Lauderdale seven up on ban, Winter awaits

LAUDERDALE players have been slapped with a total of seven matches in suspensions from the TSL grand final last Saturday – and that is before coach Darren Winter faces the tribunal on Thursday night.

The match review panel took four hours to wade through vision of the incidents from the showdown between North Launceston and Lauderdale at UTas Stadium on a day the Northern Bombers took the standard of State League football to new heights.

Four Lauderdale players were found guilty and suspended – onballer Thor Boscott, centre half-back Josh McGuiness and fellow-defender Max Kleverkamp for striking, and midfielder Robbie McManus for instigating a melee.

Winter’s case has been sent straight to the tribunal.

He was reported for “behaving in an abusive, insulting, threatening or obscene manner towards or in relation to an umpire in the first quarter”.

Winter told the Mercury on Monday that he regretted his actions.

“It was not good enough by me, to be perfectly honest,” he said.

“It was frustrating to see so many scoring opportunities being given to the opposition.

“I probably vented my frustration with a pretty simple message to stop it to the umpires.”

McManus was punished for instigating a half-time melee, but the MRP viewed it as a “low-level” offence and gave a one-match ban.

Interestingly, no fines were meted out to either club for the all-in scrap.

Boscott was found guilty of striking North Launceston whiz kid Tarryn Thomas after the MRP ruled it as “unnecess- ary” and “intentional with low impact to the body”.

Kleverkamp copped one match for striking Northern Bomber Jake Pearce, but the MRP enforced its 100 per cent rule for incidents in a grand final and doubled it to two.

McGuinness copped two for striking big Bomber Bart McCulloch, the MRP describing it as “low impact and high contact”.

McGuiness was also referred to the MRP for “late contact” on North onballer Mark Walsh but was found to have no case to answer.

Boscott, McGuinness and Kleverkamp all copped twomatch bans, which can be reduced to one with early guilty pleas by noon today.