Defender Griffin Logue will miss North Melbourne’s Good Friday clash with Carlton after the Kangaroos failed to overturn his suspension for rough conduct.
It means the Kangaroos will be without their two best key defenders to take on Blues twin towers Harry McKay and Charlie Curnow.
Using 18 stills of the incident, North argued Logue had performed “quintessentially a football act” and a “textbook approach” to collecting a loose ball and had not intended to bump Day.
Griffin Logue. Credit:Michael Willson, Getty
Though the tribunal accepted Logue had initially intended to gain possession, it also determined he had chosen to bump.
“We are clearly satisfied that he could and should have gone lower and closer to the ball with is hands in an attempt to pick up the ball rather than choosing to bump Day,” tribunal chair Jeff Gleeson, KC, said. “We find Logue’s way of contesting the ball was not reasonable.”
More to come.
