Hawthorn have decided against appealing the one-match sanctions handed to leaders Dylan Moore and James Sicily, in the wake of their respective gut punches against Port Adelaide on the weekend.
Early in his tenure with the AFL, veteran administrator Greg Swann placed the act firmly on the agenda, with Eagle Harry Schoenberg the first casualty of the crackdown.
Hawthorn evidently see the actions of their duo as bearing too much of a resemblance to those of Schoenberg, and with such a precedent set, an appeal would be futile.
The Club has accepted both these suspensions. Moore and Sicily will miss this Saturday's Round 7 clash against Gold Coast. https://t.co/24muN1LcWd
— Hawthorn FC (@HawthornFC) April 20, 2026
Meanwhile, their opponents this weekend, the Gold Coast Suns, are understood to be leaning towards an appeal of the one-match suspension handed to dashing flanker John Noble, who was cited for his bump on Bomber Tom Edwards.
The former Pie took Edwards over the boundary line in a fashion deemed illegal by the MRO, who graded the incident as careless conduct, high contact and medium impact - a combination that delineates a one-week suspension. The Suns will no doubt attempt to argue the severity of the impact, given Edwards was not concussed by the tackle. A downgrade to low impact would see the sanction become a fine, as opposed to a week on the pine.
Elsewhere, the GWS Giants have communicated their decision to appeal the one-match ban handed to utility Joe Fonti, after he was cited for rough conduct on Swans' star Isaac Heeney in the fourth quarter of the Sydney derby on Friday night.
Similarly to Noble, Fonti's indiscretion was deemed careless conduct, high contact and medium impact.
