GWS will attraction the AFL tribunal’s choice to uphold Toby Bedford’s one-match suspension in a bid to free the small ahead for his or her elimination remaining in opposition to St Kilda.
Bedford didn’t have his one-match tough conduct ban, for an off-the-ball bump on Carlton’s Zac Fisher in spherical 24, overturned or downgraded on Monday afternoon.
The attraction is ready to be heard by the AFL appeals board on Thursday afternoon, two days earlier than the MCG remaining.
The contact was graded as careless, medium affect and excessive contact, drawing a one-match ban, after Fisher required a concussion evaluation at three-quarter time, which he handed.
GWS, counting on proof from Fisher and a biomechanist, argued the bump was not excessive or forceful and shouldn’t be thought-about medium affect.
Both of these arguments have been rejected by the panel of Jeff Gleeson, Darren Gaspar and Scott Stevens.
“It’s disappointing. We thought we had a pretty compelling case,” Bedford’s teammate Harry Himmelberg stated on Tuesday.
“We were of the view that it was a footballing act; he was blocking, it wasn’t off the ball.”
Bedford has performed 16 video games in his first season at GWS after he was traded from Melbourne, kicking 10 targets and averaging 5 tackles per sport.
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
