Richmond ahead Tom Lynch is going through a prolonged suspension after being referred on to the AFL Tribunal for his strike on Adelaide’s Jordon Butts.
Lynch’s second-quarter blow to Butts’s head was graded as intentional conduct with extreme impression and excessive contact by the AFL’s Match Evaluate Officer, Michael Christian.
An early plea shouldn’t be obtainable to the 32-year-old, who will face the Tribunal on Tuesday night time.
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Lynch was additionally handed a pair of fines for 2 separate incidents that happened in Richmond’s 68-point loss to Adelaide on the MCG on Sunday.
He was provided $3,125 for partaking in a melee/wrestle and $1,500 for putting. The fines will be diminished to $1,875 and $1,000, respectively, if Lynch takes an early plea.
Lynch has beforehand denied strategies he’s overzealous along with his on-field aggression, attributable to solely being suspended for a complete of two weeks since making his debut in 2011.
That complete is now more likely to be doubled on the very least.
Regardless of his lack of earlier suspensions, Lynch has toed the road on quite a few events all through his profession and is not any stranger to a Tribunal listening to.
Lynch confronted the Tribunal earlier this season in a bid to have a one-match suspension overturned for a excessive hit on Carlton’s Tom De Koning, however was unsuccessful.
He was despatched on to the Tribunal in 2023 after a collision with then-Bulldogs defender Alex Keath, an incident that left Keath concussed, however had the tough conduct cost dismissed.
The Tribunal additionally cleared Lynch of putting Essendon’s Michael Hurley throughout a match in 2020.
Richmond coach Adem Yze revealed Lynch apologised to his teammates after gifting away 5 free kicks within the first half of the loss to the Crows, and Lynch admitted he was pissed off by the quantity of contact Adelaide’s defenders had gotten away with.
“I used to be simply extra pissed off with how he was defending me, I believed,” Lynch advised Channel 7.
“Clearly it [Butts’s actions] was inside the guidelines as a result of there have been no free kicks awarded to me and I went outdoors the foundations.
“I’ve acquired to be higher.”
