Geelong star Mitch Duncan is free to face West Coast this weekend after the AFL found he had no case to answer for his collision with Kangaroo Aaron Hall.

The Match Review confirmed Duncan made “high contact” with Hall when he leapt into the air and turned in an attempt to smother the shot on goal in the second term.

Hall was ruled out of the rest of the match.

“It was determined by the MRO that the action was not unreasonable in the circumstances,” the AFL said in a statement.

In the other findings, Docker Blake Acres has been fined $1000 for misconduct in his side’s away win over Adelaide while Hawks duo Sam Frost (misconduct) and Luke Breust (umpire contact) were also hit with $1000 fines.

Footy commentator Dermott Brereton meantime says it is “absurd” Eagle Tim Kelly had no case to answer for the collision with Collingwood’s Jordan De Goey that ruled him out of Friday’s match.

Speaking on SEN, Brereton was critical of the Match Review’s decision not to penalise Kelly given the precedent set by Geelong star Patrick Dangerfield’s suspension in round one.

“De Goey gets the ball, what did Tim Kelly do? He jumped,” Brereton argued.

“If you look at the replay, he put out a flat hand so he didn’t hurt his own player roughly to the shoulder/head/neck region of his teammate who was trailing De Goey and his hip went into De Goey.

“To the letter of the law, you would have to say he’s jumped and allowed contact to happen to Jordan De Goey.

“Why isn’t the onus on (Kelly)?

“He did not have the ball. He saw an opponent with the ball. And he chose to jump in the air and make contact.”

De Goey was left bloodied after the collision and didn’t return to face West Coast.

“Was there malice in Patrick Dangerfield’s intent? No,” Brereton said.

“There’s not one of us on earth who follows AFL who thinks Tim Kelly has a case to answer – but this is the absurdity of what happens to Patrick Dangerfield and those who get it wrong and have no intent.

“If you get the bump wrong, you will be liable for any head injuries.”

Brereton said there were similarities between the Kelly collision and the incident which cost Dangerfield a three-game ban back in round one.

The star Cat was suspended despite arguing he had no intent when he left Adelaide’s Jake Kelly concussed on Adelaide Oval.

“One thing is not different: neither had the ball, both were second to the ball carrier, both had an action/made an action which resulted in the ball carrier being carried off,” he said.

“What’s the difference there?

“That means that intent has had a say in the fact Tim Kelly has no case to answer.”