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Young Tiger Rhyan Mansell lashed for ‘double forearm’ when umpires were ‘powerless’Ben Waterworth
Fox Sports
May 7th, 2022 5:23 pmRichmond coach Damien Hardwick has backed in young Tiger Rhyan Mansell for his physicality, but insists he didn’t see the “double forearm” to the back of Pies antagonist Jack Ginnivan that had Pies players erupting on Saturday afternoon at the MCG.
Mansell could face Match Review Officer scrutiny for the action, which led to a scuffle at three-quarter time of Richmond’s 27-point win over Collingwood.
After Ginnivan snapped a goal towards the back-end of the third quarter, some Richmond players niggled him.
Then as Collingwood attempted to conjure a late third-term goal, Ginnivan tried to pick the ball up before Mansell fell into his back.
Replays then appeared to show Mansell using his forearm to the back of Ginnivan’s head twice: First when he initially landed on the Magpie then when both players were lying on the turf.
Several Collingwood players, including Brody Mihocek and Brayden Maynard, were clearly unhappy with the young Tiger’s treatment and ran straight to Mansell to remonstrate.
Speaking post-game, Hardwick bristled at any suggestion Ginnivan had been unduly targeted, insisting the physicality was part and parcel of Mansell’s game.
“Have you met Rhyan Mansell? Not at all (extra attention on Ginnivan),” he said.
“End of the day, I didn‘t notice it compared to any other player, but we want our small backs to be physical and like most other backs in the AFL they’d be doing exactly the same.”
Collingwood coach Craig McRae also said he didn’t see the incident, but was aware Ginnivan would come under more and more scrutiny from rival clubs as he continued to dominate headlines for his flair and purple patch in front of goal.
“I think anybody that‘s been in the competition for a long time realises that when you’re playing good footy someone wants to take that away from you. They’ll find a way to find a weakness,” he said.
“I think for Jack it’s just part of his growth, first and second year players get a bit more attention when you start to play well.”
Assessing the incident on Fox Footy, commentator Jason Dunstall labelled Mansell’s action “a double forearm to the back of the head.”
“He’ll cop a fine or a week for that – probably a fine because it was low impact. But maybe there could be an option to pay a free kick after the siren.”
St Kilda legend Nick Riewoldt said the umpires were left in an awkward position, because the incident came to light after the siren.
“We could hear the Collingwood players asking the umpires: ‘Why is that not a free kick?’ And the umpire said: ‘It’s after the siren, we wish we could pay a free kick but we can’t,’” Riewoldt said.
“Amazing scenes at three quarter-time. Clearly you would expect if it was in general play Mansell would’ve been done for two free kicks. But because it was after the siren, the umpires were powerless to do anything about it, other than potentially report the player.
“Mansell comes over the top with the one elbow, goes again a second time – which is pretty poor form.”
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