THE TRIBUNAL will sit tonight after Port Adelaide’s Chad Cornes chose to contest his striking charge.

West Coast star Daniel Kerr and Fremantle’s Josh Carr both accepted their three-match suspensions after both were charged by the match review panel on Monday.

All other players accepted their sanctions.

Cornes could have accepted a reprimand with an early guilty plea. He will face a one-match ban if he fails to defend the charge on Tuesday night, but will be sidelined regardless until at least round nine because of a broken finger. He was charged with striking St Kilda’s Jason Blake during Saturday’s night game at AAMI Stadium.

Kerr was charged with head-butting Bulldog Scott West during Saturday’s match at Telstra Dome. The panel deemed the contact to West's jaw, which forced the Bulldog to spend some time on the bench recovering, as intentional, high contact, of medium impact.

Kerr's previous poor record resulted in the penalty being bumped up by 40 per cent, as well as having 46.78 carryover points added on.

He would have risked a five-match ban by fighting the case at the tribunal.

Carr also faced an increased ban due to a poor disciplinary record after being charged with kneeing Geelong’s Gary Ablett during Friday night’s cliffhanger at Subiaco Oval.

The offence was judged to merit a two-match penalty, which was doubled because of Carr’s record, but was reduced to three matches with an early plea.

Kerr also accepted a $900 fine for wrestling Dylan Addison, who accepted a fine for the same amount. Collingwood’s Dale Thomas and Essendon’s Kyle Reimers accepted $900 fines for wrestling each other during Friday’s Anzac Day clash.

Brent Staker and Ben McGlynn took reprimands after entering early pleas to their low-grade striking charges, against Bulldog Robert Murphy and Richmond’s Matthew White, respectively.

Sydney Swan Luke Ablett accepted a $1950 fine after being charged with making negligent contact with umpire Michael Avon during Sunday’s draw with North Melbourne.