{"id":53216,"date":"2025-08-08T15:44:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T15:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/53216\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T15:44:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T15:44:06","slug":"dylan-shiel-pushes-mark-oconnor-into-luamon-lual-in-geelong-cats-win-over-essendon-bombers-video-mro-results-garry-lyon-reaction-latest-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/53216\/","title":{"rendered":"Dylan Shiel pushes Mark O\u2019Connor into Luamon Lual in Geelong Cats win over Essendon Bombers, video, MRO results, Garry Lyon reaction, latest news"},"content":{"rendered":"

Essendon midfielder Dylan Shiel could come under scrutiny from the Match Review Officer for a \u201cdangerous\u201d pushing act that led to a scary collision with teammate Luamon Lual during Geelong\u2019s win over the Bombers at GMHBA Stadium<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Shiel during a contest on the wing in the second term shoved Mark O\u2019Connor into the pathway of a soaring Lual running back with the flight as the young Bomber was tunnelled and flipped backwards.<\/p>\n

Lual was eventually able to get to his feet and leave the ground with a trainer in a sigh of relief as he appeared to avoid serious injury. The 20-year old returned to the game after half-time and was subbed out for tactical purposes.<\/p>\n

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But Demons legend Garry Lyon wasn\u2019t a fan of the action from Shiel, saying it warrants a suspension.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s dangerous by Dylan Shiel. Fine, suspended, whatever you want there. I think that\u2019s a suspension,\u201d Lyon said on the Fox Footy broadcast.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is what we talk about with tunnelling and pushing players into contests, this is why we get up in arms about it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lyon post-match doubled down on the \u201cugly incident\u201d he \u201cdidn\u2019t like one bit,\u201d calling for new AFL footy boss Greg Swann to \u201cstamp it out\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cGreg Swann is sitting at home, enough of that, stamp it out. Give him one or two weeks,\u201d Lyon said. <\/p>\n

\u201cYou can\u2019t go pushing blokes like that. The danger of that is extraordinary. Make a stand now.\u201d<\/p>\n

Essendon coach Brad Scott said Lual was \u201cable to function\u201d but \u201cvery sore\u201d and suggested Shiel shouldn\u2019t be banned for the friendly fire action. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019ll be an interesting one. I\u2019m not sure if you can get suspended for hurting your own player, but we\u2019ll see,\u201d Scott said post-match.<\/p>\n

\u201c(Lual) was very sore, but he was able to function and he competed hard. But we just felt that \u2013 while he was able to function, he was sore, so we needed to make the sub anyway. He was the obvious candidate, to us.\u201d<\/p>\n

The AFL sent a memo earlier this year warning clubs for potential suspension for players who push opponents in marking contests with the potential to cause injury.<\/p>\n

Collingwood forward Brody Mihocek was cleared for a similar incident with Richmond defender Nick Vlasutin two weeks ago. <\/p>\n

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However Richmond\u2019s Rhyan Mansell in March copped a three-match ban for pushing Liam O\u2019Connor into teammate Tom Lynch in an action that caused the Saint to get concussed. Meanwhile Carlton\u2019s Ben Camporeale last month was given a four-match ban for initiating a nasty head clash between Brisbane players James Tunstill and Deven Robertson in the VFL.<\/p>\n

Herald Sun reporter Jon Ralph thinks the AFL should \u201ccrack down\u201d on these \u201cdangerous\u201d pushing incidents, but highlighted the \u201cthreshold is high\u201d as MRO Michael Christian needs to ascertain whether Shiel could reasonably foresee his action would cause injury.<\/p>\n

Ralph expects Shiel to only be fined given Christian has never suspended a player for putting a teammate in harm\u2019s way. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe bizarre thing here is Michael Christian in his 12 years in the MRO has never penalised someone for pushing an opponent and hurting his own teammate,\u201d Ralph said on Fox Footy post-match.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not to say it can\u2019t happen, it\u2019s just not really there in the guidelines \u2026 I think it constitutes something that should be fined.\u201d<\/p>\n

Respected broadcaster Gerard Whateley believes there needs to be a \u201ctotal crackdown on that action\u201d this off-season.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf it needs to be prescribed, prescribe it. If it needs to be dictated to the players: \u2018Hey, we\u2019re going to treat this with the greatest of severity\u2019. It will stop,\u201d Whateley said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a very unnatural thing we\u2019ve seen and completely avoidable.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Essendon midfielder Dylan Shiel could come under scrutiny from the Match Review Officer for a \u201cdangerous\u201d pushing act…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53217,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,684,44392,696,44388,25839,44391,44385,44390,10145,13659,61,6278,44387,12141,681,44389,8004,44394,44386,44383,85,44393,11287,12120,44384],"class_list":["post-53216","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-ben-cotton","tag-bizarre-thing","tag-brad-scott","tag-deven-robertson","tag-dylan-shiel","tag-extraordinary-danger","tag-four-match-ban","tag-friendly-fire-action","tag-garry-lyon","tag-geelong-cats","tag-gerard-whateley","tag-greg-swann","tag-james-tunstill","tag-jeremy-cameron","tag-jon-ralph","tag-mark-oconnor","tag-michael-christian","tag-post-match-doubled","tag-pushing-incidents","tag-scary-collision","tag-sports","tag-suspension-players","tag-three-match-ban","tag-tom-lynch","tag-warning-clubs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53216","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=53216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}