Weekly Times | HARROW-Balmoral’s Ben Deutscher will be available for selection this week after serving a three-week suspension for a bump that left Pimpinio’s Daniel Baker with damaged vertebrae.
Deutscher was not reported during the Round 11 Horsham District league clash but a league investigation found he made forceful contact with Baker’s head. AFL Wimmera general manager Steve McQueen said Baker would miss the rest of the season.
Deutscher was banned for six games, but three were suspended until the end of 2016.
McQueen said Deutscher was “remorseful”, there was no malicious nature to the bump and the tribunal’s suspension did not serve to “make an example” of him.
Harrow-Balmoral president Mark Caulfield would not comment the severity of the penalty, as Deutscher and the club “just want to move on”.
