pretty hard to watch, I can’t imagine what his family and that were feeling like.

“That’s a tackle the AFL are trying to stamp out of the game. Every player is aware of that. You put players in vulnerable positions, they hit their head … clearly that’s an action that the AFL doesn’t like.

“Hugh is clearly going to be out with concussion this week and he said he had a bit of a sore neck as well, so that’s obviously not great signs.”

While Sheed mentioned DeGoey ought to have gotten “one or two months”, Zorko was much less inclined to say what Sicily’s penalty must be.

Zorko mentioned gamers have been struggling to regulate to the brand new crackdown on harmful tackles.

“Heading to the AFL Tribunal, it’ll be interesting to see what happens with that,” he advised SEN Queensland.

“It’s hard as players when you’ve trained something your whole life and then in a split second they want us to change.

“There’s a little bit of a teething period and players are going to get it wrong and unfortunately for James he got it wrong on this occasion.”

Sicily will face the AFL tribunal on Tuesday evening.

Originally printed as Brisbane’s Dayne Zorko calls out Hawthorn skipper James Sicily