{"id":811562,"date":"2026-07-20T04:53:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T04:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/811562\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T04:53:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T04:53:12","slug":"afl-news-2026-adelaide-crows-challenge-darcy-fogarty-three-game-suspension-high-tackle-on-sydneys-harry-cunningham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/811562\/","title":{"rendered":"AFL news 2026: Adelaide Crows challenge Darcy Fogarty three-game suspension, high tackle on Sydney\u2019s Harry Cunningham"},"content":{"rendered":"

Adelaide<\/a> will challenge a three-game ban handed down to Darcy Fogarty in a call that angered club great Rory Sloane<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Fogarty was charged by the match review officer for his tackle on Harry Cunningham on Friday night that left the Sydney<\/a> star with a concussion. <\/p>\n

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Darcy Fogarty\u2019s high tackle on Harry Cunningham.\u00a0Nine<\/p>\n

The incident was graded as careless conduct, severe impact and high contact by the MRO, who offered the Crows forward a hefty ban.<\/p>\n

The club have since confirmed they will take the ruling to the AFL tribunal, with the hearing fast-tracked for Monday night.<\/p>\n

Speaking on Nine\u2019s Sunday Footy Show, former captain Sloane admitted his \u201cconfusion\u201d over the tackle and similar instances this season.<\/p>\n

\u201cAre they deeming this a strike or a tackle? I\u2019m a bit angry about this one,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s so much confusion because everything is based around outcome. How many times does it happen throughout a game where someone does a head-high tackle \u2026 you could see he was just trying to tackle him with force. <\/p>\n

\u201cCareless, absolutely – I just don\u2019t think it\u2019s worth three [games]. It\u2019s a careless tackle that got him high and unfortunately had the outcome of a concussion.\u201d<\/p>\n

Co-host Tony Jones echoed those sentiments.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m 100 per cent with Rory on this one – if he wasn\u2019t concussed, we wouldn\u2019t be having this discussion at all and that should not be the case,\u201d Jones said.<\/p>\n

Fogarty has been in strong form with the Crows and booted four goals in the 87-71 win over the Swans that pushed his side up to fifth on the AFL ladder.<\/p>\n

Adelaide will meet Collingwood, Essendon and Richmond in the next three weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Adelaide will challenge a three-game ban handed down to Darcy Fogarty in a call that angered club great…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":811563,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-811562","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\/811562","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=811562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/811563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=811562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=811562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=811562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}