{"id":570026,"date":"2026-03-28T13:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T13:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/570026\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T13:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T13:32:09","slug":"pies-mid-learns-fate-for-off-the-ball-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/570026\/","title":{"rendered":"Pies mid learns fate for off-the-ball strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__summary\">\n                The Match Review Officer&#8217;s findings are in from Friday night&#8217;s round three game\n            <\/p>\n<p>                                Ned Long kicks a goal during the match between Collingwood and Greater Western Sydney at Marvel Stadium in round three, 2026. Picture: AFL Photos<\/p>\n<p>COLLINGWOOD midfielder Ned Long is free to play Brisbane on Easter Thursday despite being cited for striking Greater Western Sydney&#8217;s Clayton Oliver on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>Long made contact with Oliver&#8217;s face\/neck region off the ball, with the Giants recruit going to ground after the blow.<\/p>\n<p>Long immediately held his hand out, appearing to indicate the blow wasn&#8217;t intentional, and the Match Review Officer has deemed the incident only worthy of a fine.<\/p>\n<p>The MRO has tightened gradings around off-the-ball strikes this season, which had raised the prospect of Long possibly being banned for the incident.<\/p>\n<p>But he&#8217;s now in the clear for the blockbuster game against the Lions at the Gabba on Thursday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Match Review Officer&#8217;s findings are in from Friday night&#8217;s round three game Ned Long kicks a goal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":570027,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[64,63,85,83],"class_list":["post-570026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570026","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=570026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/570027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}