Join now and get your first month for just $1.<\/a><\/p>\nThe earlier incident saw McGrath push Xerri into Archer Roberts, which floored the wounded Roos ruckman and left him appear to feel for blood on his nose.<\/p>\n
\u201cDon\u2019t do that Tristan,\u201d Melbourne great Garry Lyon said on Fox Footy.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt did appear he was pointing to his nose, he had a blood nose, he was touching it with his fingers. Whether he might\u2019ve put it onto Andy McGrath.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is the issue here, he\u2019s telling McGrath he has a blood nose. That\u2019s not what you want to see in the game.\u201d<\/p>\n
The incident where Tristan Xerri appeared to try and wipe blood on Andy McGrath’s face.Source: FOX<\/p>\n
Chief Herald Sun reporter Jay Clark suggested Xerri would face suspension.<\/p>\n
\u201cA bizarre moment,\u201d Clark said on Fox Footy.<\/p>\n
\u201cA moment of madness really from Tristan Xerri.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd it could cost him a couple of weeks suspension.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe goes down, the to Essendon players make contact with him. He\u2019s got a bit of claret coming from the nose.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe shows the umpire \u2013 look I\u2019ve got a blood nose. The play moves forward \u2013 he kicks the goal, then he\u2019s up into McGrath\u2019s face.<\/p>\n
\u201cWatch what he does with his hands! Grabs some of that blood and thrusts it onto the face of Andrew McGrath \u2013 the captain of Essendon.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat is horrible. It is a horrible look for younger kids out there, for junior players.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a serious misconduct charge under the AFL tribunal guidelines.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat means it\u2019ll be directly referred to the AFL Tribunal \u2013 we\u2019re looking at multiple weeks\u2019 suspension\u201d<\/p>\n
Dual All-Australian Leigh Montagna added: \u201cI certainly think that needs to go to the Tribunal \u2013 he needs to cop a sanction.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s a horrible look.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not acceptable and not something we\u2019ve seen for a long time<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not sure what Tristan Xerri was thinking in that situation \u2013 but we can\u2019t have that.<\/p>\n
\u201cMost likely he\u2019s going to be missing some football.\u201d<\/p>\n
Collingwood legend Nathan Buckley received a one-match ban in 2002 for deliberately smearing blood on Geelong\u2019s Cameron Ling.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile Magpies veteran and former Demon Jeremy Howe copped a fine in 2012 for wiping blood on the shorts of Port Adelaide opponent Tom Jonas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"North Melbourne ruckman Tristan Xerri is under fire for a \u201cmoment of madness\u201d where he appeared to attempt…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":569838,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,2095,36846,280046,64,63,689,55,639,684,280044,280050,263105,10145,27237,280045,19125,10991,280049,2041,2067,677,6082,6858,1124,85,280048,280047,14428,2614,4899],"class_list":["post-569837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-america","tag-andrew-mcgrath","tag-archer-roberts","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-ben-cotton","tag-bizarre-blood-wiping-incident","tag-blood-nose","tag-cameron-ling","tag-garry-lyon","tag-herald-sun","tag-horrible-look","tag-jay-clark","tag-josh-treacy","tag-moment-minutes","tag-north-america","tag-northern-america","tag-oceania","tag-port-adelaide","tag-richmond","tag-south-australia","tag-sports","tag-tom-jonas","tag-tribunal-guidelines","tag-tristan-xerri","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-virginia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569837","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=569837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/569838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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