Patrick Dangerfield banned by AFL Tribunal for three games

Geelong star Patrick Dangerfield will miss three AFL games for his hit that left Adelaide’s Jake Kelly with a concussion and a broken nose.

The 2016 Brownlow medallist was cited for his bump on Kelly last weekend.

Dangerfield’s legal team pleaded guilty to rough conduct but challenged the grading of the impact, wanting it downgraded from “severe” to “high”.

Part of the defence from Dangerfield’s team was reading out definitions of the word “severe”, including the Oxford and Macquarie dictionaries, and asking Siri for a definition.

The jury only needed 18 minutes to come to the conclusion that the Match Review Officer’s initial grading for the level of the impact was correct.

Dangerfield’s legal team tried to draw a distinction between…