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Geelong’s Tom Hawkins gets out of jail at AFL Tribunal – Wide World of Sports
‘High contact is not limited to contact to the head’
Geelong star Tom Hawkins is free to play against West Coast on Saturday after escaping with a slap on the wrists at the AFL Tribunal.
The Cats were successful in their bid to have Hawkins’ charge for striking Fremantle’s Luke Ryan with a stray elbow downgraded to body contact (as opposed to high contact) leaving the forward with a $1000 fine but free to play.
The tribunal were convinced and eventually ruled that contact from Hawkins was made primarily to Ryan’s collarbone and that “any contact…
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