Nat Fyfe to fight AFL striking charge

Fremantle midfielder Nat Fyfe will join North Melbourne’s Brent Harvey at the AFL tribunal on Tuesday night to challenge a striking charge.

Fyfe was charged with a level-three striking offence for his hit on Hawthorn’s Jordan Lewis during the first quarter of Sunday’s game in Perth.

He was offered a two-match suspension with an early guilty plea by the AFL’s match-review panel, but the club has decided to challenge the ban.

If unsuccessful, the star onballer will still only miss two matches.

The outlook isn’t so bright for veteran Harvey, who could be facing several weeks on the sidelines after pinning Liam Picken to the ground with a forearm to the throat.

The second-quarter incident in Sunday’s win over the Western Bulldogs at Etihad Stadium was referred directly to a tribunal hearing.

Meanwhile North Melbourne’s Daniel Wells has accepted a combined one-match ban for striking and rough-conduct charges at the weekends, but will be heaped with 96.85 carry-over points.

Western Bulldogs’ Jordan Roughead and Mark Austin, and North’s Lindsay Thomas and Aaron Black, have also accepted fines for engaging in melees, as have Brisbane’s Pearce Hanley and Geelong’s Mathew Stokes for making negligent contact with an umpire.

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