GWS' Toby Greene could have easily been sanctioned for two separate incidents during Friday's win over Sydney at ENGIE Stadium.
Greene has already been suspended for one match for his forearm to the head of Swans star Isaac Heeney, which the club accepted.
However, behind-the-scenes footage revealed the Giants' skipper swinging his leg backwards towards Sydney veteran Dane Rampe, directed towards his groin.
Freshly minted AFL EGM of Football Performance Greg Swann was prompted by the action, but said it wouldn't result in any penalty, despite it being reviewed by the Match Review Office (MRO).
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"It has been (reviewed). ‘Chrisso' did have a look at it," Swann said on SEN Breakfast.
"We won't be taking any action on it, only on the basis that he actually doesn't connect. Whether we think that's a thing we want in the game is a separate thing, which obviously we don't.
"But under the table and things that we've got now - and that's part of the thing I want to have a look at as well, is the MRO. At the moment, the MRO can only, from a penalty perspective, go upwards. It can't come down. So it's zero (weeks) or three.
"Some of these incidents that should get a one or a two (week ban)… You understand that you put the table together to provide consistency, but there's always outliers in footy. Sometimes they don't fit in those boxes, and that's difficult, so we'll have a look at some of those things.
"This is probably one of those. It was a weird action for sure, but if you look at Rampe, he misses him really because he doesn't react, and they just play on."
Swann admitted that it was a "horrible look", but the fact that Greene's "strike" didn't connect, he and the Giants, at this stage, under the current rules, would "win on appeal".
"But under the table at the moment you can't (suspend him) and he'd win on appeal," Swann added.
"I think there's been a lot of those things, and it is about the look of the game. Sometimes there's almost a catch-all - he doesn't get him, and there's no strike under the existing rules.
"But we don't want that in the game.”"
