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Tough Port Adelaide utility Byron Pickett will have the dubious honour of being the first player to front the new-look AFL tribunal.
Pickett was given no option of accepting a penalty and was sent to Tuesday night's hearing, while Carlton midfielder Scott Camporeale will accept his one-match striking ban.
Port will also announce on Tuesday morning whether Pickett's team-mate Brett Montgomery will take his one-match penalty, also for striking.
Hawthorn midfielder Sam Mitchell has the same decision to make.
The newly-created match review panel had a busy first session, going through video footage of reports and incidents after round one of the Wizard Cup.
"There's no such thing as a soft start - we've had four reports and three or four incidents being looked at....plenty on their plates straightaway," said AFL operations manager Adrian Anderson.
"I'm looking forward to it....we're ready to give it a role and long-term it's definitely going to be for the betterment of footy."
Pickett, last year's Norm Smith Medallist, will answer a charge of engaging in rough conduct against Adelaide's James Begley during last night's match at AAMI Stadium.
Mitchell was charged with striking St Kilda onballer Luke Ball and Camporeale was booked for striking Essendon defender Andrew Welsh.
All those charges were laid during the games, while Montgomery was charged on video evidence for striking Crow Brett Burton.
The three-man match review panel of chairman Peter Schwab, Andrew McKay and Peter Carey also cleared Saint Allan Murray of a rough conduct charge and also decided against taking action over three other incidents.
A Carlton spokesman confirmed that Camporeale would accept the one-match ban, rather than risk a two-game suspension if found guilty.
Apart from deciding whether charges should be laid, the match review panel also assesses the severity of each offence.
Pickett was sent straight to the tribunal because the panel decided his incident was worth 10 "activation points" - three for intentional conduct, four for severe impact, one point for being in play and two for high conduct.
Begley was bent over the ball when Pickett cannoned into the top half of his body.
Pickett has a one-match ban for striking, dating back to the 2002 season, and this will count against him in penalty if found guilty.
The three other cases were all judged to be worth six activation points.
Under the league's complex grading system, those three players would receive a two-match suspension if they went to the tribunal and were found guilty.
If Pickett is found guilty, the tribunal will have the discretion to decide his penalty.
St Kilda veteran Andrew Thompson said he was also looking forward to the new system.
"I wasn't overly confident about the outcomes in the tribunal in the past - in the future, if they can get a bit more consistency, that's a good thing," he said.
Pickett was given no option of accepting a penalty and was sent to Tuesday night's hearing, while Carlton midfielder Scott Camporeale will accept his one-match striking ban.
Port will also announce on Tuesday morning whether Pickett's team-mate Brett Montgomery will take his one-match penalty, also for striking.
Hawthorn midfielder Sam Mitchell has the same decision to make.
The newly-created match review panel had a busy first session, going through video footage of reports and incidents after round one of the Wizard Cup.
"There's no such thing as a soft start - we've had four reports and three or four incidents being looked at....plenty on their plates straightaway," said AFL operations manager Adrian Anderson.
"I'm looking forward to it....we're ready to give it a role and long-term it's definitely going to be for the betterment of footy."
Pickett, last year's Norm Smith Medallist, will answer a charge of engaging in rough conduct against Adelaide's James Begley during last night's match at AAMI Stadium.
Mitchell was charged with striking St Kilda onballer Luke Ball and Camporeale was booked for striking Essendon defender Andrew Welsh.
All those charges were laid during the games, while Montgomery was charged on video evidence for striking Crow Brett Burton.
The three-man match review panel of chairman Peter Schwab, Andrew McKay and Peter Carey also cleared Saint Allan Murray of a rough conduct charge and also decided against taking action over three other incidents.
A Carlton spokesman confirmed that Camporeale would accept the one-match ban, rather than risk a two-game suspension if found guilty.
Apart from deciding whether charges should be laid, the match review panel also assesses the severity of each offence.
Pickett was sent straight to the tribunal because the panel decided his incident was worth 10 "activation points" - three for intentional conduct, four for severe impact, one point for being in play and two for high conduct.
Begley was bent over the ball when Pickett cannoned into the top half of his body.
Pickett has a one-match ban for striking, dating back to the 2002 season, and this will count against him in penalty if found guilty.
The three other cases were all judged to be worth six activation points.
Under the league's complex grading system, those three players would receive a two-match suspension if they went to the tribunal and were found guilty.
If Pickett is found guilty, the tribunal will have the discretion to decide his penalty.
St Kilda veteran Andrew Thompson said he was also looking forward to the new system.
"I wasn't overly confident about the outcomes in the tribunal in the past - in the future, if they can get a bit more consistency, that's a good thing," he said.
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