The Port Adelaide star's season and potentially his career at the club is over after the tribunal handed down its verdict on the bump, which left his opponent concussed.
Port Adelaide's Dan Houston faces the prospect of a lengthy suspension ahead of his Tribunal hearing for this bump on Adelaide's Izak Rankine .
After apologising to Rankine ahead of his tribunal hearing, Houston issued another formal apology to the 24-year-old Adelaide star in a statement at the tribunal."I remember the ball coming in my direction after Keane's double-fisted spoil. My first thought was to get the ball myself."I recall seeing Rankine when I was within a meter or so of him. I don't remember making the decision to bump. It is clear from the film that I did make that decision.
The suspension is the first of Houston's 168-game career in the AFL, a fact Port Adelaide raised to the Tribunal as a part of its case.
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