Greater Western Sydney spearhead Jesse Hogan is free to take on Brisbane Lions after the Giants overturned his suspension at the tribunal on Tuesday night.
The tribunal panel of chair Jeff Gleeson and former players Scott Stevens and Darren Gaspar found Hogan had made contact with Lewis Young’s face, but the impact was only negligible and of insufficient force to constitute a report. The potential to cause injury cannot result in negligible impact being upgraded.Hogan was banned by the match review officer, who graded an incident with Carlton defender Lewis Young as intentional conduct, low-impact and high contact.
But the tribunal panel dismissed the charge, saying there was not enough force from Hogan to grade it as low impact. “Hogan gave impressively candid evidence, including acknowledging he did swing with force to try and push Young,” tribunal chair Jeff Gleeson said.Hogan admitted he and Young engaged in “some words” and felt he was a “bit harshly treated”.
“We got into some push-and-shove, and it ricocheted off his arm and initially thought I scraped his nose,” he told the tribunal.
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