\n The match review findings for Thursday night’s clash between Hawthorn and Collingwood are in\n <\/p>\n
Jai Newcombe and Jeremy Howe are seen after a collision during the Round 22 match between Hawthorn and Collingwood at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on August 7, 2025. Picture: AFL Photos<\/p>\n
HAWTHORN midfielder Jai Newcombe has escaped any sanction after a huge collision with Jeremy Howe left the Collingwood defender out cold in Thursday night’s clash.<\/p>\n
Howe will miss at least next week’s clash with ladder leader Adelaide as he goes into the 12-day concussion protocols, but has been cleared of further injury.<\/p>\n
The 35-year-old was taken from the MCG to be assessed in hospital, but released after several hours of tests and scans.<\/p>\n
“In positive news, subsequent scans over night have cleared him of any further injury,” Collingwood football boss Charlie Gardiner said. “Jeremy has since returned home and is recovering well.\u00a0<\/p>\n
‘He will work through the concussion protocols with the support of our medical team.”<\/p>\n
Howe was knocked out in the collision with Newcombe less than two minutes into the match and had to be taken off the ground on a stretcher.<\/p>\n
The Hawks star underwent his own head injury assessment in the rooms but was cleared to return to the field.<\/p>\n
He went on to become one of his side’s best players, gathering 28 disposals and a goal in the 64-point thumping.<\/p>\n
In assessing the incident, Match Review Officer Michael Christian said Newcombe’s attempt to tackle Howe was ‘not unreasonable in the circumstances’ and did not constitute a reportable offence.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Mabior Chol and Dan McStay can each accept $2000 fines after being charged with rough conduct and tripping, respectively.<\/p>\n
Incident explained:
The incident involving Hawthorn\u2019s Jai Newcombe and Collingwood\u2019s Jeremy Howe from the First Quarter of Thursday night\u2019s match was assessed by the Match Review Officer. Newcombe and Howe approach a loose ball from opposite directions and as the ball bounces towards and into the possession of Howe, Newcombe elects to tackle and in this attempt to tackle, a head clash occurs. It was the view of the MRO that Newcombe\u2019s attempt to tackle was\u00a0not unreasonable in the circumstances and did not constitute a\u00a0Reportable\u00a0Offence. No further action was taken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The match review findings for Thursday night’s clash between Hawthorn and Collingwood are in Jai Newcombe and Jeremy…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52388,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85,83],"class_list":["post-52387","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-sports","tag-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52387","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=52387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}