Carlton and North Melbourne will wage battles at the AFL Tribunal on Tuesday night ahead of a Good Friday clash in Round 4.
Kangaroos defender Griffin Logue and Blues winger Blake Acres will contest one-match bans for rough conduct, with both incidents graded careless conduct with medium impact and high contact.
Logue was charged by the MRO for his collision with Hawthorn midfielder Will Day during the Hawks’ gritty win in Launceston – follow the AFL Tribunal in the live blog below from 4pm AEST!
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Logue and Day were both running towards a loose ball during the third quarter before it bounced into Logue’s leg. However the North Melbourne defender braced, lifted one leg up and appeared to make contact with Day’s neck/shoulder region.
“It’s a really, really delicate one,” North Melbourne coach Alastair Clarkson said on Tuesday.
“The reason why we’re challenging it is because this is in-play.
“You’ve got split seconds to make these decisions. We don’t necessarily classify this as a bump as much as it is just two bodies that are coming together.”
Acres’ contact with Giant Brent Daniels in the fourth quarter of Carlton’s win received the same gradings as Logue’s incident: Careless conduct, high contact and medium impact, equating to a one-match ban.
The MRO in Round 1 elevated the ‘impact’ grading of two incidents — Kysaiah Pickett’s bump on Bailey Smith and Shane McAdam’s bump on Jacob Wehr — as they had the potential to cause injury, despite neither Smith nor Wehr being ruled out of their respective matches due to concussion post-bump.
Pickett was handed a two-week ban by the MRO — which wasn’t challenged by the Demons — while McAdam was sent straight to the tribunal, where he was handed a three-match suspension.
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