click here<\/a><\/p>\nBut the Roos have opted to challenge that sanction on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n
AFL great Leigh Matthews believes the ban is a hefty price to pay.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it\u2019s a careless tackle,\u2019 he said On The Couch.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou pin the arms, turn the body and the other guy\u2019s head hit the ground \u2026 I think that is the criteria of the dangerous tackle.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s a three-weeker \u2026 I do think he\u2019s guilty. I would say it\u2019s careless.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hamish Davis was assisted from the field.Source: Getty Images<\/p>\n
Fellow Couch panellists Nathan Buckley and Jordan Lewis questioned if there were other factors that contributed to Davis\u2019 concussion outcome.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf that was Elliot Yeo that he was tackling \u2026 bit stronger body, a bit heavier \u2013 the exact same tackle, with the exact same intent would we have got the same outcome?\u201d Buckley questioned.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat about the hardness of the surface?\u201d Lewis added.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s the hardest ground in the AFL.\u201d<\/p>\n
The AFL Tribunal hearing will begin at 5pm AEST.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Roo Paul Curtis is headed to the AFL Tribunal to fight his three-match ban for the tackle that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":739724,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-739723","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\/739723","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=739723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/739724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=739723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=739723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=739723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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