Former Western Bulldogs captain Bob Murphy believes Essendon’s Conor McKenna should have received a five-week ban for biting Tory Dickson.
McKenna copped a three-week suspension at the tribunal last night, a punishment Murphy thinks doesn’t fit the act.
“Three weeks is not enough,” he told SEN Breakfast.
“I can’t get my head around the fact that we have a game at the moment where you can get two-to-three weeks for a sling tackle, and then the same punishment for someone biting someone on the neck.
“If you have been found guilty of biting, four I would have been okay with, but I had it at five.”
McKenna pleaded guilty and took full responsibility for his actions at the tribunal, which helped him knock a week off his ban.
Jeff Gleeson QC, who was acting for the AFL at the tribunal, said the “sheer act of desperation” was not in the “spirit” of the game.