West Coast Eagles apologise for Jordan De Goey jibe after excessive bump
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West Coast has apologised for jabbing Jordan De Goey and attempting to affect the case relating to his excessive bump on Eagles teen Elijah Hewett.
West Coast’s social media crew made a weird and controversial transfer within the wake of De Goey’s excessive shot in Perth on Saturday, posting an image of the Collingwood famous person hitting Hewett and writing, “Straight to the tribunal”.
The Eagles copped backlash and apologised for the social media put up on Monday.
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“The membership needs to apologise for referencing the pending AFL tribunal look of Collingwood’s Jordan De Goey,” West Coast mentioned.
De Goey’s bump, which concussed Hewett, was graded careless conduct, extreme affect and excessive contact, that means the tribunal will resolve the midfielder’s destiny.
He’s going through a ban of at the least three video games and is ineligible for the Brownlow Medal, which he was within the combine for amid an excellent begin to the season.
As Nathan Buckley argued with Kane Cornes concerning the De Goey bump on SEN radio on Monday, the previous Collingwood coach whacked West Coast over the put up.
“Why are West Coast tweeting about Jordy De Goey going to the (tribunal)?” Buckley mentioned.
“It is none of their enterprise.”
The 2003 Brownlow Medallist additionally took purpose on the response of some individuals, together with Cornes, to the De Goey bump.
“It is careless, it is excessive, the end result was extreme, he’ll go to the tribunal, he’ll get three weeks and he’ll deserve his three weeks. I am not absolving him from that,” Buckley mentioned.
“However the hysteria round that is surrounding it…”
Cornes doubled down on his view that De Goey’s transfer was a “weak act”, which Buckley shot down.
“Yeah, nah, I do not agree with you in any respect,” he mentioned.
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