Chris Fagan has urged the umpires to guard the person with the ball, claiming his Brisbane gamers had been punished for reducing their top to gather possession throughout their defeat of Fremantle.
The Lions dominated the Dockers on Saturday on the Gabba to rack up a fourth-straight win and enhance to 5-2.
But they’ve two harm considerations in Dayne Zorko (hamstring) and Daniel Rich (calf) forward of Friday’s conflict with Carlton in Melbourne, Zorko’s of explicit concern given he battled a hamstring tendon harm within the pre-season.
The former captain had earlier been cleared of concussion and was capable of play on after a slinging Matthew Johnson deal with despatched his shoulder and head thundering into the turf.
Johnson had already been penalised for top contact and was positioned on report for the second motion that introduced Zorko to the bottom.
But a involved Fagan believed different incidents, together with tackles on Cam Rayner and Hugh McCluggage, went unpunished as a result of the umpires thought they had been enjoying for a free kick.
“That was a pretty vigorous sort of tackle,” he stated of the Johnson deal with.
“I don’t normally comment on umpires but I don’t think they protected the head all that well.
“I used to be a bit shocked a number of excessive tackles had been referred to as play-on.”
He said players who lower their height to gain possession should be rewarded.
“The duty of the tacklers is to not get the bloke across the head,” Fagan stated.
“It appeared to me, and I is perhaps fallacious, that the umpires had been attempting to interpret whether or not or not the bloke was ducking his head and deserved to be tackled in that method.
“The bloke with the ball needs to be looked after.”
Fagan was in any other case happy with the Lions’ skill to snuff out Fremantle’s early onslaught because the out-of-form facet tried to blaze their manner by means of the hall in a handball frenzy.
Brisbane led by 31 at halftime, Lincoln McCarthy and Joe Daniher each kicking three objectives and Lachie Neale amassing 35 disposals and 13 clearances.
Their solely blemish got here in conceding 5 of the Dockers’ 10 objectives within the third quarter, however Fagan stated it was the gamers themselves who addressed that on the closing break.
“I thought we tried to be a bit too flashy at times and paid a bit of a price for that, but outside of that played the way we wanted to play,” he stated.
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
