{"id":529746,"date":"2026-03-09T22:57:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T22:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/529746\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T22:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T22:57:08","slug":"brisbane-lions-to-fight-harris-andrews-and-darcy-gardiner-bans-at-afl-tribunal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/529746\/","title":{"rendered":"Brisbane Lions to fight Harris Andrews and Darcy Gardiner bans at AFL tribunal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The Brisbane Lions will challenge the suspensions handed to Harris Andrews and Darcy Gardiner in a bid to free the key defensive pair to play in the huge clash with Sydney.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Brisbane lost Hugh McCluggage to a calf strain in a tense first-up defeat to the Western Bulldogs and suffered further blows when Andrews (three matches), Gardiner (one) and Zac Bailey (one) all banned for striking.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The reigning dual premiers won&#8217;t challenge Bailey&#8217;s suspension, but have confirmed they will attempt to overturn the other two decisions at the AFL tribunal on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Co-captain Andrews was charged over the high contact that knocked out the Bulldogs&#8217; Arthur Jones at the Gabba on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The pair had flown for an aerial contest and when the ball hit the deck, the Lions&#8217; skipper threw back his left arm to block Jones&#8217; run but struck him in the face.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Jones was immediately treated and taken off with concussion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The incident was graded careless conduct, high contact and severe impact, drawing a three-match suspension.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/radio\/programs\/abc-sport-daily\" data-component=\"FullBleedLink\" class=\"RelatedCard_link__rsgR9 FullBleedLink_root__lTw_U interactive_focusContext__yRhc_ interactive_defaults__AKxUU FullBleedLink_showVisited__g3Xvz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ABC Sport Daily podcast<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP RelatedCard_synopsis__cFwMW Typography_sizeMobile14__u7TGe Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">ABC Sport Daily is your daily sports conversation. We dive into the biggest story of the day and get you up to speed with everything else that&#8217;s making headlines.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">It remains to be seen how Brisbane will argue against any of those assessments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The loss of premier defender Andrews would be significant given the Lions face red-hot Sydney and their new spearhead Charlie Curnow at the SCG on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Andrews, 29, is also slated to miss games against St Kilda and Collingwood.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Gardiner was cited for a high arm to Bulldogs forward Aaron Naughton in an action that led to a 50-metre penalty.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">It was assessed as high contact, medium impact and careless conduct, resulting in a one-match ban.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Bailey was cited over his elbow to the head of Bulldogs debutant Michael Sellwood after the Lions star was tackled over the boundary line.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">In better news for Brisbane, ruck recruit Sam Draper is a potential inclusion to face Sydney after battling foot soreness following his recovery from an achilles tear.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">AAP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brisbane Lions will challenge the suspensions handed to Harris Andrews and Darcy Gardiner in a bid to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":529747,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[638,17929,64,63,3237,40737,40742,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-529746","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-afl","9":"tag-afl-tribunal","10":"tag-au","11":"tag-australia","12":"tag-brisbane-lions","13":"tag-darcy-gardiner","14":"tag-harris-andrews","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529746","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=529746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/529747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}