WEST Coast defender Brent Staker copped it on the chin, and now Sydney Swans forward Barry Hall says it's his turn.

Hall was reported for felling Staker in the first quarter of Saturday night's match, which the Swans won handsomely by 62 points.

"Certainly watching the vision afterwards, it looked terrible," Hall, 31, said, adding he was likely to require surgery for a suspected broken right wrist suffered in a collision with the fence in the fourth quarter.

"I certainly didn't mean to hit him high or to cause damage the way I did for him to be off for the rest of the game.

"But the thing is it did and it shouldn't happen in the first place. I shouldn't put myself in that position.

"I'll cop that on the chin and whatever the tribunal comes up with, I've just got to cop.

"I'll take my medicine. Whatever they think is fair. It's pretty hard to defend my actions. It's there in black and white."

Hall, the Swans' six-time leading goalkicker, has been suspended for a total of 16 matches and found guilty six times.

The three-time All-Australian's most recent suspension was in 2002.

"I've been really good with that sort of stuff for a long time and I made a mistake.” Hall said.

"There was frustration there. It was a spur-of-the-moment, split-second thing.

"It was a mind explosion and it looked really ordinary on the replay. I certainly regret what I did."

Hall said he had left a message on Staker's phone in a bid to get in touch with the dazed defender.

"I apologised to him," Hall said.

"I wished him the best for next week and hopefully he plays and plays well (against Port Adelaide).

"I left it up to him. If he wanted to call me back, I'd be quite happy to chat to him."

Swans coach Paul Roos said the incident was “not great for footy”.

“It's not great for the footy club, it's not great for the development of the code.

"We'll stand by Hally, he has been exemplary while he has been at this footy club, certainly under my reign (mid-2002 onwards)."

Hall said he was prepared for the endless TV replays of the punch over the next few days and the front-page headlines.

"I just think the reputation and the boxing and all that sort of stuff has probably made it a little bit worse, the aftermath of it," he said.

"I'll take my medicine. Whatever they think is fair. It's pretty hard to defend my actions."