ADELAIDE superstar Patrick Dangerfield is happy to cop a hard tag week in week out as long as the Crows keep winning.
Dangerfield averaged 27 possessions, two goals, four tackles and eight clearances leading into last Saturday's game against Melbourne but was largely bullied out of the contest at Adelaide Oval by former teammate Bernie Vince.
He was kept goalless and to just two clearances and 16 disposals.
Vince's needling and rough tactics, although nothing new, incited a three-quarter time push and shove which led to nine players being fined by the AFL Tribunal.
While visibly annoyed throughout the game, Dangerfield told Adelaide radio station 5AA that he was annoyed with his poor performance rather than the hard tag.
"It's frustrating, but you're not really frustrated in Bernie or what Bernie is doing - it's more frustrated in yourself that you're not playing the way you know that you can," he said.
"That was disappointing for me on the weekend. I want to play better than that but at the same time I'll take that every week if we win by five goals."
Dangerfield also weighed in on the three-week suspension handed to Port Adelaide's Andrew Moore for pushing an umpire in the SANFL.
Moore claimed he was trying to demonstrate to the umpire a previous on-field incident with North Adelaide opponent Heath Caldwell.
The SANFL Tribunal rejected his evidence and banned him for three games, stating that the League's "umpires are very young so the SANFL and its affiliated leagues have to take a stance against a player who pushes an umpire.’’
Dangerfield said commonsense should be followed.
"It's a really tough decision…from my understanding, even the umpire when they were reviewing it a few days ago said there wasn't anything in it, he was just showing what had happened," he said.
"Surely we need some sort of commonsense rule in regards to that sort of thing - but they're making a really strong stance that you cannot touch an umpire in any way."
The Power are expected to appeal the Tribunal's suspension on Wednesday morning.
