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'Furious' Crows set to fight tribunal's McAdam ban - CtrlF.XYZ

'Furious' Crows set to fight tribunal's McAdam ban

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The Adelaide Crows look acceptable to entreaty the AFL tribunal's determination to uphold a three-match prohibition handed to guardant Shane McAdam for his brutal deed connected GWS's Jacob Wehr.

McAdam's bump connected Wehr was 1 of 3 thrust into the spotlight successful circular one, on with Swans seasoned Lance Franklin's connected the Gold Coast's Sam Collins, and Demons firebrand Kysaiah Pickett's connected Bailey Smith.

The Swans had earlier accepted Franklin's 1 lucifer ban, arsenic did the Dees for Pickett's two-game ban. McAdam was sent consecutive to the tribunal.

Franklin's bump Collins was classified arsenic precocious interaction and careless contact, but lone a mean interaction which resulted successful the smaller penalty.

Pickett was deed with a careless conduct, precocious interaction and precocious interaction charge.

The Crows utilized some Franklin's and Pickett's bumps arsenic examples, but interestingly, the assemblage dismissed the Pickett example, deeming it to beryllium a much "glancing impact" - quality Pickett besides launching himself into Smith.

They besides produced Patrick Dangerfield's bump connected Jake Kelly successful 2021 and Paddy Ryder's connected Hawthorn's Will Day aboriginal past play arsenic further evidence.

The tribunal recovered adjacent though Wehr someway escaped injury, the imaginable for superior wounded was high.

Traditionally, the AFL tribunal did not classify hits peculiarly severely - arsenic brutal arsenic they whitethorn different beryllium - if the subordinate connected the receiving extremity was not injured.

McAdam's advocator Tom Duggan said fixed that, the Crows were "surprised" astir the classification.

"The world is that successful this case...there was nary wounded astatine all," Duggan said.

"It is surely a worldly information that determination was nary wounded erstwhile considering whether the interaction was severe."

Crows prima banned for disfigured hit

Tribunal president Jeff Gleeson said the deed amounted to "rough behaviour nether the wide definition".

"It was careless. McAdam chose to bump astatine tenable speed. Was it precocious contact? We find that it was.

"Was it astatine slightest debased existent interaction to the head? We find that it was. The interaction was greater than that. It was not negligible.

"Here the imaginable for wounded and superior wounded was precise high. We respect it arsenic terrible impact."

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