Not being suspended before is now a ticket to allow dangerous things to be done.
Green light.
It's not even what the Lions went in arguing for. The tribunal just took the accessory information to them trying to change the impact grading from medium to low - which they didn't agree with - and ran with it themselves to let him off.
Bizarre and incredible! Or incredulous! Take your pick
And I'm sure there must be a "Free Kick: Carlton" in there somewhere too.
For context, from Andrew Dillon:
Dillon, speaking on AFL.com.au's State of the Game, said the League had viewed the one-game suspension as appropriate for the action.
"First of all, he wasn't cleared. He pled guilty to the offence and was found guilty of the offence. What the Tribunal did was use a discretion they have in exceptional and compelling circumstances to make a call that's outside the Tribunal framework and they did that," Dillon said.
"There were, from the Tribunal chair, there were a number of compelling circumstances and they were first of all that he pled guilty, second of all the number of games he's played without suspension, thirdly that the player didn't suffer an injury and the fourth one was that it was at the lower end of careless.
