{"id":647872,"date":"2026-05-03T23:42:36","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T23:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/647872\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T23:42:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T23:42:36","slug":"afl-mro-gold-coast-speedster-in-trouble-for-tackle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/647872\/","title":{"rendered":"AFL MRO: Gold Coast speedster in trouble for tackle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gold Coast&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohanger.com\/afl\/players\/sam-clohesy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Sam Clohesy;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Sam Clohesy&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Sam Clohesy<\/a> can expect scrutiny over his tackle on GWS winger <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohanger.com\/afl\/players\/ryan-angwin\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Ryan Angwin;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Ryan Angwin&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Ryan Angwin<\/a> during Sunday&#8217;s win at People First Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>In the second term, Clohesy pinned one of Angwin&#8217;s arms in a tackle, before driving him into the ground, resulting in the Giant&#8217;s head bouncing off the ground.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Working against the speedy Sun is that Angwin was ruled out of the match &#8211; and the next 12 days &#8211; with concussion, meaning the impact could be set at high by the Match Review Officer (MRO).<\/p>\n<p>The contact was clearly high, while conduct could be deemed careless, constituting a one-match ban.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Ryan Angwin has been ruled out of the match with concussion after this incident involving Sam Clohesy.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AFLSunsGiants?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#AFLSunsGiants<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4MR7t7itmk\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/4MR7t7itmk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; AFL (@AFL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AFL\/status\/2050900133605187775?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">May 3, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Clohesy did release one arm for Angwin to use to protect himself, which in the eyes of the MRO, could be seen favourably in understanding what a &#8216;reasonable player&#8217; would do in that situation.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Earlier on Sunday, Sydney ruckman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohanger.com\/afl\/players\/brodie-grundy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Brodie Grundy;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Brodie Grundy&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Brodie Grundy<\/a> will be lucky to avoid any punishment for his off-the-ball hit on Melbourne&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohanger.com\/afl\/players\/latrelle-pickett\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Latrelle Pickett;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Latrelle Pickett&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Latrelle Pickett<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>After a Demons goal, Grundy throw out an elbow, which came in contact with Pickett&#8217;s mid-riff. The young forward went down, clutching at his stomach and was immediately attended to by club medicos. Pickett played out the game.<\/p>\n<p>Given that the MRO won&#8217;t deem the contact as high impact, the Swans veteran is set to receive a fine at most given the ball wasn&#8217;t in play, and in the MRO&#8217;s view, isn&#8217;t necessary.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;In order for this to be a suspension it has to be high impact and even though Pickett went down, he didn&#39;t go off the ground &#8230; I can&#39;t imagine Brodie Grundy missing any games for that.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udde3\ufe0f Tom Morris on Brodie Grundy&#39;s contact with Latrelle Pickett <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nFHytlOTXF\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/nFHytlOTXF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; 7AFL (@7AFL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/7AFL\/status\/2050829400980029674?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">May 3, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The MRO and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohanger.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:AFL;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;AFL&quot;}\" class=\"link \">AFL<\/a> have come down harder on off-ball strikes, with those nowhere near the contest or play more often than not constituting suspensions.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gold Coast&#8217;s Sam Clohesy can expect scrutiny over his tackle on GWS winger Ryan Angwin during Sunday&#8217;s win&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":647873,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,80387,313571,85,133],"class_list":["post-647872","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-ryan-angwin","tag-sam-clohesy","tag-sports","tag-sun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647872","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=647872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/647873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}