Carlton Supporters Club

THE Gold Coast Suns are fuming over an off-the-ball kneeing incident from Carlton’s Andrew Carrazzo that forced veteran Michael Rischitelli to be subbed out of Saturday’s game and has him in doubt to take on Port Adelaide this weekend.

The match review panel last night suspended Hawthorn’s Coleman medal leader Jarryd Roughead for one match for tripping Melbourne’s Dom Tyson – but found Carrazzo had no case to answer for the knee to Rischitelli’s hip that left the Gold Coast vice-captain still hobbling yesterday and expected to be unable to train all week.
AFL spokesman Patrick Keane confirmed the panel had looked into the incident but did not believe an offence had been committed.
The incident was spotted by several Suns interchange and bench officials who were furious and sparked a boundary side blow-up in which Rischitelli hurled abuse at Carrazzo.

He is believed to have accused the Blues tagger of a dog act and was forcibly restrained by an interchange official.
Rischitelli was assigned a tagging job on Blues captain Marc Murphy. The game was just minutes old when Carrazzo, in a crude blocking attempt well off the ball, ran across Rischitelli’s path and kneed him in the hip.

So Carlton is now protecting our good players from taggers. about time too.

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incident from Carlton’s Andrew Carrazzo that forced veteran Michael Rischitelli

Some of these media scribes like to blow things up more than is needed.

Saw on TV that Rischitelli was absolutely doing his block at the Blues bench, where Carrazzo was presumably seated (I couldn't see him there).

He was clearly incensed about the incident so I guess there was plenty in it. Bad luck, we've copped enough in our time. Good to see the message getting out loud and clear, "touch one of ours and see what you get!"