{"id":11177,"date":"2025-07-21T15:47:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T15:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/11177\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T15:47:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T15:47:13","slug":"darcy-moore-knee-on-josh-treacy-gets-no-fine-nick-dal-santo-and-garry-lyon-surprised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/11177\/","title":{"rendered":"Darcy Moore knee on Josh Treacy gets no fine, Nick Dal Santo and Garry Lyon surprised"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former AFL stars have been left surprised by the Match Review Officer\u2019s decision to not sanction Collingwood captain Darcy Moore for, what triple All-Australian Nick Dal Santo has dubbed, a non-football act.<\/p>\n

In the dying seconds of the Magpies\u2019 thrilling one-point loss to Fremantle<\/a> on Sunday, Moore fell into the back of Josh Treacy after the latter had taken a mark in the Dockers\u2019 defensive goalsquare.<\/p>\n

The umpire paid a 50m penalty against Moore \u2013 who copped the ire of some Fremantle players \u2013 as the Dockers held on for a tight victory.<\/p>\n

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But Moore on Monday avoided any sanction, with his contact on Treacy not mentioned in the MRO\u2019s report. Herald Sun reporter Jon Ralph explained why that was the case on Fox Footy\u2019s On The Couch.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe MRO certainly looked at it,\u201d Ralph told On The Couch. \u201cThey classified that it was a 50m penalty, which was a sufficient penalty.<\/p>\n

\u201cFreo didn\u2019t report any injuries, so he\u2019s got a clean bill of health \u2013 though he (Treacy) wasn\u2019t thrilled at that stage (immediately after the incident).<\/p>\n

\u201cThe MRO judged that Treacy dived forward, Moore dived after him, it wasn\u2019t sufficiently \u2018careless\u2019 for a fine.\u201d<\/p>\n

Triple premiership Tiger Jack Riewoldt said Moore\u2019s act was worthy of a ban.<\/p>\n

\u201cI reckon he\u2019s lucky. I reckon that\u2019s a suspension,\u201d Riewoldt told Fox Footy\u2019s On The Couch.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat is a knee into the kidneys of a player \u2013 a vulnerable player who\u2019s on the ground. Surely that\u2019s late, isn\u2019t it?\u201d<\/p>\n

Seven-time All-Australian Nathan Buckley added: \u201cI think he\u2019s lucky. I thought it was sloppy \u2026 I think it could\u2019ve got a week.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can understand why it wasn\u2019t cited, but I think he (Moore) would be wiping the brow.\u201d<\/p>\n

But speaking on Fox Sports News\u2019 AFL Tonight, Dal Santo suggested Moore should\u2019ve been financially penalised.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that\u2019s worthy of a fine. It was worthy of a 50m penalty at a minimum,\u201d Dal Santo told Fox Sports News\u2019 AFL Tonight.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou look at those acts \u2026 it\u2019s not a football act. There\u2019s other accidents that happen in the game, but that\u2019s not one of them. <\/p>\n

\u201cBut nothing more than a fine.\u201d<\/p>\n

Australian Football Hall of Fame member Garry Lyon said he was surprised Moore avoided a sanction.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is not a good look for the Collingwood captain, I\u2019m sorry,\u201d Lyon told Fox Footy\u2019s AFL 360.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m surprised he wasn\u2019t given a fine, to be perfectly honest, dropping double knees into the back of (Treacy). There was no reason to drop his knees into the back of as player when he\u2019s in that situation. <\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think Darcy would be too proud of that when he looks back at that. It would\u2019ve only been a fine, I\u2019m not suggesting a suspension.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former AFL stars have been left surprised by the Match Review Officer\u2019s decision to not sanction Collingwood captain…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11178,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,3423,10989,13151,13150,653,10145,681,10991,13152,85,13153,13155,13154],"class_list":["post-11177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-ben-waterworth","tag-darcy-moore","tag-defensive-goalsquare","tag-dropping-double-knees","tag-fox-sports-news","tag-garry-lyon","tag-jon-ralph","tag-josh-treacy","tag-nick-dal-santo","tag-sports","tag-sufficient-penalty","tag-thrilling-one-point-loss","tag-triple-premiership"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}