{"id":62200,"date":"2025-08-12T09:30:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T09:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/62200\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T09:30:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T09:30:11","slug":"dylan-shiel-banned-for-one-game-by-afl-tribunal-after-luamon-lual-mark-oconnor-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/62200\/","title":{"rendered":"Dylan Shiel banned for one game by AFL tribunal after Luamon Lual-Mark O&#8217;Connor incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Essendon&#8217;s Dylan Shiel has been banned for one game over the incident that forced his own teammate off the field during their AFL clash with Geelong on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Shiel pushed Geelong&#8217;s Mark O&#8217;Connor as they jostled for position to mark on the wing in the second quarter at Kardinia Park, with O&#8217;Connor colliding heavily with Bomber Luamon Lual as he tracked back with the flight of the ball.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">O&#8217;Connor hit the legs of a leaping Lual, who tumbled spectacularly through the air before slamming back to the turf, landing awkwardly on his head and shoulder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Lual jarred his back and had to leave the field in the care of trainers, before returning later in the match.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Shiel was referred directly to the tribunal, where the AFL argued Shiel&#8217;s duty of care with regards to rough conduct was extended to all players, including teammates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Shiel argued he only had eyes for the ball and thought he was pushing O&#8217;Connor into open space away from the contest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">After a long deliberation, the tribunal ruled Shiel&#8217;s forceful push on O&#8217;Connor was unreasonable and breached his duty of care.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">He will miss Friday&#8217;s game against St Kilda at Docklands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Essendon&#8217;s Dylan Shiel has been banned for one game over the incident that forced his own teammate off&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62201,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-62200","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\/62200","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=62200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}