West Coast wunderkind Harley Reid has didn’t halve his two-game harmful sort out suspension on the AFL tribunal.
Final yr’s No.1 draft choose, Reid was cited for slinging St Kilda’s Darcy Wilson to the bottom within the Eagles’ 14-point loss at Optus Stadium on Saturday.
Wilson’s head hit the turf because of the forceful sort out however he was cleared of concussion and returned to the sphere.
The league’s match overview officer charged Reid with tough conduct and graded the incident as careless contact, excessive influence and excessive contact, drawing a two-match ban.
West Coast argued the sort out needs to be deemed medium influence, in a bid to downgrade the suspension to at least one recreation.
Reid, 19, will miss Saturday’s recreation towards North Melbourne, then the round-15 recreation towards Essendon after the bye, whereas he’s ineligible for the AFL’s Rising Star award attributable to his suspension.
He didn’t give proof on Tuesday evening, with counsel David Grace KC talking as Reid watched on through video convention.
AFL counsel Sally Flynn asserted Reid’s rough-conduct cost was a transparent instance of an inherently harmful sort out, mentioning the potential to trigger a concussion or neck damage.
The tribunal, together with chair Renee Enbom KC and panel members Darren Gaspar and Paul Williams, deliberated for 53 minutes and believed there was “appreciable” potential for damage from the “poorly executed” sort out.
The AFL’s assertion the character of the sort out — to raise, rotate and sling Wilson backwards onto the bottom — had the potential to trigger a critical head or neck damage was accepted, sustaining Wilson was “fortunate” he landed the way in which he did.
St Kilda’s medical report mentioned Wilson didn’t require any therapy after the incident.
West Coast cited 4 examples of earlier tackles in Reid’s defence.
Will Day’s sort out on Brad Shut, the place the Hawk pinned the Cats’ arms and slammed his head into the bottom, was proven for example of excessive influence.
Jaeger O’Meara’s sort out on Charlie Spargo, Charlie Cameron’s slinging of Jake Lever and Tom Barrass’s sort out on Michael Walters, have been all used as examples of medium influence.
Flynn efficiently countered all of the examples, bar Day, have been much less harmful than Reid’s slinging sort out, which gave Wilson no alternative to brace for contact.
Earlier on Tuesday evening, Western Bulldogs ahead Rhylee West had his rough-conduct cost, and per week’s suspension, thrown out.
West efficiently argued he had not meant to bump Collingwood’s Jeremy Howe, however braced for contact and caught Howe as he went to sort out Maynard.
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