Docker Suban outed for one match

Suspended ... Nick Suban will sit out the opening match of 2014. Source: George Salpigtidis / News Limited

FREMANTLE defender Nick Suban's Grand Final misery is compounded by being forced to sit out the first round of the 2014 AFL season.

Suban was suspended for one match and has 50 demerit points hanging over him for the next 12 months from a misconduct charge.

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The contrite Dockers defender apologised to Hawthorn midfielder Sam Mitchell at an AFL Tribunal hearing by video link from Perth.

Suban pleaded guilty to making unreasonable and unnecessary contact to Mitchell's face during a stoppage in the first quarter last Saturday.

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He told the hearing he had no recollection of the incident that showed his hand grappling Mitchell's left cheek while the pair were lying on the ground.

The AFL match review panel decided not to grade the misconduct charge under the demerit points system and instead referred it directly to the tribunal.

AFL legal counsel Jeff Gleeson SC recommended a one match penalty for Suban.

Gleeson described Suban's face contact as "an unsightly act and a regretable act'', but said it was not malicious or had the potential to cause injury.

"There's no indication Sam Mitchell was scratched or that he even put his hand to his face,'' Gleeson said.

Defence advocate John Prior said there was no suggestion Suban had deliberately put his fingers or thumb into Mitchell's mouth and described it as "a one-off, out-of-character act.''

The hearing was told Suban, the 2008 Vic Country under 18s captain, had played 84 AFL games in five seasons and never previously been reported.

Tribunal chairman David Jones, in his summary to the jury, took the unusual step of stating that he believed a one-match penalty would be appropriate for what "seems to be at the low end of misconduct when you look at the circumstances.''

Hawthorn was granted an extra 24 hours to consider whether to challenge Norm Smith medalist Brian Lake's three-games suspension for striking and forward Cyril Rioli's one-game ban for rough conduct.

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