Port Adelaide don’t believe the match review panel’s verdict on champion midfielder Robbie Gray should set an AFL precedent.
Gray will learn later Monday whether he faces sanction after delivering a bump which stunned West Coast’s Jeremy McGovern in Sunday’s pre-season game.
Gray’s right shoulder made contact with McGovern’s head as the pair contested a loose ball.
McGovern went to the bench and did not return with the incident to be the first real test case for the AFL’s newly-appointed match review officer Michael Christian.
Port assistant coach Michael Voss says Christian shouldn’t be looking to set a league-wide precedent when determining the Gray incident.
“You treat every incident as it is,” Voss told reporters at Adelaide Airport on Monday.
“And they’re trying to get every one right, they’re not trying to set precedents or anything, I don’t think that is the case,”
“We have got a new system and we’re all waiting to see what that looks like.”
Voss said the Power were uncertain what the outcome would be for Gray, a triple All Australian and three-time club champion.
“That is left up to the MRP, the one thing that has changed, the way that it’s processed and the way that it’s interpreted now, it’s a new system,” he said.
“So I think we all sort of sit back and wait for that new system to be rolled out and one person is making the adjudication.
“But it was a pretty close contest, it was one of those 50-50 balls, so it will interesting to see which way it swings.”