A busy weekend for the TSL match review office has seen three separate incidents of umpire abuse and a clean slate for Launceston midfielder Jay Blackberry.
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Cited for a tackle on Glenorchy's Nathan Blowfield, the 29-year-old veteran successfully challenged a two-match ban at Tuesday night's tribunal, with evidence from Blowfield, the umpire and video footage considered.
Blackberry sits equal top the TSL player of the year leader board with teammate Jake Hinds.
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The TSL will provide "further correspondence" to Clarence and Kingborough following quarter-time and half-time melees, while Roo Oscar Paprotny's one-week ban for "unnecessary contact" with Elijah Reardon was reduced to a reprimand with an early guilty plea.
Clarence pair Josh Green and Jacques Barwick, plus Glenorchy development league player Jordan Green, were sent directly to Tuesday night's tribunal to answer charges of umpire abuse.
"We are committed to providing a safe and inclusive environment for all players, officials and umpires," the TSL said in a statement.
"We won't tolerate abusive and disrespectful behaviour, it must stop."
In the other senior game, Allen Christensen and a number of Lauderdale teammates were acquitted of sparking a melee in the two-point win over North Hobart.
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Southern Bomber Nicholas Raglione took a reprimand for striking North Hobart's Bradley Young.
In the development league, Lauderdale players are being investigated for abuse towards all three field umpires at three-quarter time, while a melee between Launceston and Glenorchy will also be the subject of "further correspondence".
Between rounds seven and 19, the TSL match review office has handled 18 separate melee incidents and five reports relating to umpire abuse, three of which have involved Lauderdale players.
The NTFA does not make its weekly match review findings public.