Carlton will not appeal Chris Judd’s four-week suspension for his chicken-wing tackle despite a furious outburst from the Blues star’s manager blaming AFL interference for the ban.

The AFL tribunal belted Judd with the hefty suspension on Tuesday night for lifting and twisting the arm of North Melbourne forward Leigh Adams while the Kangaroos player was pinned face-down in a tackle.

Adams needed treatment for a popped shoulder after the incident.

Judd’s manager Paul Connors slammed the verdict on Wednesday, blaming AFL interference and pre-tribunal comments from match review panel chairman Mark Fraser for the star’s lengthy ban.

“I just find it outrageous, the vitriol about Chris,” Connors told Melbourne radio station SEN.

“You’ve got the head of the match review panel making comments about the case before it’s even heard.

“I just can’t remember that happening before, where Mark Fraser goes on afl.com talking about it.

“Then you’ve got the head of football Adrian Anderson – if he hasn’t been speaking to Fraser and telling the world why this had to go direct to the tribunal, I’ll go ‘he’.

“It’s just another case of AFL interference for mine.”

Connors said he believed it had been impossible for Judd to get a fair hearing in the circumstances.

After meeting on Wednesday morning, Blues football manager Andrew McKay and chief executive Greg Swann decided not to take the matter to the AFL appeals board.

But Carlton coach Brett Ratten launched a strenuous defence of Judd’s character and blamed “bad technique” for the look of the tackle.

“I’ve worked with Chris for five years … and his character and what he does as a leader, he’s in the best people I’ve seen play the game and the spirit that they play the game too,” Ratten said.

“I can tell you Chris wasn’t there to harm him (Adams).

“Anyway, he’s been done, he’s got four weeks. But if you talk about character and what people bring to the game, he’s one of the finest I’ve seen.

“I can vouch for Chris every day of the week.”