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Steve Larkin

'I'm comfortable': AFL boss on blood-smearing ban

AFL CEO Andrew Dillon has addressed the ban imposed on Tristan Xerri for blood smearing. (James Ross/AAP PHOTOS)

AFL chief Andrew Dillon is 'comfortable' with the Tribunal's three-match ban to North Melbourne's Tristan Xerri over a blood-smearing act.

Xerri told the Tribunal of his "brain fade" involving Essendon's Andrew McGrath - and Dillon agrees with the Kangaroo ruckman.

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