Fremantle star Nathan Fyfe will serve a two-game ban after failing to convince the AFL Tribunal that his kick to the body of Richmond’s Daniel Jackson was not deliberate.

Fyfe would have received only a reprimand had the case been successful, but instead will miss Saturday night’s clash with Gold Coast and the following round’s match against Collingwood.

He would have missed only the Suns clash had he pleaded guilty to the original charge.

The midfielder admitted to kicking Jackson, while he was lying on his back with the Tiger crouched above him at Patersons Stadium last Friday night.

But Fyfe said it was a reckless, rather than intentional act.

He said his only aim had been to get away from Jackson and get to the ball.

And he said he had not even realised he had kicked him until Monday afternoon, when he received a phone call from a Dockers official telling him he had been cited by the match review panel.

Fyfe said he prided himself on his clean record and was offended and disappointed by the accusation he deliberately kicked an opponent.

Tribunal counsel Andrew Tinney SC argued that Fyfe was looking at Jackson before he kicked him and would have known exactly what he was doing.

And he said it “defies belief” that Fyfe wouldn’t have known he had kicked Jackson until told about it three days later.

West Coast captain Darren Glass was to contest a rough conduct charge later on Tuesday night.

The Eagles key defender could have accepted a two-match suspension with an early guilty plea but will instead risk a three-game ban.

Earlier, Western Bulldog Brett Goodes accepted a two-match rough conduct ban for the bump which concussed Geelong’s Josh Caddy.

Bulldogs captain Matthew Boyd accepted a reprimand, as did Brisbane’s James Polkinghorne and Billy Longer and North Melbourne’s Jamie Macmillan, while 10 other players accepted fines for various offences.