{"id":615333,"date":"2026-04-18T15:53:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T15:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/615333\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T15:53:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T15:53:14","slug":"james-sicily-and-dylan-moore-face-nervous-waits-over-gut-punches-to-logan-evans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/615333\/","title":{"rendered":"James Sicily and Dylan Moore face nervous waits over gut punches to Logan Evans"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hawthorn survived a massive scare but the Hawks\u2019 biggest concerns are set to come on Sunday when the AFL match review officer\u2019s findings are handed down.<\/p>\n

Co-captain James Sicily and former vice-captain Dylan Moore are likely to face scrutiny for gut punches during the third quarter of the three-point win over Port Adelaide at Marvel Stadium on Saturday<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Both Moore and Sicily gave away off the ball free kicks after appearing to strike Port opponent Logan Evans during the third term.<\/p>\n

Moore\u2019s hit looked to come more to Evans\u2019 side than his stomach, but it was still a closed-fist action off the ball. Hawks legend Jason Dunstall labelled it as \u201cprobably a week\u201d on Fox Footy\u2019s commentary.<\/p>\n

Evans was again the victim of an off-the-ball hit late in the third quarter, and this time it was skipper Sicily who disappointingly committed the transgression. <\/p>\n

Dunstall was none too pleased with either act. <\/p>\n

‘Can’t do that… and expect to win’ | 04:12<\/p>\n

\u201cI find it incredibly frustrating when I watch acts of ill-discipline or petulance like that,\u201d Dunstall said. <\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019ve got to be able to cope with that (opposition irritants), and the fact is, those players may find themselves out for a week for something that minor, and don\u2019t begrudge if they get rubbed out for a week \u2014 they know what the rules are.\u201d<\/p>\n

Former West Coast coach Simpson added: \u201cWhen it\u2019s your captain, as well \u2026 when the focus in the off-season has been on that, that\u2019s what you need to avoid when you retaliate.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hawks coach Sam Mitchell post-match said \u201cI haven\u2019t seen it and I hope not\u201d when pressed on the incidents. <\/p>\n

Mitchell on THAT 2QTR against Port | 10:05<\/p>\n

The AFL has made no secret of its harder stance against gut punches this year, with such acts now graded as medium impact rather than low in the MRO matrix, resulting in one-match bans on the majority of occasions. <\/p>\n

It means Hawthorn will have a nervous wait heading into its Anzac Day blockbuster against Gold Coast. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hawthorn survived a massive scare but the Hawks\u2019 biggest concerns are set to come on Sunday when the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":615334,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,689,55,639,12111,2485,42251,92519,3231,12149,27709,298706,27756,298709,298711,298710,298705,677,6082,701,298707,298708,12936,56211,1124,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-615333","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-afl","8":"tag-afl","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-australia-and-new-zealand","12":"tag-australian-football-league","13":"tag-australianfootballleague","14":"tag-dylan-moore","15":"tag-gold-coast","16":"tag-hawks-coach","17":"tag-hawks-duo","18":"tag-jack-jovanovski","19":"tag-jason-dunstall","20":"tag-josh-carr","21":"tag-leave-legend","22":"tag-logan-evans","23":"tag-massive-scare","24":"tag-nervous-wait-heading","25":"tag-nervous-waits","26":"tag-nervy-verdict-wait","27":"tag-oceania","28":"tag-port-adelaide","29":"tag-queensland","30":"tag-review-findings","31":"tag-review-officer","32":"tag-sam-mitchell","33":"tag-simpson","34":"tag-south-australia","35":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615333","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=615333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}