Richmond star Tom Lynch despatched on to AFL Tribunal after strike on Jordon Butts

Richmond ahead Tom Lynch is dealing with a prolonged suspension after being referred on to the AFL Tribunal for his strike on Adelaide’s Jordon Butts.

Lynch’s second-quarter blow to Butts’s head was graded as intentional conduct with extreme influence and excessive contact by the AFL’s Match Evaluate Officer, Michael Christian.

An early plea isn’t obtainable to the 32-year-old, who will face the Tribunal on Tuesday night time.

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Lynch was additionally handed a pair of fines for 2 separate incidents that occurred in Richmond’s 68-point loss to Adelaide on the MCG on Sunday.

He was supplied $3,125 for partaking in a melee/wrestle and $1,500 for placing. The fines might be lowered to $1,875 and $1,000, respectively, if Lynch takes an early plea.

Lynch has beforehand denied strategies he’s overzealous along with his on-field aggression, as a result of solely being suspended for a complete of two weeks since making his debut in 2011.

That whole is now prone to be doubled on the very least.

Regardless of his lack of earlier suspensions, Lynch has toed the road on quite a few events all through his profession and isn’t any stranger to a Tribunal listening to.

Lynch confronted the Tribunal earlier this season in a bid to have a one-match suspension overturned for a excessive hit on Carlton’s Tom De Koning, however was unsuccessful.

He was despatched on to the Tribunal in 2023 after a collision with then-Bulldogs defender Alex Keath, an incident that left Keath concussed, however had the tough conduct cost dismissed.

The Tribunal additionally cleared Lynch of placing Essendon’s Michael Hurley throughout a match in 2020.

Richmond coach Adem Yze revealed Lynch apologised to his teammates after giving freely 5 free kicks within the first half of the loss to the Crows, and Lynch admitted he was annoyed by the quantity of contact Adelaide’s defenders had gotten away with.

“I used to be simply extra annoyed with how he was defending me, I believed,” Lynch advised Channel 7.

“Clearly it [Butts’s actions] was throughout the guidelines as a result of there have been no free kicks awarded to me and I went outdoors the principles.

“I’ve obtained to be higher.”