Join now and get your first month for just $1.<\/a><\/p>\nBehind-the-goals vision aired on Fox Footy showed Curtis appearing to lash out at Hastie right on the quarter-time siren, with the hit causing tempers to fray. <\/p>\n
As North star Nick Larkey lined up for a shot on goal, Curtis and Hastie could be seen coming together near the goal line, with what followed leaving Hastie clutching at his throat. <\/p>\n
Confirmation came after the quarter time break that Curtis had been reported for striking.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe fact it\u2019s behind the play \u2013 these things are usually graded as intentional,\u201d Fox Sports\u2019 David Zita explained.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo that will already lower the threshold for what the impact has to be for this to be a one-match ban.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe know the AFL doesn\u2019t like this \u2013 behind the ball shots at other player.\u201d<\/p>\n
It\u2019s not the first time this season Curtis has drawn the ire of the MRO, after his controversial three-match ban for a dangerous tackle back in April.<\/p>\n
\u201cPaul Curtis had that dangerous tackle ban that had North Melbourne fans up in arms \u2013 this one is purely of his own doing,\u201d Zita said.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s put himself on the MRO\u2019s radar … open hand or no, striking charges they are certainly something the AFL wants to get out of the game. It\u2019s something that didn\u2019t need to happen.\u201d<\/p>\n
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At GMHBA Stadium, Stewart left the ground in an attempt to smother Wines\u2019 handball, clattering into the Brownlow medallist and leaving him grounded. <\/p>\n
The five-time All-Australian can be seen bracing for impact mid-air, but it\u2019s his hip that makes contact with Wines. <\/p>\n
The Power midfielder was thankfully able to play out the game, with Michael Christian judging the incident as careless conduct, low impact and high contact \u2014 resulting in a $2,000 fine, meaning he\u2019s free to play Essendon on Friday night. <\/p>\n
Elsewhere, North Melbourne forward Cam Zurhaar has escaped sanction for an act against Saints ruckman Rowan Marshall. <\/p>\n
The MRO released the following statement regarding its call not to sanction the Roo: \u201cThe incident involving North Melbourne\u2019s Cameron Zurhaar and St Kilda\u2019s Rowan Marshall from the Second Quarter of Sunday\u2019s match was assessed. Based on the evidence available it was the view of the MRO that Zurhaar makes negligible high contact (if any) with Marshall in the contest. No further action was taken.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"North Melbourne forward Paul Curtis has been suspended for the second time this season, this time for an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42556,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[63,689,9203,10143,37359,37362,37363,8011,43,6179,7804,44,24305,677,37357,23596,37358,37361,19093,1122,37360,7200,41,39,42,40,660],"class_list":["post-42555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-catherine-healey","tag-craig-mcrae","tag-dangerous-tackle","tag-dangerous-tackle-back","tag-dangerous-tackle-ban","tag-david-zita","tag-headlines","tag-jack-silvagni","tag-melbourne-demons","tag-news","tag-nick-larkey","tag-oceania","tag-one-match-ban","tag-quarter-time","tag-quarter-time-break","tag-quarter-time-siren","tag-sarah-jones","tag-st-kilda","tag-swans-ampamp-dees","tag-sydney-swans","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-victoria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42555","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=42555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}