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WEST Coast could be without Luke Shuey for its clash with the Brisbane Lions this week after the young gun was charged with striking by the Match Review Panel.

Shuey's strike on Fremantle's Paul Duffield during the fourth quarter of Sunday's Derby was assessed as intentional, low and body contact, adding up to a level three offence.

He can accept a one-week sanction with a guilty plea, or risk a two-week ban if he decides to take his case to the tribunal.

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Article: http://www.afl.com.au/news/newsarticle/tabid/208/newsid/137116/default.aspx
Full MRP statement: http://www.afl.com.au/news/newsarticle/tabid/208/newsid/137117/default.aspx

EDIT

Thanks for Ochre pointing it out, but according to the 2012 Tribunal Handbook Intentional/Low/Body is 5 activation points and Level 2 offence (125 demerits). With an early plea this should be reduced down to 93.75 points - a reprimand, if I am not mistaken.

The statement says:

the incident was assessed as intentional conduct (three points), low impact (one point) and body contact (one point). This is a total of six activation points

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http://www.afl.com.au/news/newsarticle/tabid/208/newsid/137117/default.aspx

And obviously math tells us it is in fact 5 activation points. A few posters have tweeted the club, the AFL and various journos for clarification.

EDIT 2

According to "The Verdict" video on the AFL website the impact was "medium", contrary to the above articles. This would make it the six activation points.

Mark Fraser (Chairman of the MRP):

With this incident you can see there's a strike to the stomach, Duffield goes to ground, we received a medical report from Fremantle and from looking at the vision and that medical report we deemed there was a strike of medium impact. You can see from the down the ground vision that Duffield stays on the ground for an extended period of time, before he goes off and we believe that warrants a medium impact charge.

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Tweet from the AFL:

Luke Shuey's sanction was deemed medium impact. An error in our story said low impact. Total points remain at 6, his one match ban stands.

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