{"id":495093,"date":"2026-03-12T09:39:55","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T10:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=495093"},"modified":"2026-03-12T22:25:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T22:25:13","slug":"rib-tickler-on-weitering-has-tigers-youngster-facing-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=495093","title":{"rendered":"'Rib tickler' on Weitering has Tigers youngster facing ban"},"content":{"rendered":"

R\ufeffichmond<\/a> youngster Jonty Faull faces a one-match ban for an unnecessary act after an off-the-ball shot on Jacob Weitering<\/a> during Carlton's 10.15 (75) – 9.17 (71) win.<\/p>\n

Midway through the second quarter \ufeffbetween the Blues<\/a> and Tigers, Weitering was giving Faull a mild shepherd before he copped a shot to the stomach.<\/p>\n

With the incident coming off the ball, play continued on but it was still picked up by the TV cameras.\ufeff<\/p>\n

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"That might be a little rib tickler there, and th\ufeffat's been given a week this year already," Jack Riewoldt said on Fox Footy.<\/p>\n

"(AFL football general manager) Greg Swann was adamant that was going to be a suspension at the start of the season."<\/p>\n

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Caller Mark Howard said "you can't whack blokes in the gut", to which David King agreed and said it should be a week ban.\ufeff<\/p>\n

After a controversial week following former captain Sam Docherty's passionate criticism of the side's performance in Opening Round<\/a>\ufeff, the Blues were out of the gates quickly with the first three goals.<\/p>\n

By the end of the quarter, the Blues led 6.4 (40) to 3.3 (21).<\/p>\n

\"Williams<\/p>\n

By half-time it was more of the same for Carlton, leading 9.9 (63) to 5.6 (36). \ufeff<\/p>\n

The Tigers came out strong from the major break and pushed the Blues to the end but ultimately it was an under-pressure Michael Voss pumping his fists at a relieving victory.\ufeff<\/p>\n

Harry McKay and Mitch McGovern kicekd two goals each for the Blues \ufeffwhile Jagga Smith and Patrick Cripps topped the disposal count on 32.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

R\ufeffichmond youngster Jonty Faull faces a one-match ban for an unnecessary act after an off-the-ball shot on Jacob Weitering during Carlton's 10.15 (75) – 9.17 […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":495097,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495093"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=495093"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":495100,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495093\/revisions\/495100"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/495097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=495093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=495093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=495093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}