Brisbane Lions star Charlie Cameron and GWS tagger Toby Bedford have sensationally had their respective three-match suspensions for rough conduct overturned on appeal.
In separate Appeal Board hearings on Thursday night, both players successfully argued the league's Tribunal had made an error of law when upholding their bans two days earlier.by focusing on the tribunal guidelines before determining whether the player had actually committed a reportable offence when tackling Duggan.
"There'll be circumstances where players will suffer injury despite players exercising reasonable care. To find that Cameron did not exercise reasonable care was simply not open on the evidence."Both grounds for appeal were disputed by AFL lawyer Lisa Hannon, but the appeals board agreed with the Lions.
"Absent that consideration … we consider that the tribunal did fall into an error of law that had a material impact on its decision."Later in the evening, GWS argued Bedford's tackle which left Richmond's Tim Taranto concussed was not "careless conduct" under the Tribunal guidelines. "We accept that the Tribunal found unreasonable conduct, however, it made no finding about whether or not the conduct of player Bedford was likely to cause injury," Houghton said.Earlier on Thursday, Brisbane coach Chris Fagan described this week's tackle controversy as a "shock wave" for the competition and defiantly declared he would not be telling his players to change their technique for the time being.
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