Collingwood young gun Jaidyn Stephenson was yesterday suspended for 10 games after an investigation into bets placed on three Collingwood matches this year.
Stephenson received a total of 22 games banned, with 12 suspended, as well as a $20,000 fine.
The footy world has reacted to the ban, and Collingwood senior coach Nathan Buckley had his say this morning.
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Speaking on SEN, Buckley said that his opinion of Stephenson hasn't been diminished at all.
“He’s a good young man, Stepho,” Buckley said.
“My opinion of him and esteem of him has only risen in the last month the way he has handled this situation. It will set him in good stead, it will teach him and any others a pretty strong lesson.
“I’m not angry with him. I can understand how (it happened), the way he describes it."
Buckley also said he was happy with the way Collingwood has carried themselves during the investigation.
“I’m extremely proud of the way the club has carried itself, and Jaidyn in particular, after making a couple of rookie, naïve mistakes and errors, that I think are just that.
“I don’t think there was any malice or any intent to undermine the integrity of the game at all.”
Meanwhile, Collingwood president Eddie McGuire said on Triple M he thought that Stephenson's punishment was a 'heavy' one.
“We believe that there is no way that the AFL would have found out that his mate had put on a multi unless he came forward,” McGuire said.
"The circumstances were that he was sitting on his couch with his mate who was having a multi, and as we know you can not in this world these days not hear the word multi rammed down your throat 3000 times a night anywhere you go if you’re watching any sport whatsoever.
"Bottom line on all that is, you go forward, but that the integrity of the game is the paramount concern of everybody.
“He gets 10 weeks, I thought personally eight weeks would be a pretty heavy sanction... people might say that’s a number that’s been picked (the 22 week suspension of which 12 is suspended)."