The Match Review Panel has assessed eight of the nine games of round 4 and have handed out fines and a one-match suspension this week.
Kangaroos skipper Jack Ziebell has avoid suspension after heavily colliding with Bulldogs forward Travis Cloke and breaking his ribs. The bump by Ziebell, which occurred on Friday night for the first Good Friday AFL match, found Cloke leaving the field with only minutes to spare in the final term. Once the game concluded, the former Collingwood premiership star was taken to hospital where scans confirmed that Cloke had broken ribs and would miss up to six weeks. Despite the injury sustained, the MRP ruled the incident as "reasonable in the circumstances". Ziebell's bump was deemed as "legal" due to the fact that the captain did not make high contact while trying to impact Cloke's kick. "Ziebell makes body contact to Cloke but there was no forceful high contact made to the Western Bulldogs' player," the Panel stated. Giants forward Toby Greene was offered a $1000 fine after striking Port Adelaide player Dan Houston on Saturday at UNSW Canberra Oval. Because Greene was not looking at Houston when his arm swung back and hit him, the incident was deemed as careless, with low impact to the head. West Coast forward Mark LeCras was also offered a $1000 fine after a high bump on Sydney defender Aliir Aliir during the Thursday night clash at Domain Stadium. The incident was graded as low impact to the head, which saw LeCras escaping a one-match suspension. Essendon half-back Conor McKenna, however, was unlucky after copping a one-match ban for a front-on bump on Adelaide's Riley Knight, on Saturday night. The incident was graded as medium impact and careless, with the suspension being ruled due to high contact.
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