Carlton has successfully downgraded defender Jordan Boyd’s one-match ban at the AFL Tribunal.
In a marathon four-hour hearing, the AFL claimed the Blues were “victim-blaming” as they spent their entire appeal arguing Richmond’s Rhyan Mansell had ducked his head and played for a free kick.
Richmond great Jack Riewoldt sarcastically asked in response to Fox Footy’s coverage of the case: “when is the finding on how many weeks Mansell is getting expected to be handed down? He’s the one facing the tribunal right?”
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But while the Tribunal agreed Boyd had elected to bump – disagreeing with the thrust of Carlton’s case against Mansell – they felt Boyd slowed down enough to reduce the impact from medium to low, resulting in a…
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