Essendon star banned for a game over incident that hurt his own teammate

[ad_1] Essendon stalwart Dylan Shiel has been banned for one recreation for tough conduct in an AFL tribunal check case which has cut up opinion.

The tribunal took nearly two hours to achieve a verdict — twice so long as the listening to for Shiel's uncommon cost referring to an incident that felled a teammate.

The Bomber veteran pushed Geelong's Mark O'Connor, inflicting the Cat to collide with Shiel's teammate Luamon Lual.

After a 66-minute listening to, the tribunal returned 113 minutes later with its determination to droop Shiel for one match.

"This case is slightly out of the strange," AFL counsel Nick Pane KC stated, conceding the cost "would not match neatly" within the league's gradings.

Shiel's counsel Ben Ihle KC stated the cost was an over-reach.

"It's clear, in our submission, that the intention (of legal guidelines) is the safety of opposition gamers," Ihle stated.

"And subsequently the invitation that the AFL has prolonged to the tribunal to look past O'Connor, and have a look at the incidental penalties by Shiel's conduct to a different participant, is misconceived.

"Not solely does it not match neatly, to make use of Mr Pane's phrases … this can be a state of affairs that guidelines don't cowl."

Shiel instructed the listening to his intent was to mark or at worst shield the drop zone of an incoming ball.

"After I contested and received the bottom ball, I used to be fairly shocked to see one other teammate on the bottom," Shiel stated.

"I did not understand how he received there."

Lual flipped spectacularly and landed awkwardly on his neck and shoulder. ( AAP Pictures: Joel Carrett )

Lual flipped spectacularly and landed awkwardly on his neck and shoulder, however after being assessed by medicos, returned earlier than being substituted.

Tribunal chair Renee Enbom stated the drive of Shiel's push on O'Connor was "unreasonable".

"It was not conduct {that a} cheap participant would take into account prudent," she stated.

"Shiel breached his responsibility of care."

Essendon coach Brad Scott, beforehand the top of AFL soccer operations, earlier Tuesday stated the Bombers had copped a "triple whammy" of punishment: a free kick in opposition to, Lual's damage and a tribunal case.

"We've got been penalised thrice with out the opposition really being the sufferer, so far as I can see," he instructed reporters earlier than the listening to.

However GWS coach Adam Kingsley stated Shiel's case was comparable with Richmond's Rhyan Mansell being banned three video games by the tribunal for pushing St Kilda's Liam O'Connell right into a marking contest.

The AFL cited Mansell's case as proof throughout Shiel's listening to.

"I did not just like the motion … it might have ended actually badly," Kingsley instructed Fox Footy.

However Western Bulldogs coach Luke Beveridge stated Shiel's intent was key.

"I do not assume he is planning to push somebody into his teammate," Beveridge stated.

Adelaide will later Tuesday problem veteran Rory Laird's one-game tough conduct ban for a excessive bump, which at present guidelines him out of Saturday's important dwelling recreation in opposition to Collingwood.