{"id":28270,"date":"2018-05-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/nic-nat-ban-was-a-no-brainer-says-michael-christian\/"},"modified":"2018-05-09T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-09T00:00:00","slug":"nic-nat-ban-was-a-no-brainer-says-michael-christian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/nic-nat-ban-was-a-no-brainer-says-michael-christian\/","title":{"rendered":"Nic Nat Ban Was A No Brainer, Says Michael Christian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AFL Match Review Officer <strong>Michael Christian<\/strong> says handing a one-game ban to <strong>Nic Naitanui<\/strong> for his tackle on <strong>Karl Amon <\/strong>was an easy call.<\/p>\n<blockquote><h3>\u201cI wanted him to turn\u2026 instead of pushing someone in the middle of the back, you turn with the tackle and not drive him,\u201d Christian told FIVEAA.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cTackling for me is the most challenging aspect\u2026 but this one for me was the easiest one I\u2019ve had\u2026 the guidelines are really specific.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cIf tackles are unreasonable in the circumstance then there could be a resulting charge\u2026 in this particular case the apt point is: where an opponent is driven into the ground with excessive force whilst in a vulnerable position.&#8221;<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>WATCH:<\/p>\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2F1395FIVEAA%2Fvideos%2F10155807490879633%2F&#038;show_text=0&#038;width=560\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" allowFullScreen=\"true\"><\/iframe>&#13;\n&#13;\n<blockquote>&#13;\n\t<h3>\u201cI concluded, in consultation with Steve Hocking, that I can\u2019t come up with any other way to describe that tackle. Nic drove Karl into the ground with excessive force whilst he was in a vulnerable position\u2026 the action is not something we want to see in the game.<\/h3>&#13;\n&#13;\n\t<h3>\u201cAs a consequence the conduct was graded as careless. Once that was determined then it\u2019s a question of impact. The medical report put forward by Port Adelaide was consistent with our grading of medium, which comes out at a week.<\/h3>&#13;\n&#13;\n\t<h3>\u201cThere\u2019s been a number dangerous tackles that have been graded that way &#8212; all careless &#8212; through the year but the impact hasn\u2019t been such that it\u2019s got medium. A lot of the time it\u2019s been graded as low.\u201d<\/h3>&#13;\n<\/blockquote>&#13;\n&#13;\n<p>West Coast is scheduled to challenge the ban at the AFL tribunal on Wednesday night.<\/p>&#13;\n&#13;\n<p>LISTEN:<\/p>&#13;\n&#13;\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/441015870&#038;color=%23ff5500&#038;auto_play=false&#038;hide_related=false&#038;show_comments=true&#038;show_user=true&#038;show_reposts=false&#038;show_teaser=true\"><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFL Match Review Officer Michael Christian says handing a one-game ban to Nic Naitanui for his tackle on Karl Amon was an easy call. \u201cI wanted him to turn\u2026 instead of pushing someone in the middle of the back, you turn with the tackle and not drive him,\u201d Christian told FIVEAA. \u201cTackling for me is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":5778,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247,231],"tags":[246,248],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-28270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fiveaa-sports-show","category-show","tag-fiveaa-app","tag-sport"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - 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