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Port's Houston sent to tribunal with AFL future unclear

Power's Dan Houston was engulfed in a melee after he knocked out the Crows' Izak Rankine. (Matt Turner/AAP PHOTOS)

Port Adelaide coach Ken Hinkley has defended Dan Houston as a "fair player" after the star defender landed himself in hot water over a high bump on Izak Rankine during a fiery AFL Showdown.

Houston laid out Rankine with a shirt-front during the third quarter of the second-placed Power's important 11.14 (80) to 8.10 (58) victory at Adelaide Oval on Saturday night.

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