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Crows to appeal lengthy Marinoff suspension

2021-01-20T15:20+11:00

UPDATED: Adelaide has made the decision to appeal Ebony Marinoff’s three-game suspension.

The Crows had the deadline to make their call extended by two hours as they worked out the best way to attack the ban on Wednesday afternoon.

They will now take the case to the AFL Appeals Board.

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Adelaide midfielder Ebony Marinoff has been suspended for three weeks by the AFL Tribunal for careless conduct after colliding with GWS recruit Brid Stack during the club’s first practice match.

Stack was taken to hospital following the hit with fears she had suffered a serious neck or spinal injury, but the Irish import is expected to make a full recovery.

MRO Michael Christian deemed the incident careless conduct, severe impact and high contact, which saw it directly referred to the AFL Tribunal.

The ban, which sees the inaugural AFLW Rising Star suspended for a third of the upcoming season, has been widely criticised by sportspeople and fans.

Adelaide is currently in meetings determining whether they will appeal the ban.

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The reaction following the verdict was universally negative, with many pointing out that Marinoff’s action did not warrant such a severe ban.

Multiple key AFLW figures have privately expressed their frustration, feeling the Crows midfielder was made an example of by the AFL.

Former North Melbourne star Nick Dal Santo believes it’s another example of the AFL suspending a player because of the injury caused.

“From what I saw, she’s been given three weeks off the severity of the injury, not by the actual incident and what occurred,” Dal Santo told SEN Breakfast.

“Take the injury out of it, I don’t think there was a great deal in it. From everything I’d heard the day before and I was waiting to see the footage, it was nothing like I thought it would be.

“I thought three weeks was severe. Let’s put it this way. If Brid had have got straight up, it wouldn’t have even got a week.

“It didn’t seem that aggressive, it was within the parameters of a stoppage. It wasn’t what I was picturing when hearing about the possibility of the injury.

“Three weeks in a nine-week season, that’s severe for me. That’s the equivalent of seven weeks in the men’s season. It’s a lot.”

SEN Mornings host Julian De Stoop agreed that the ban was harsh.

“If you have a look at the incident, and obviously there was a terrible injury caused, it looked more like an accident than anything wrong that Ebony did. Accidents do happen in footy,” De Stoop told SEN Mornings.

Social media, and multiple AFL greats, were equally confused about the Tribunal’s verdict.

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