Alastair Clarkson’s suggestion to speed up the AFL tribunal process has a lot more support around North Melbourne this weekend.

Kangaroos veteran Brent Harvey is in the midst of a nervous couple of days after he clashed with Geelong captain Joel Selwood during the second term of Friday night’s semi-final.

The incident left Selwood with a cut above his right eye and he was seen talking angrily with the emergency umpire as he left the MCG for treatment.

But Selwood refused to talk about the incident post-match.

Monday’s match review panel could well decide it was nothing more than an accidental clash of heads and clear Harvey for the Friday night preliminary final against Sydney.

But Harvey’s poor record – he returned from a three-match suspension on Friday night – means he faces a near-certain ban if charged.

Hawthorn defender Brian Lake was also in the media spotlight throughout a July weekend after he had a brain snap and clashed angrily during a Friday night match with Kangaroos key forward Drew Petrie.

That prompted Lake’s coach Clarkson to suggest the panel should be able to meet during the weekend to rule on such high-profile incidents and shorten the period of trial-by-media.

“Everyone would like the decision to be expedited, but we always talk about that boring cliche – controlling the controllables,” North coach Brad Scott told SEN.

“Nothing we can do about it, so we just have to get on with business and wait until their verdict.”

Harvey and his teammates were in good spirits at bayside Albert Park on Saturday morning as they had a post-win recovery session.

Midfielder Nick Dal Santo said he had not seen the Harvey-Selwood incident and added that North would deal with whatever happens.

“I didn’t notice him too flat today,” Dal Santo said.

“He loves this time of year. I was speaking about the disappointment a few weeks ago of him missing some weeks and the opportunity to play finals, because at his age and the reason you play football is to play finals, but even more so for him.

“We’ll see. We can’t do much about it at this stage but we’ll deal with whatever comes out throughout the week.”

The upside of Harvey’s suspension is that North showed they can win without him, first confirming their top-eight berth and then beating Essendon in an elimination final.

“We don’t want to have to play without him by choice, it would be nice if he was there,” Dal Santo noted.

“I thought he was fantastic last night.

“Fingers crossed it all goes well and we don’t have to worry about it.”