COACH Paul Roos says there is no need to reel in Jack Viney’s aggressive style of play, as he has not been regularly suspended.

Although Viney will miss the next three to four weeks with a fractured knucklebone, he would’ve missed this Saturday’s clash against Hawthorn at the MCG anyway, as he copped a one-match suspension from the match review panel for striking Port Adelaide’s Brad Ebert at TIO Traeger Park Oval last round.

Roos said it was not a trait of Viney’s game to miss a host of matches through suspension.

“It’s something every coach is mindful of – you want your team to be physical and you want them to stand up for their teammates, but you don’t want them to get suspended and you don’t them to be out of the team,” he said.

“The thing at the moment – and it’s in Jack’s favour – is the fact he’s got a broken knuckle and he wouldn’t have played anyway.

“The fact that he’s such a good young kid – you take all of those things into consideration and it’s not a pattern for him either. If it becomes a pattern, then you tend to sit down and have a chat to him.

“He would know that he’d be disappointed in himself and he shouldn’t have done it. If that’s the case, you tend to leave them alone, but when it becomes a pattern, that’s when as a coach you tend to step in.”

Roos said Viney injured his knucklebone in a tackle early in the game.

“He said it happened in the first quarter and he can remember making a tackle – it was just one of those innocuous things,” he said.

With Viney out this weekend, first-year Melbourne player Clayton Oliver is a chance to return from injury, according to Roos.

“It was a corked leg and it was a six-day break and a flight to Alice Springs, so there were a lot of things that contributed to him not playing,” he said.

“I’d expect he’d be right to play this week.”

Reflecting on last Saturday’s 45-point loss to Port Adelaide in Alice Springs, Roos said a lot of things still went right against “a big-bodied, experienced team”.

“At the end of the day, we were able to score – we had 26 scoring shots, but [kicked] 16 behinds, which doesn’t help,” he said.

“The ease at which they scored meant that we just couldn’t bridge the gap.

“We dropped off a bit in the last 10 to 15 minutes … but there were some good signs for a young team, but we need to do better at our defensive stuff.”

Looking ahead to the clash against the Hawks, Roos said: “Their best is very, very good and we’re going to need to play very, very well to beat them.”