Collingwood star Nick Daicos could possibly be in scorching water over a tough deal with on GWS’ Brent Daniels halfway via the ultimate time period of final evening’s thrilling preliminary closing win.
Daniels had regarded to have largely wriggled away from Collingwood’s Scott Pendlebury when Daicos come into the competition from behind, with Pendlebury nonetheless holding Daniels’ arm behind him.
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Together with his arms pinned, Daniels’ head hit the bottom, and he was despatched for a head harm evaluation, itself the centre of some controversy.
Seven’s Tom Browne stated he anticipated the deal with to be checked out by the Match Evaluate Officer, however that he thought Daicos would escape penalty.
“The opposite factor that’s going to be assessed totally is Nick Daicos’s deal with,” Browne stated.
“I believe Scott Pendlebury exacerbated that movement, so I don’t assume Nick will likely be in bother, nevertheless it actually will likely be a speaking level.
“Collingwood followers will likely be sweating on that barely given there’s was a bump of the pinnacle. Pendlebury was concerned within the sequence. Pendlebury had one of many arms pinned. I don’t assume it’s Nick Daicos’s unique downside.”
Daniels handed his head harm evaluation, however didn’t return to the sport.
The Giants will search clarification from the AFL over the incident, believing that there was no want for Daniels to endure the evaluation.
An impartial AFL physician oversees the choice to take away gamers for head influence assessments.
GWS coach Adam Kingsley stated he was dissatisfied to lose Daniels within the dying minutes of the sport given his operating potential.
“(I used to be) actually dissatisfied to lose Brent Daniels for a HIA evaluation that he handed comfortably within the final 5 minutes of the sport, which damage us across the ball with a little bit of leg velocity, a little bit of overlap run, in order that’s extraordinarily disappointing,” he stated.
“I haven’t seen the incident, however from what I’m led to imagine, it didn’t warrant having to take him off the sphere to evaluate it.
“Yeah, I’m certain we are going to (contact the AFL for clarification).”
Daniels had 19 disposals with 14 kicks and 6 rating involvements earlier than he was faraway from the sport.
It wasn’t the one second of controversy for Daicos, with an obvious excessive deal with on Toby Greene sending social media right into a frenzy for the shortage of free kick – Greene would have had a free kick from round 50m out with an opportunity to convey the sport again to degree pegging.
The potential lack of Daicos for the Grand Ultimate could be enormous for Collingwood, who had been boosted within the preliminary closing on his return, having discovered to dwell with out the younger star after a six-week lay-off from a knee harm.
For Daicos to overlook a match, it must be discovered that the sling deal with and its influence was both careless conduct of medium influence, or intentional conduct.
Any potential suspension nevertheless, wouldn’t influence Daicos’ possibilities of successful a Brownlow, because the rule that states suspended gamers are ineligible to win the award is proscribed to suspensions incurred in the course of the home-and-away season.
Daicos stays one of many scorching favourites to win the distinguished award.
If he pulls it off on September 25, he would be the youngest winner since Gavin Wanganeen in 1993, and the least skilled since Tony Liberatore in 1990.
