{"id":621100,"date":"2026-04-21T09:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T09:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/621100\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T09:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T09:36:09","slug":"gws-youngster-fails-to-overturn-ban-at-afl-tribunal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/621100\/","title":{"rendered":"GWS youngster fails to overturn ban at AFL tribunal"},"content":{"rendered":"

GWS young gun Joe Fonti will miss the Giants’ clash with North Melbourne after unsuccessfully contesting his rough conduct charge against Sydney superstar Isaac Heeney.<\/p>\n

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Fonti, who has played all six games this season, was given a one-match ban for a fourth-quarter incident involving Heeney in last Friday night’s Sydney derby defeat.<\/p>\n

Joe Fonti of the Giants runs the ball.\u00a0Cameron Spencer\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

The incident was graded as careless conduct, medium impact and high contact by match review officer Michael Christian.<\/p>\n

GWS attempted to downgrade the impact from medium to low, as well as having the contact graded to body instead of the head.<\/p>\n

But after deliberating for more than 40 minutes, the AFL<\/a> tribunal upheld the charge, meaning Fonti will need to sit out this Sunday’s clash with the Kangaroos in Canberra.<\/p>\n

Fonti told the tribunal he was trying to smother the ball, but realised he wasn’t going to be able to.<\/p>\n

Instead of smothering, Fonti said he braced for contact with Heeney, arguing the impact was against Heeney’s shoulder.<\/p>\n

In the final case at the tribunal on Tuesday night, Gold Coast will try to overturn a one-game suspension for dashing defender John Noble.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GWS young gun Joe Fonti will miss the Giants’ clash with North Melbourne after unsuccessfully contesting his rough…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":621101,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-621100","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-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621100","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=621100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/621101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}