{"id":528416,"date":"2026-03-09T08:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T08:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/528416\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T08:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T08:02:08","slug":"brisbane-lions-challenge-harris-andrews-darcy-gardiner-suspensions-for-sydney-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/528416\/","title":{"rendered":"Brisbane Lions challenge Harris Andrews, Darcy Gardiner suspensions for Sydney clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI got smashed for saying this &#8211; yes, we\u2019re trying to stamp out concussions &#8211; but I thought Andrews meant to body check,\u201d King told SEN.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s flushed him in the face. I said three weeks down to one, and it got hammered on the weekend. There was no intention (to hurt) &#8211; it\u2019s a rarity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Lions face the Swans, St Kilda at Marvel Stadium in round three and Collingwood on Easter Thursday in their next three games. They have a bye in round two.<\/p>\n<p>Gardiner was given a one-match ban for a late hit with a forearm to the face of forward Aaron Naughton in the final minutes of the match, conceding a 50-metre penalty.<\/p>\n<p>The incident was graded as careless conduct, medium impact and high contact, prompting a one-week ban.<\/p>\n<p>Bailey, one of the league\u2019s top free agents this season, was handed a one-match ban for elbowing Michael Sellwood in the head during a scuffle on the wing in the third quarter.<\/p>\n<p>The incident was graded as intentional conduct, low impact and high contact, triggering a one-game ban.<\/p>\n<p>The Lions opted not to challenge this decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI got smashed for saying this &#8211; yes, we\u2019re trying to stamp out concussions &#8211; but I thought&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":528417,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-528416","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"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528416","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=528416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/528417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}