Trengove to miss three AFL matches

MELBOURNE (AAP) - Melbourne's young on-baller Jack Trengove is out for three AFL matches after failing to beat a charge of rough conduct.
Trengove's heavy tackle on Patrick Dangerfield during the third quarter of the match at the MCG on Sunday left the Adelaide player concussed and forced him from the field.
Trengove could have accepted a two-match ban with an early guilty plea.
The 19-year-old, who was the No.2 draft pick in 2009, will miss matches against North Melbourne, St Kilda and Carlton.
"I'm disappointed but I've got to move on now," Trengove said after the hearing on Tuesday night.
Trengove will have 325 demerit points imposed on his playing record.
The youngster argued that he didn't apply excessive force in the tackle and that he overbalanced because Dangerfield kicked Trengove's leg out from under him while the Adelaide player was attempting to kick the ball.
"It's an accident that happens," Trengove said of Dangerfield's head slamming into the ground.
"I don't intend a guy to get concussion from that sort of tackle."
Legal counsel Andrew Tinney seized on Trengove's statement that it was important to make every tackle "stick".
"This was a tackle that was simply too forceful," Tinney said.
Sydney defender Ted Richards was found not guilty of a rough-conduct charge.
Richards, who was facing a one-match ban, successfully argued that his bump on Western Bulldogs utility Lindsay Gilbee was not to the head/neck area during the second quarter of Saturday's game in Canberra.
Fremantle's Nathan Fyfe will challenge his fine for negligent umpire contact later on Tuesday night.