Brayden Maynard: Collingwood defender describes hit on Angus Brayshaw as ‘footy act’
Collingwood enforcer Brayden Maynard has defended his hit on Angus Brayshaw, describing the brutal conflict that ended the Demon’s night time early as a “footy act”.
It comes as Melbourne coach Simon Goodwin indicated that he wasn’t proud of the incident within the aftermath of his aspect’s seven-point loss and labelled Brayshaw “shattered”.
Maynard jumped to try to smother a Brayshaw kick within the opening minutes of the match earlier than his proper shoulder collected Brayshaw within the aspect of the pinnacle as he landed.
Brayshaw required quick medical consideration and needed to be taken off the bottom in a stretcher, with the midfielder dominated out of the remainder of the sport.
Maynard is about to face scrutiny from Match Evaluation Officer Michael Christian for the incident, which sparked wild scenes of retaliation led by Melbourne’s Jack Viney.
Chatting with Seven after the sport, Maynard mentioned he was assured he wouldn’t have something to fret about as he seems to keep away from suspension forward of Collingwood’s preliminary last fixture in a fortnight’s time.
“I assume I don’t need to say an excessive amount of, but it surely’s a footy act,” Maynard mentioned.
“I got here ahead. I jumped to smother the ball and sadly I simply obtained him on the best way down.
“So I don’t know. We’ll have to attend and see what occurs.
“Nevertheless it’s all love. I completely love that man to bits. So it’s shattering what occurred.”
Goodwin mentioned he would depart the decision within the fingers of Christian however indicated he believed it required a overview.
“That can be sorted out through the week. However we’ve obtained a fairly shattered participant in there,” he mentioned.
“You possibly can solely go by the information – he jumped off the bottom and knocked a man out. So I assume time will inform.”
Goodwin mentioned Brayshaw was “upset” within the rooms after the sport.
“He’s clearly had a historical past with concussion a very long time in the past. So he’s clearly coping with some emotion there,” Goodwin mentioned.
“He needs to play finals footy and he’s going to be lacking for a number of weeks, in order that’s disappointing.”
Magpies coach Craig McRae praised Maynard’s professionalism for having an essential impression throughout the sport within the wake of the incident, however mentioned he wasn’t certain how the conflict could be assessed.
“It didn’t appear to be it had a lot malice. However I’ll depart it as much as others to resolve if that’s worthy of a suspension or not,” McRae mentioned.
Christian will make his evaluation on Friday.
Seven analyst Matthew Richardson mentioned he believed Maynard could be cleared, however was involved that if he did have a case to reply, it may put a possible grand last berth in jeopardy.
“It’s so powerful, this one,” he mentioned. “I feel if he will get rubbed out, it’s not going to be one week.”
Fellow analyst Kane Cornes agreed Maynard would get off the hook, writing on X (previously Twitter): “Nothing else Maynard may have accomplished there.”
Melbourne’s Jacob van Rooyen is going through scrutiny of his personal after his elbow made contact with the jaw of Collingwood’s Dan McStay.
The Magpie went off the bottom for a head harm evaluation however returned to play out the match.
