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CibbuanoJudd out for three games
September 8th 2009 09:23
CARLTON captain Chris Judd will miss the first three games of the 2010 season after failing to beat a misconduct charge at the AFL Tribunal on Tuesday night.
Judd would have only be sidelined for two matches if he had entered an early guilty plea for making unreasonable and unnecessary contact to the face of Brisbane's Michael Rischitelli during the second quarter of the second elimination final at the Gabba last Saturday night.
But the Blues elected to fight the charge on the grounds that Judd's actions were below the minimum level of low impact needed to justify a reportable offence.
However, the three-man jury of former players Richard Loveridge, Emmett Dunne and Wayne Henwood disagreed.
Judd is still eligible for the 2009 and 2010 Brownlow medals.
Judd would have only be sidelined for two matches if he had entered an early guilty plea for making unreasonable and unnecessary contact to the face of Brisbane's Michael Rischitelli during the second quarter of the second elimination final at the Gabba last Saturday night.
But the Blues elected to fight the charge on the grounds that Judd's actions were below the minimum level of low impact needed to justify a reportable offence.
However, the three-man jury of former players Richard Loveridge, Emmett Dunne and Wayne Henwood disagreed.
Judd is still eligible for the 2009 and 2010 Brownlow medals.
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