Join now and get your first month for just $1.<\/a><\/p>\nLaverty passed a concussion test and suffered no other serious injuries, therefore he didn\u2019t miss any games. <\/p>\n
Wangaratta considered appealing the sentence, but had no right to under competition rules. Only the charged player or his club are able to appeal. <\/p>\n
\u201cAs a club we are aggrieved about the process that there is no avenue for appeal by the club or the governing bodies being the Ovens and Murray League and AFL Victoria,\u201d Wangaratta Football and Netball Club president Jon Henry said in a statement to foxfooty.com.au.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis gives us no ability to support our player and family members who are distraught with this incident which is unacceptable by community standards.\u201d<\/p>\n
Albury\u2019s Michael Duncan last week received a four-match by an independent tribunal chairman after pleading guilty to striking Wangaratta\u2019s Xavier Laverty, 19.Source: FOX SPORTS<\/p>\n
Duncan was placed on report by the field umpire for the strike around eight minutes into the fourth quarter after tempers flared on the day. <\/p>\n
The act carried a grading of intentional, contact head high and impact high.<\/p>\n
As it was Albury\u2019s last game of the season, Duncan will miss the first four games of the 2026 campaign.<\/p>\n
Laverty kicked four goals in Wangaratta\u2019s elimination final win over North Albury last weekend to see the Magpies advance to the second week of the finals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A top country football club is \u201caggrieved\u201d it had no grounds to appeal a four-match-suspension for a king…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115163,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,689,684,55534,81753,81751,33201,596,81754,81747,81759,81756,81755,81758,81748,673,81749,677,81745,85,81752,81757,81744,81750,81746,19121],"class_list":["post-115162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-ben-cotton","tag-country-football","tag-country-football-club","tag-country-football-king","tag-elimination-final-win","tag-football","tag-football-king-hit","tag-hit-suspension","tag-independent-tribunal","tag-jon-henry","tag-king-hit","tag-michael-duncan","tag-murray-football-league","tag-new-south-wales","tag-north-albury","tag-oceania","tag-ovens-and-murray-league","tag-sports","tag-top-country-club","tag-top-country-football","tag-tribunal-chairman","tag-wangaratta-football-and-netball-club","tag-xavier-laverty","tag-young-players"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115162","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=115162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}