Richmond defender Luke Trainor has been offered a suspension for his behind-the-play gut punch on West Coast forward Jack Williams.<\/p>\n
Trainor can accept a one-week ban for the blow to the midriff that forced Williams off the field, but was missed by the on-field umpires.<\/p>\n
The pair were exchanging words and jostling in the Eagles\u2019 goalsquare during the second quarter of Sunday\u2019s clash at the MCG when the Tiger ended things with a punch to Williams\u2019 stomach.<\/p>\n
The forward instantly dropped to his haunches as Trainor, who is in his second AFL season, walked away.<\/p>\n
Williams came from the ground shortly after.<\/p>\n
The Match Review Officer reviewed footage and determined the strike was intentional, medium-impact contact to the body, handing down a one-week suspension.<\/p>\n
Richmond coach Adem Yze had been hopeful, post-match, Trainor would escape with a fine, but said it was something the club worked with the young players to avoid.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not too sure how hard the impact was, but if he\u2019s gone and done something wrong, we\u2019ll look at it,\u201d Yze said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think there have been a few fines over the last few occasions when things like this have happened, so hopefully, we can get that type of result.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe don\u2019t want to be losing players through stupidity (when we have so many injuries), so hopefully, it wasn\u2019t too bad. We\u2019ve educated our players, and they understand what\u2019s right and wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n
Gut punches were the target of changes to the tribunal gradings in February, but this is one of the first to result in a ban, with low-impact strikes generally resulting in a fine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Richmond defender Luke Trainor has been offered a suspension for his behind-the-play gut punch on West Coast forward…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":841420,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,672,588,85,7067],"class_list":["post-841419","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-richmond-tigers","tag-sport","tag-sports","tag-west-coast-eagles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841419","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=841419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/841420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=841419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=841419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=841419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}