\n Ty Gallop was sent to the AFL Tribunal over his shove on Port Adelaide’s Mitch Georgiades\n <\/p>\n
Mitch Georgiades is tackled by Ty Gallop during the R20 match between Brisbane and Port Adelaide at the Gabba on July 26, 2026. Picture: AFL Photos<\/p>\n
BRISBANE defender Ty Gallop has been suspended for three games for a serious misconduct act he admits is a “very bad look” for the AFL.<\/p>\n
Gallop pleaded guilty at the AFL Tribunal on Tuesday night for what he described as retaliation on Mitch Georgiades after the Port Adelaide forward grabbed his broken thumb.<\/p>\n
The 20-year-old had tackled Georgiades to the ground during Sunday’s clash in Brisbane and, after the ball left the area, shoved the Port attacker face-first into the turf.<\/p>\n
Gallop played the match with strapping on a broken right thumb.<\/p>\n
“Mitch has grabbed my thumb as I have gone to stand up,” Gallop said, adding Georgiades’ action was intentional.<\/p>\n
But Gallop expressed remorse for retaliating, saying he had phoned Georgiades to apologise.<\/p>\n
“Looking back now and watching the footage, I understand that the retaliation to what happened wasn’t fair,” he said.<\/p>\n
“I have gone out of my way to push him down, which I am sorry for and I do regret. I’d like to have that time over again.<\/p>\n
“It’s a very bad look and there’s no room for it in footy.”<\/p>\n
Gallop said his retaliation was an “immediate reaction”.<\/p>\n
“I have grabbed the back of his jersey and pushed him back into the ground,” he said.<\/p>\n
“I think I play a hard brand of footy but I play a very fair brand of footy as well … it was purely out of retaliation.”<\/p>\n
Under questioning from the AFL’s counsel Nick Pane, Gallop agreed his act was totally unreasonable and unacceptable.<\/p>\n
Pane asked the Tribunal for a three-game suspension.<\/p>\n
“Georgiades’ head made forceful contact with the ground,” Pane said. “The action had significant potential to cause serious injury.”<\/p>\n
The Port spearhead wasn’t hurt in the incident.<\/p>\n
Gallop’s counsel Adrian Anderson said the 23-gamer had “lashed out” but argued for a two-match ban.<\/p>\n
“There is a context here,” Anderson said.<\/p>\n
“It’s different where someone has a broken thumb and it’s grabbed and they react in the heat of the moment.”<\/p>\n
After hearing just over one hour of evidence, Tribunal chairman Jeff Gleeson KC and members Darren Gaspar and Scott Stevens returned a verdict some 50 minutes later.<\/p>\n
Gleeson said the Tribunal gave no weight in its deliberations to Gallop’s thumb being grabbed before his misconduct.<\/p>\n
“The vision of the serious misconduct is startling in the degree to which it is unsportsmanlike,” he said.<\/p>\n
Gallop is the sixth AFL player suspended on a serious misconduct charge and the second this season, following North Melbourne ruckman Tristan Xerri’s three-game ban for wiping blood onto the face of Essendon captain Andrew McGrath in a match in March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ty Gallop was sent to the AFL Tribunal over his shove on Port Adelaide’s Mitch Georgiades Mitch Georgiades…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":828853,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-828852","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\/828852","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=828852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/828853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=828852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=828852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=828852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}