Skipper: Cameron critics are disgusting

GREATER Western Sydney co-captain Phil Davis has leapt to Jeremy Cameron’s defence, blasting critics of the controversial AFL incident involving his teammate that has landed him a five-week suspension.

Cameron’s heavy contact with his elbow on defender Harris Andrews during Saturday’s win over Brisbane left the Lion with concussion and brain bleeding. While Davis conceded the 25-year-old deserves to be suspended by the AFL tribunal, he believed reaction directed at his teammate in the aftermath was “disgusting”. Andrews will miss at least two games as a result of the incident. The Lions vice-captain approached Cameron after the fulltime siren but his condition took a turn for the worse later that night before spending time in hospital.

“Some of the reaction has really disappointed me,” Davis said on The Footy Phil podcast.

“When you have people who speak with bias, slanderous words. The hyperbole surrounding some of the comments was disgusting.”

Davis said the incident was nowhere near as bad as it looked on TV, pointing to Lions players who barely remonstrated with Cameron at the time.

“I think people that don’t understand that, in particular, are certain journalists who sit behind the microphone, their pieces of paper and haven’t lived it and experienced it,” Davis said.