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📻 IMPORTANT AUCKLAND UPDATE 📻
Lynch to “pay a huge price” for Butts brain fade
Andrew Slevison • June 30th, 2025 9:58 am
Richmond’s Tom Lynch is facing a lengthy ban for his brain fade against Adelaide on Sunday.
The Tigers veteran lashed out with a haymaker strike to the head of Crows defender Jordon Butts during the second quarter at the MCG.
Lynch had reached his boiling point and reacted angrily, creating a scene we don’t often see in the modern game.
The strike will be graded as intentional conduct and high contact with the discussion then to centre around the impact.
It is believed that at the very least it will be a two-week suspension from MRO Michael Christian, or three weeks minimum if sent directly to the Tribunal.
But David King is calling for a lengthier stint on the sidelines given the potential to do serious damage.
“It’s no good,” King said on SEN’s Fireball.
“He’ll pay the price for that and so he should. It should be five weeks.
“No one is stronger on this stuff than me. There’s nothing wrong with being overly physical. But he’ll pay a huge price for yesterday, I’m saying five weeks.”
Co-host Kane Cornes can see the incident being sent straight to the Tribunal to work out the length of suspension.
He couldn’t believe what he was seeing from the Tigers player, especially what teammate Noah Balta went through with his assault case earlier in the year.
“The matrix doesn’t say that it will be (five weeks),” Cornes said.
“I think you send it to the Tribunal and you work out what was going on. He’s just so lucky that he didn’t make contact properly.
“The other thing is the Noah Balta discussion. I think it’s impossible not to link the two with what that footy club has been through off-field.
“To do that after the situation they’ve been in is just mind-blowing to me for Tom to go down that path.”
