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'Cynical' Freo coach bemoans how long AFL took with Neale reprieve
Justin Longmuir (left) and Chris Fagan speak to media after the AFL grand final parade in Melbourne. (Getty Images: Quinn Rooney)
Fremantle coach Justin Longmuir said he believes the outcome of the Lachie Neale case should have come earlier.
Neale was handed a reprieve from a one-match ban to allow him to play in Saturday's AFL grand final.
Neale and the Brisbane Lions will look to claim their third premiership in a row when they take on the Dockers.
Brisbane coach Chris Fagan doubted Lachie Neale would be cleared for the AFL grand final, as his "cynical" Fremantle counterpart Justin Longmuir took umbrage with the lengthy process.
Appeals board stunner: Neale free to play in the grand final, cops fine instead
Lachie Neale is free to play in the grand final after the AFL appeals board sensationally handed him a fine, overturning a one-match suspension on Thursday night.
The board of chairman Richard Loveridge and members Wayne Henwood and Stephen Jurica found that the AFL tribunal should have used the exemplary and compelling circumstances exception to reduce Neale’s one-game ban for gut-punching Jack Ginnivan.
They instead gave him a $10,000 fine after the AFL was denied the opportunity to introduce new evidence in the hearing – vision taken during a trial of an optical data tracking trial by Champion Data.
Loveridge said the board only wanted to consider the evidence that the tribunal originally considered.
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