The Pendlebury Precedent: A Test of Consistency in the AFL Tribunal The Brisbane Lions' Lachie Neale faces the AFL tribunal on Tuesday evening to contest a one match ban for striking Hawthorn's Jack Ginnivan.
The outcome is impossible to predict, but it's hard not to think about the precedent set by Collingwood's Pendlebury earlier this year.
Pendlebury was given a one match ban for rough conduct against Adelaide's Josh Worrell, only to have it downgraded to a $3,000 fine due to "compelling and exceptional circumstances.