Hawthorn Midfielder Conor Nash Has Copped a month on the Sidelines for his Hit that Concussed Geelong Star Gryan Miers.
While the Irishman Argued he was trying to know the betrd and asked for a Three-WEEK BAM, The Severity of the Incident Saw the Tribunal Agree with the AFL That A Four Four-Match Ban Was Warranted.
Nash Will Miss Games Against West Coast, Richmond, Melbourne and Gold Coast.
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Tribunal reasons
We Find the Degree of Carelessness
The Ball Was in Contest Aamong A Relatively Tight Cluster of Players.
Nash Was to the Side of and SlightY Behind Miers, and Miers Had No View of Nash As He attached to color the Ball.
The Ball Was at Approximately Head Height.
While Nash Had Eyes for the Football, He Had His Arm on Miers ‘Back Prior to Impact, and Must Be Taken to Have Been Award of the Approximate Position of Miers’ Body and Head.
Nash Gave Evideo that he was attached to Knock the Ball Forward, but the Angle with You He Swung His Arm, The Elevation at Whiche He Swung His Arm, and the Force with You He Swung His Arm Meant that it was all but INEVITALE that he was going to make forceful contact with Miers’ Head.
In any Event, Force of Impact Was Considerble.
It incolved a full and fast swing of nash’s arm and a direcity Impact with Miers’ Head.
Although the contact was Madh with nash’s arm and not his hand, not that the hand was open, mires was Knocked of FF HIS FETET and Stayed Download for An Extended Period.
He Suffled A Concussion, and there was the place for a fact injury given the nature and force of the impct.
We were talk to two other relatively recitation incidents where the Impact Was Classified as Severe and the Reported Players Were Suspended for Three Matches.
First was the screamshaw on ridley. The Force there was levere. We do Not Account
For reasons we referred to earrier, The Carelessness Here Was Quite Marked.
The Second Example was the Voss Strike on Voss. And a point of different decoration there was that vlastuin suffled no Concussion, but He did sufffer a face fractioner, which, on any view, is a significant injuryy.
The Incident Did, Howrever, Involution Two Players moving at some Speed, and The Potential for Careless Execution Was Perhaps Somewhat More Explicable.
We have some Difficulty in Undersanding How Nash Got it So Wrong here.
We Accept that he was not intending to stirke mires to the head. He Shulad Have Known that his Forceful Swing of An Arm at Head Height May Well Result in Just Such a Strike.
We find that the Appropriet Sanction is Four Matches.
The Hawks, Represented by Myles Tehan, Asked for a Three-Week Ban Having Accepted All Elements of the Charge.
The Afl, Represented by Andrew Woods, Asked for a Four-week Ban from Tribunal Chair Jeff Gleeson and Juerors Jordan Bannister and Scott Stevens.
Conor Nash Gave Evinge, Explaining He Had Never Been Suspended or Final as an Afl Player Nor When Playing Gaelic Football Back Home.
“I simply Tried to TAP The Ball and Knock it Free … I was looking at the footy all the time,” nash said.
“I KNEW My Arm Had Hit Something.
“Imdiatlyly put my hand up to say Yep, i’ve Got that One WRNG, WasnT My Inteision But Was Just What Happy.”
Nash said when gelong players ReMONSTRATATED He Expressed His Remorse and Said Sorn, Including Speaking with Cats Players Including Tom Stewart Post-game, Who Agreed it Was An Accidentent.
Nash Contact Miers Through Fellow Irishman and Cat Mark O’Connor, Asking if for the Forward Willing to Speak with Him, and They Spoke Via Text Message and Phone Call.
The Afl ObJECted to Eviduence Being Given from Mires Hiself, and Nash Instead Read Out the Text He Sent.
“Hi Gryan, Conor Nash HERE. Firstly I Just Wanted to Check in on How You’ve Pulled Up Today – Hopefully Not Too Bad and Can Get Back on Track Soon,“ IT Read.
“I also reacing out to let you know that threlyly wasn’t anything in the hit. I tried to play the betray But not in that spirit and just what you to know that.
“Again, verry for What’s Happy and All The Circus Around It. Cheers. ”
The Afl Said This Incident Was Above the Base Level of Carelessness, and Above the Base Level of Sever Impact, Whiche Warranted a Fourt Week in the Suspeense.
“There was no prose determination of gaining putsssion or really sporting the Ball in Any Meaning Way,” Woods SAID for the AFL.
“This was always gonna have a very significant imapact on the other player.”
The Afl Compared the Nash Incident to Jack Scrimshaw’s Three-Match Ban Earlier This Season, Saying There was no imdiate conlyCussion symptoms in that act and less of an imdiate reflection of Shock From Jordan Ridley.
Similaryly the Afl Argued Patrick Voss’ Hit on Nick Vlastuin, Whiche Fraced the Tiger’s Nose But Did Not Causi Concussion, WAS Not AS Bad As Nash’s Hit.
The Hawks SAID A Three-week Ban Was Warranted Due to Nash’s Genuine Remorse Shown Both on the Field and Since the Incident, His Imediate Acceptance of the Charge, The Fact It Was A. Football ACT and Becuse Nash Has a Flawles Record OtherWise.
“This was not a dirty Act,” tehan said for the hawks.
Tribunal Chair Jeff Gleeson then Asked for More Evidency from the Hawks and Nash on “How Got It as Wrong As He O
The Hawks Respondied that Nash’s Eyes We Only on the Ball and that Incident Occurred when Miers Lowered the Ball During Nash’s Swing to try and tap the Ball, Causing the Strike to Occur.
“Giveen the Evideo HIS EYES WeE on The Ball, One of the Relevant Aspects is the Propertion – when Implicit or Explicit – That He DIDNT Realise He Going to HIT HIT HIM In The Head,” Gleeson said.
“But Arguably Having His Arm Aroun His (Miers ‘) Back Gives Him a Pretty Good Idea of the Players’ head is.”
The hawks arguid screamshaw’s ACT Earlier This year was more Careless But Less Severe, and Thus The Three-WEEK BAN WAS FITING, and that Voss’ Incident Was Difference Because It Was An Attempted Tackle – and thus he was “Playing the Man Rather Than Playing The Ball”.
Reminding the Tribunal of his CLEAN Record in 140-dedd masses in an adopted sport, tehan said: “It does
The Severity of Nash’s Hit on Miers Saw Renewed Calls for the AFL TO INTRODUCE A Send-FF RULE.
DUE to his view, and with short Turnarounds Between Games, Mires Course Miss Cats Games Against Both Carloon and CollingWood if he did it pass through the protocols Quickly – Thought The Geelong Medical Report Predicted He would miss one game.
