Collingwood coach Craig McRae<\/h3>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve caught it on a phone. [I\u2019ve seen] one view of it, one angle of it \u2026 it looks like he\u2019s in the air. I hope Angus is OK. I\u2019ve met him a couple of times socially, he\u2019s a ripping guy. Hopefully, it\u2019s not too bad for him because he\u2019s had multiple concussions. My thoughts go out to him, I hope he\u2019s OK. The act itself, it didn\u2019t look like it had much malice. But I\u2019ll leave it up to others to decide if that\u2019s worthy of a suspension or not. I don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n
Melbourne coach Simon Goodwin<\/h3>\n
\u201c[The match review will] be sorted out during the week. We\u2019ve got a pretty shattered player in there. You can only go by the facts \u2013 he jumped off the ground and knocked a guy out. I guess time will tell. He\u2019s upset. He\u2019s obviously had a history with concussion, a long time ago. So, he\u2019s obviously dealing with some emotion there. But he wants to play finals footy, and he\u2019s going to be missing for a few weeks, and that\u2019s disappointing. I think he\u2019s OK [bone structurally], he\u2019s got a bit of a shiner, but he\u2019s all right.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Jack Viney clashes with Magpie Brayden Maynard as teammate Angus Brayshaw is taken off the field on a stretcher.<\/span>Credit: <\/span>AFL Photos<\/cite><\/p>\n \u201cI think that\u2019s the way it will land, and it\u2019s probably the way that it should land because then you can get Brayden up there [at the AFL tribunal], and he can argue his case of what was going through his mind at the time. For me, it\u2019s pretty clear-cut. He\u2019s left the ground before the kick was had, and he\u2019s had to turn. You can\u2019t disappear and unfortunately through the momentum of both players that was the outcome. You\u2019d expect that decision to be handed down of three-plus [matches], straight to the tribunal, and then it\u2019s up to Collingwood to try and get him off.\u201d (Courtesy SEN)<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s really hard for him to stop \u2026 he can\u2019t, it\u2019s a real tough one. What else can he do? He\u2019s heard the boos and probably realised Brayshaw is hurt, and we\u2019re thinking about him, but it\u2019s hard to know what else he can do there.\u201d (Courtesy of Seven<\/em>)<\/p>\n \u201cMaynard plays on the edge, but in my view, there is nothing in this. You have a duty of care to yourself to protect yourself as you come to land. Unfortunately in this game, there\u2019s contact that occurs. He\u2019s in the air for half a second \u2026 I know so much of what we\u2019ve done around the rules have been what the outcome is, but I see this differently because he\u2019s up for so long.\u201d (Courtesy of Seven)<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cWhen you\u2019re discussing this, you\u2019ve got to take your own team out of it and I know that\u2019s difficult to do because people are attached to Collingwood, and they\u2019re attached to Maynard, and they want to support him. You\u2019ve got to think of the greater issue. Head trauma is prevalent at the moment, it\u2019s a hot bed right now for the AFL. I\u2019m not convinced that [match review officer] Michael Christian has any other option but to send it to the tribunal. They will fight it and possibly get off, he may not get off, they may have to go to appeal, but I don\u2019t know if \u2018Chrisso\u2019 has many other options.\u201d (Courtesy SEN)<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s a genuine attempted smother. Once he\u2019s in the air, he can\u2019t disappear, he can\u2019t change position, and it didn\u2019t look like a massive hit per se. But, unfortunately, it looks like it\u2019s going to result in Brayshaw not taking any further part. We hope he\u2019s OK, but can you punish a player for jumping up in the air trying to spoil given what happened at the back-end of it?\u201d (Courtesy of Fox Footy)<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t know [about a suspension]. He actually has committed to smothering the ball. Brayshaw coming out of the front of the stoppage, he is running, he is heading straight towards Melbourne\u2019s goal, as he has put his head down to kick the footy, Maynard has come off the back of the square, has gone to jump and smother the ball in the air, but he is already committed. He has turned his body to brace for contact, but he has got Brayshaw in the face. It\u2019s not the old-fashioned, grand final, come off the back of the square and clean a guy up.\u201d<\/p>\n Keep up to date with the best AFL coverage in the country. <\/i><\/b>Sign up for the Real Footy newsletter<\/i><\/b>.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\nPort Adelaide premiership player and Age<\/em> columnist Kane Cornes<\/h3>\n
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