Giants 'stunned' as Toby Greene fails to overturn AFL ban

  • Greene to miss preliminary final after appeal fails
  • ‘In over 20 years, I’ve never seen a worse decision’

Greater Western Sydney might be bitterly disappointed Toby Greene’s contentious one-match ban wasn’t overturned on appeal, but leading player manager Paul Connors can beat that – he’s plain furious.

Greene won’t play in Saturday’s preliminary final against Collingwood at the MCG after the AFL appeals board upheld the penalty at a hearing at AFL House on Thursday night. The Giants have ruled out legal action, leaving Greene to serve a suspension for making unreasonable or unnecessary contact to the eye region of Brisbane’s Lachie Neale.

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