AFL name new MRP members

Newly-retired AFL stars Brad Sewell and Luke Ball are among four new members of the match review panel.

St Kilda great Nathan Burke and Collingwood premiership player Michael Christian are also on the panel.

There will be no chairman under the revamped tribunal system, with three panel members meeting each week and deciding each charge on a 2-1 or 3-0 ruling.

Previous chairman Mark Fraser resigned last December.

Sewell ended his AFL career after missing out on Hawthorn’s second-successive premiership, while Ball hung up the boots at Collingwood during last season.

Ball, who started his career at St Kilda, was a member of Collingwood’s 2010 premiership team and Sewell played in the Hawks’ 2008 and ’13 flag-winning sides.

“Our MRP members boast four premierships and nearly 900 games of AFL experience between them,” said AFL operations manager Mark Evans.

“The panel mixes recently retired players in Luke and Brad, who have strong experience of the modern game, alongside Michael and Nathan who each have more than three decades of experience at the highest level to call upon for their decision-making.”

Ex-players Daniel Harford and Shane Wakelin will also join the panel of tribunal jury members.

The new-look MRP follows an overhaul of the tribunal system, announced last November.

It is the biggest set of changes to the tribunal since the match review panel was introduced in 2005.

Under the changes, all offences will now be categorised as fines or weeks of suspension, with no base demerit points or carryover points.

Brownlow Medal eligibility will now depend entirely on whether a player was suspended during the season.

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