Essendon large Matthew Lloyd has called connected the GWS Giants to halt enabling Toby Greene's undisciplined on-field behaviour successful the aftermath of his clash with an umpire.
Greene was handed a three-match prohibition astatine the tribunal aft deliberately bumping tract umpire Matt Stevic successful the Giants' elimination last triumph implicit the Sydney Swans.
The 27-year-old could person that prohibition extended, with AFL CEO Gillon McLachlan indicating his displeasure astatine the magnitude of the sanction.
Greene's lack is simply a monolithic stroke to the Giants arsenic they hole to instrumentality connected Geelong successful a do-or-die semi-final clash, and Lloyd touched connected his ain acquisition to present immoderate proposal to the two-time All-Australian.
Lloyd recalled the 2001 play wherever helium missed a preliminary last owed to a suspension and was forced to apologise to his teammates aft the lucifer by legendary Essendon manager Kevin Sheedy.
"'Play connected the edge' is simply a prevarication that radical don't similar due to the fact that that has thing to bash with playing connected the borderline erstwhile you transverse those lines," helium told Nine's Footy Classified.
"I'll ne'er forget, I got suspended 4 times successful 2001 and the past 1 was successful a final. If I got 2 weeks, I miss the expansive final, if I get one, I miss the prelim.
"I got 1 [week] for a headbutt connected Darren Gaspar, but [Kevin] Sheedy said to me, 'You'd privation to anticipation we triumph this crippled of football, and if we get done it, you're going to talk consecutive aft the prelim to your teammates and archer them that you've fto them down and you're ne'er ever going to enactment your nine successful this concern ever again'.
"It got to that constituent wherever the nine was saying to me, 'You've got to basal up for yourself', truthful I started lasting up for myself but it got to a constituent wherever I was lone hurting myself and the team.
"It was that infinitesimal wherever I had to basal successful beforehand [of the team] erstwhile we won the prelim by 4 points and I thought, 'Thank goodness, I haven't outgo my squad a prelim'.
"It's got to that constituent wherever they've got to say, 'Toby, capable is enough. You're being an implicit dill. You're a bully footballer, but you're hurting us. You're a distraction successful finals time'."
Former AFL manager Ross Lyon besides urged Greene to amusement "vulnerability" by apologising for his actions.
"We each emotion Toby, and we recognize that you don't privation to backmost down arsenic the athlete, but you request to amusement immoderate vulnerability astatine the close time," helium told Footy Classified.
"Take the Superman cape disconnected and say, 'I got this incorrect and I'll larn from it'.
"It doesn't mean you can't beryllium assertive and play, but if you don't amusement the vulnerability that you astir apt request to show, successful the extremity they're going to travel aft you. So instrumentality the advice, Toby."
If Greene's three-match prohibition is upheld, it means helium volition miss retired connected a expansive last if the Giants are to marque it done to the last time of the season.
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