Join now and get your first month for just $1<\/a>.<\/p>\nHeeney was initially given the all-clear to keep playing before eventually going down to the rooms to be assessed for a concussion just before half-time. <\/p>\n
The Swans superstar was cleared to return to the game in the second half.<\/p>\n
Curnow gears up to face Blues in debut | 03:43<\/p>\n
It prompted conversation from Fox Footy pundits at half-time as to whether Florent could face any scrutiny for the big hit. <\/p>\n
\u201cYou argue there\u2019s a carelessness in his inability to try and step over,\u201d Saints great Leigh Montagna said, noting the two player had \u201cquite a heated moment\u201d earlier.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe were getting right into it. Whether there\u2019s a little sub conscious bias, that it was Florent being a little more reckless because of this incident earlier in the quarter,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not sure you can read too much into it.\u201d <\/p>\n
Hawthorn legend Jason Dunstall suggested the contact was a sheer accident, despite some suggestions from the online footy public that it was intentional. <\/p>\n
\u201cHere\u2019s my thought \u2014 he looks to make sure he doesn\u2019t trot on him with the right leg, then he lifts the head to follow the footy,\u201d Dunstall said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think he thinks the left leg is going to go over the top of him. That\u2019s the way I would interpret it, but some people are a little more sinister than that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Curnow gets his first in Swans colours! | 00:45<\/p>\n
Fox Footy\u2019s Sarah Jones added: \u201cI think it was an accident with an element of carelessness. If that was Patrick Cripps on the ground, does his head get knocked?\u201d<\/p>\n
To which Montagna responded: \u201cHe maybe takes a bit more care, (but) you\u2019ve got to give the benefit of the doubt to Ollie Florent.\u201d<\/p>\n
Speaking post-match, Herald Sun journalist Jon Ralph said Florent shouldn\u2019t have a case to answer for from the MRO. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt split the footy public, I think it split the Fox Footy panel. (But) there\u2019s no way Ollie Florent is going to get suspended for kneeing Heeney,\u201d Ralph said<\/p>\n
\u201cKneeing is a classifiable offence, but even a concussion wouldn\u2019t be a game changer.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe injury is only considered if it\u2019s a reportable offence. You consider \u2018accidentally on purpose\u2019. Who\u2019s the king of that? Toby Greene.<\/p>\n
\u201cGreene was in the radio boxes today and he said it was a Shane Mumford special. Maybe it was a bit of that, but I just think it\u2019s the eye test; he almost would\u2019ve had to divert into the path of Heeney.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An incident involving an ex-teammate kneeing Isaac Heeney\u2019s head has come under the microscope from the AFL\u2019s season-opening…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":520446,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[64,63,689,684,259681,3239,1129,42137,3487,12149,3465,673,677,49673,7800,19093,33195,259679,85,259680,670,7200],"class_list":["post-520445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-ben-cotton","tag-blues-lock-horns","tag-carlton-blues","tag-charlie-curnow","tag-hawthorn-legend","tag-isaac-heeney","tag-jason-dunstall","tag-leigh-montagna","tag-new-south-wales","tag-oceania","tag-ollie-florent","tag-patrick-cripps","tag-sarah-jones","tag-season-opener","tag-season-opening-clash","tag-sports","tag-sub-conscious-bias","tag-sydney","tag-sydney-swans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520445","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=520445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/520446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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