FIGHTBACK: CATS TO TAKE SELWOOD BAN TO AFL TRIBUNAL

GEELONG is set to take captain Joel Selwood’s one-game striking suspension to the AFL tribunal.

Cats coach Chris Scott is shocked at Selwood’s charge and said he would take a lot of convincing not to back a tribunal challenge.

He said he was proud of the restraint Selwood showed after a bump from Port Adelaide small forward Lindsay Thomas concussed his brother Scott.

Match reviewer Michael Christian has already referred Thomas and Hawthorn defender James Sicily to tonight’s tribunal.

Thomas faces a suspension of three to four weeks for rough conduct, after he ironed out Scott Selwood with a bump.

Immediately after that incident on Saturday night at Adelaide Oval, the Cats captain remonstrated with Thomas.

Joel Selwood and Thomas face one-game bans for striking each other in that scuffle.

“I’m shocked ... our decisionmakers need to take the time to really dissect the vision,” Scott said.

“As a football person, you look at it — independent of the fact that his brother’s just been knocked out — and think ‘is that worth a week?’ That’s the question on my mind.”

Under the new tribunal system, Geelong also do not risk an extra week’s penalty by challenging the one-game ban for Selwood. “I can’t absolutely declare that we will challenge it,” he said. “But those smart people [at Geelong] would have to do a really good job of convincing me that I should roll over on it.”

Cats coach Chris Scott and his twin brother Brad were a formidable duo in Brisbane’s three-peat premiership team of 2001-03.

The Cats coach said he would not have been as restrained as Selwood if that bump had happened to Brad.

“I am proud of him — I played with my brother as well and if I saw that, I’m not sure I would have been as controlled,” het said.