Fremantle skipper Nat Fyfe is out of the running to win the Brownlow Medal after he failed to have his striking charge downgraded at the AFL tribunal.

AFL match review officer Michael Christian assessed Fyfe’s crude forearm to the head of Collingwood’s Levi Greenwood as intentional conduct with low impact to the head.

Fyfe entered a guilty plea to careless conduct, but the jury upheld his one-match ban after a lengthy 23 minutes of deliberation.