{"id":74483,"date":"2021-05-22T08:56:35","date_gmt":"2021-05-22T08:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=74483"},"modified":"2021-05-22T13:00:34","modified_gmt":"2021-05-22T13:00:34","slug":"pickett-suspended-after-late-hit-on-young-lion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=74483","title":{"rendered":"Pickett suspended after late hit on young Lion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/richmond-tigers\" title=\"Richmond\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Richmond<\/a> midfielder <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/afl\/marlion-pickett\" title=\"Marlion Pickett\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Marlion Pickett<\/a> has been handed a one-match ban by the AFL&#x27;s Match Review Officer for his high hit on Brandon Starcevich in the loss to Brisbane.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred in the final quarter of <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/afl\/brisbane-lions-send-out-statement-in-win-over-richmond\/597a3278-ae25-4159-a152-b6f71c772311\" title=\"Brisbane&#x27;s 28-point win at the Gabba\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brisbane&#x27;s 28-point win at the Gabba<\/a> when a frustrated Pickett collected Starcevich high with a swinging arm after Starcevich had released a kick.<\/p>\n<p>Pickett&#x27;s hit on Starcevich was classified as &quot;careless conduct, medium impact and high contact&quot;, which gives the 29-year-old the option of accepting a one-match ban with an early plea.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"0acf7baa-3f4d-4199-b337-3105dd24db65\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/0acf7baa-3f4d-4199-b337-3105dd24db65\" alt=\"Brisbane Lions vs Richmond Tigers, Marlion Pickett\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The incident involving Pickett and Starcevich sparked a melee involving a number of players from both Richmond and Brisbane, with Dustin Martin also involved, however no players involved were cited by the MRO.<\/p>\n<p>It remains unclear whether Richmond will contest Pickett&#x27;s one-match ban, particularly with the midfield reinforcements on the horizon. <\/p>\n<p>Captain Trent Cotchin, young gun Shai Bolton and Dion Prestia could all be available for Richmond when it takes on Adelaide at the MCG in Round 11.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><\/strong><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/login?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true\" title=\"For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by clicking here!\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by clicking here!<\/strong><\/em><\/a><em><strong><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Richmond midfielder Marlion Pickett has been handed a one-match ban by the AFL&#x27;s Match Review Officer for his high hit on Brandon Starcevich in the <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=74483\" title=\"Pickett suspended after late hit on young Lion\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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\/74483"}],"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=74483"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74485,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74483\/revisions\/74485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}