‘Protecting the Brownlow’: AFL savaged as star freed after acts which ‘put people in wheelchairs’

Fox Footy’s David King has called for Laura Kane and the AFL to “review” the Match Review Officer’s decision not to suspend Port Adelaide star Zak Butters , as well as slamming the leniency afford to Adelaide’s Matt Crouch .

Watch every game of every round this Toyota AFL Premiership Season LIVE with no ad-breaks during play on Kayo. New to Kayo?An MRO-imposed ban would have rendered the Power onballer ineligible from winning the league’s best-and-fairest award, with the 23-year-old shaping as a strong candidate for this year’s honour.

While King took particular exception to the Butters incident, he was also incensed about the one-week sanction Crouch received. King voiced his concern that Butters was the beneficiary of favouritism because of his star status in the competition.“But because it’s Zak Butters and he’s in contention for all the major awards and he’s a star-factor player, we go in a different mode. We find ourselves making excuses: ‘oh, he got a hand on the ball’.

“You can’t tell me, at that speed, there is no potential for serious injury. That’s the grading, that’s the measure.”“We’re taking a stance on that,” King replied. “We’re actually taking a considered stance on taking out some percentages that are elevated for concussion and head trauma. We’re going to court to fight this exact case.

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