Dockers unhappy with ‘manhandling’ of young gun Amiss

Rising Fremantle cardinal guardant Jye Amiss is being unfairly “manhandled” disconnected the shot and needs umpires to support him better, says Dockers manager Justin Longmuir.

Amiss, 20, kicked 2 goals successful his instrumentality from concussion connected Sunday, arsenic Fremantle claimed a 15.13 (103) to 6.13 (49) triumph astatine the MCG implicit Richmond.

Jye Amiss of the Dockers and Ben Miller of Richmond wrestle during Sunday’s match.Credit: Getty Images

He received a escaped footwear and goaled conscionable earlier the full-time siren erstwhile Richmond defender Ben Miller flung him to the ground, past dropped his knees into him - incensing the forward’s Fremantle teammates and causing a scuffle.

“I’ve got large concerns the mode he’s been treated each year,” Longmuir said.

“We’ve gone to the umpires asking for a spot much extortion for Jye.

“Some of the attraction helium got down the shot contiguous - I recognize that defenders request to artifact runs and each that benignant of happening but that incidental late, it’s not ideal.

“And I consciousness similar he’s been manhandled astatine times and passim the twelvemonth we request to look aft those benignant of players.

“Opposition defenders spot that he’s a small spot lighter framed and he’s young and the lone mode they tin halt him is get him successful those wrestles and sometimes instrumentality it crossed the line.

“So successful those situations, the umpires request to construe those situations and halt it due to the fact that defenders volition support getting distant with arsenic overmuch arsenic they’re allowed to get distant with.

“AFL footballers are precise astute - truthful we’ll proceed that (discussion) with the AFL. We request to look aft him due to the fact that I americium acrophobic astatine times that he’s going to get injured.”

Longmuir stressed Amiss was good and unbothered by his treatment

“But I consciousness similar arsenic a coach, and arsenic a club, we’ve got to look aft him,” helium added.

Longmuir said Fremantle hadn’t received the “result” they’d wanted from the AFL yet, but would stay “in dialogue” with them and proceed to constituent retired examples of Amiss being “manhandled”.

Richmond counterpart Adem Yze said helium didn’t spot the Miller-Amiss incident.

“No, we didn’t person a people connected him oregon thing similar that,” Yze said.

“So not definite what was happening. I deliberation it was conscionable 2 young guys going astatine it and having a spot of a wrestle.”

But erstwhile it was noted Longmuir had been unhappy with Amiss’s attraction passim the game, and called it manhandling, Yze scoffed astatine the proposition and took objection.

“Okay, yeah, well, our defenders effort to bounds the entree their forwards get astatine the ball,” helium said.

“So if that’s manhandling, good past that’s the game. We’re not going to let a guardant to get a wide tally astatine it.

“He’s a bully young subordinate that needs a leap astatine the footy. So our defenders bash effort to bounds the accidental that their forwards get to leap astatine the footy.

“So if that’s manhandling, good truthful beryllium it - that’s the game.”

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