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Camera IconBen Long of the Suns is seen arguing with an umpire. Credit: Russell Freeman\/AFL Photos<\/p>\nCollingwood defender Brayden Maynard has learnt his fate for an umpire push as he attempted to enter a melee against Gold Coast on Saturday.<\/p>\n
The premiership Magpie pushed umpire, Nicholas Brown, as he attempted to remonstrate with Sun Ben Long for a brutal bump from behind that left Maynard on the floor clutching his ribs.<\/p>\n
Many defended Maynard as he was being accosted by multiple other Suns players at the time, who appeared to push him towards Brown.<\/p>\n
And it seems the Match Review Officer agreed, Maynard handed a $5,000 while Touk Miller was also fined the same amount for pushing him towards the umpire in the incident deemed \u201cengaging in Any Other Act of Misconduct\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Match Review Officer has determined that these are not matters that constitute the Direct Tribunal Offence of \u201cIntentional Contact with an Umpire\u201d,\u201d an AFL statement read on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Further, the Match Review Officer has also determined that these are not matters that constitute the Fixed Financial Offence of \u201cUnreasonable or Unnecessary Contact with an Umpire\u201d or \u201cCareless Contact with an Umpire\u201d.<\/p>\n
Long, however, was not so lucky, offered a two-week suspension for the hit on the Magpies defender which the MRO deemed was rough conduct.<\/p>\n
Maynard ended up on the ground again in the ensuing melee, with his teammates also going after Long.<\/p>\n
Maynard himself spoke post-game as Collingwood held on for a hard-fought victory at People First Stadium.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you\u2019re going to come hit me cheaply, you\u2019re going to get something back,\u201d he told Fox Footy.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s all a part of the game, I didn\u2019t mind it really. I think I might have a broken rib, but it\u2019s all a part of footy.\u201d<\/p>\n
Greater Western Sydney skipper Toby Greene was handed a six-week suspension in 2022 for deliberately touching an umpire.<\/p>\n
Channel 7 expert Kane Cornes was squarely in Maynard\u2019s corner.<\/p>\n
Camera IconBen Long of the Suns is seen arguing with an umpire. Credit: Russell Freeman\/AFL Photos<\/p>\n
\u201cTeam Maynard. Pathetic from Gold Coast Suns,\u201d he wrote on X.<\/p>\n
\u201cMaynard, with a popped shoulder and a broken rib laid a game high nine tackles (six in the second half). Gold Coast Suns had 15 players who laid one or less. Says it all.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Collingwood defender Brayden Maynard has learnt his fate for an umpire push as he attempted to enter a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":780208,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,10133,588,85],"class_list":["post-780207","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-collingwood-magpies","tag-sport","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780207","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=780207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/780208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}