\n The Match Review findings from Friday night’s round 17 games are in\n <\/p>\n
Matt Kennedy in action during the Western Bulldogs’ clash against Essendon in round four, 2026. Picture: Getty Images<\/p>\n
WESTERN Bulldogs midfielder Matt Kennedy has been offered a one-match ban for his bump on Caiden Cleary during Friday night’s loss to Sydney.<\/p>\n
Kennedy caught Cleary high as both looked to gather a loose ball during the second quarter of the Bulldogs’ loss at the SCG.<\/p>\n
The Match Review Officer charged Kennedy with forceful front-on contact, grading it as careless conduct, medium impact and high contact.<\/p>\n
If he accepts the ban, Kennedy will miss the Bulldogs’ clash against West Coast next week.<\/p>\n
That was the only suspension from Friday night’s games, with teammate Will Lewis fined for staging in the final quarter.<\/p>\n
Jordan Croft and Dane Rampe also received fines, while West Coast’s Elliot Yeo was fined for making careless contact with an umpire in the Eagles’ loss to Adelaide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Match Review findings from Friday night’s round 17 games are in Matt Kennedy in action during the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":778198,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,83,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-778197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-text","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778197","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=778197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/778198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=778197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=778197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=778197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}