Fremantle forward Patrick Voss has been slapped with a $1000 fine for taunting Melbourne defender Harrison Petty on Saturday night.
After the Dockers piled on seven goals to one in a dominant first term, Voss and Petty could be seen exchanging words as the players went to their respective huddles.
WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: Patrick Voss taunts Harrison Petty at quarter-time
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Voss tapped Petty on the back of the head multiple times, perhaps highlighting the defender’s bald spot, before attempting to open old wounds with a questionable act. He took both his hands to eyes and pretending to wipe away tears in a reference to an incident with Brisbane’s Dayne Zorko from 2022.
Voss’s fine comes under the category of “other misconduct”.
AFL match review officer Michael Christian explained: “The MRO deemed that Voss’s action of rubbing the head of Petty multiple times, combined with the ‘crying’ references was unsportsmanlike and unacceptable.
“The action had the potential to instigate a melee or retaliatory action and is an action that we do not want to see flow down into community or junior football and hence the charge to deter players from doing it in future.”
Elsewhere, Gold Coast midfielder-forward Bailey Humphrey has been suspended for two matches for his dangerous tackle on Richmond forward Maurice Rioli.
The loss of Humphrey will be compounded by that of Christian Petracca, who injured his hamstring against the Tigers.
Petracca had been the early Brownlow Medal favourite until going down on Saturday.
More to come …
