Carlton faces a nervous anticipate the Match Review Officer’s findings after an incident involving star defender Jacob Weitering and Greater Western Sydney ahead Toby Greene.
Greene was pinged for a harmful deal with on Mitch McGovern within the second quarter of Sunday’s sport, earlier than Weitering’s left hand appeared to run throughout the left eye of Greene as he remonstrated with the Giants captain.
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While Greene left the sector with blood on the alternative facet of his face, Weitering’s conduct might represent unreasonable or pointless contact to the attention area, which is a reportable offence.
Speaking on the controversy after his facet’s 32-point win that assured a spot within the finals, Greene mentioned he thought Weitering might have some explaining to do.
“I don’t know – he might in trouble. I think I got in trouble for that,” he informed Fox Footy.
“So see how he goes.
“I was hoping for a free kick – yeah that’s fine.”
Greene sparked controversy again in 2019 when he was cited in successive weeks showing to make contact to the face of an opponent.
He copped a $7500 for the primary motion in opposition to Bulldog Marcus Bontempelli and was then handed a one-week ban for an act in opposition to Lion Lachie Neale – which price him a spot within the 2019 preliminary ultimate.
Brisbane Lions veteran Dayne Zorko was charged with making contact to the attention area of Luke Pedlar earlier this season, with the incident graded intentional conduct with low affect and excessive contact, which equates to a one-match ban.
The Lions tried to overturn the ban on the AFL Tribunal, however failed.
“The vision captures Zorko first move his right hand to the face of Luke Pedlar,” Tribunal chairperson Renee Enbom mentioned of Zorko’s case.
“It captures his finger, bent and in a scratching-type position. It also captures the bent finger of Zorko above Pedlar’s eye socket, but then the finger moves down and in our view into the vicinity of the eye socket.
“We are satisfied that contact was made to the eye region. Contact was not to the eye itself, which in our view explains why Pedlar did not react to the incident.
“It also provides an explanation for the medical report.
“It’s not surprising he didn’t recall the incident given contact was not to the eye itself. We uphold the charge.”
If hit with a one-match sanction, Weitering would miss the Blues’ elimination ultimate – the membership’s first ultimate in 10 years.
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Source: www.dailytelegraph.com.au
