AFL 2023 round 9 LIVE updates: Richmond Tigers, Geelong Cats chase key win at MCG
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- ‘He should have got more’, but Prestia not holding a grudge over Stewart hit
- Tasmania MPs quit, but McLachlan adamant 19th team will go ahead
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‘He should have got more’, but Prestia not holding a grudge over Stewart hit
Dion Prestia doesn’t hold a grudge against Tom Stewart for knocking him out last year. And he doesn’t want the Cats player booed on Friday night, but he does think Stewart got off lightly at the tribunal.
“I know that’s not in his demeanour at all [but] honestly, I thought he should have got more,” Prestia said of the four-game ban Stewart got for running past the ball, shirt-fronting Prestia and leaving him knocked out and concussed.
Dion Prestia will play his 200th game on Friday night.Credit: Eddie Jim
“I look at different incidents that happen throughout the season and think he should have got more, but it is what it is.
“I appreciate he [Stewart] reached out to me and Joel Selwood as well reached out at the time. I know it was something he definitely didn’t go out and try to do during the game, it was a brain fade.”
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Tasmania MPs quit, but McLachlan adamant 19th team will go ahead
AFL chief executive Gillon McLachlan has insisted the new Tasmanian AFL team complete with a multimillion-dollar stadium will go ahead, despite two Tasmanian Liberal MPs quitting the government over the project.
A week after Tasmanian Premier Jeremy Rockliff and McLachlan confirmed a binding agreement that a new 19th club will be formed in time for the 2028 men’s season, the state was plunged into a minority government after Bass member Lara Alexander and Lyons member John Tucker resigned on Friday.
They will now sit as independents, partially over concerns about the $715 million Macquarie Point Stadium amid a housing crisis on the island, with Alexander also taking issue over the transparency of government decision-making.
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Good evening
G’day everyone. I’m Roy Ward and I’ll be tapping the keys for our AFL live blog for Geelong and Richmond at the MCG tonight.
We will have all the major moments and post-game reactions along with a little bit of coverage from the later game between West Coast and Gold Coast in Perth to finish off the night.
Please feel free to leave a comment on the blog at any time and enjoy the hours to come.
The Richmond game begins at 7.20pm AEST and the West Coast game begins at 8.40pm AEST.
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