COACH Paul Roos says the AFL tribunal needs to provide clarity if Jack Viney’s two-match suspension is not overturned at Thursday night’s appeal hearing.

Roos said the trio that found Viney guilty of rough conduct on Adelaide’s Tom Lynch on Tuesday night needed to explain why the Demon midfielder was rubbed out for a couple of weeks.

“If it doesn’t get overturned – we need to hear from Emmett Dunne, Wayne Henwood and Wayne Schimmelbusch. I think we desperately need to hear from them, because they seem to have a completely different view,” he said on Dee TV’s Roos’ Views.

“Depending on what poll you believe, 90 to 95 per cent of the population [disagree with the decision to suspend Viney for two matches]. I would just love to sit down and talk to them (Dunne, Henwood and Schimmelbusch) and how they can come to the conclusion of it.

“I think I know what a bump is – it’s when you drive into someone and your shoulder is down and your body is in a forward motion – it’s not leaning backwards and taking evasive action.

“But obviously they think differently to what I do and what 95 per cent of the public do.”

Roos was adamant Viney had no other alternative in the contest with Lynch.

“We’re supportive of the rule – there’s no question. I think the rule is reasonably clear, apart from the [Nathan] Fyfe head knock, which surprised us a bit,” he said.

“If you chose to bump and had another alternative – then you suffer the consequences. We don’t believe Jack bumped, as was presented in the case. If you bump and you hurt someone and you’ve got no other alternative – you suffer the consequences. I’m 100 per cent behind that and we are as a club and I’m sure the players are.

“I think what we’re seeing now is a player protecting himself from oncoming traffic and he makes a last minute decision. You can’t jump out of the way – I think we all agree on that. There is no other alternative to do what he’s done and he actually tried to protect himself, so that’s where it’s totally confused me.”  

Roos said the support for Viney had been far reaching across the football fraternity.

“I think we were all stunned the other night. It was the players’ day off yesterday (Wednesday), which was probably a good thing,” he said.

“I think the club had to appeal. Not only was the club demanding it, the football public was demanding an appeal. You even had Andrew Demetriou coming out, which was unusual, and saying that he felt he (Viney) was unlucky.

“Universally, we’re appealing for Jack, but we’re appealing for the football public. I think the fact that Jack had the day off yesterday was good and today we’ll sit down with him and work out the process.”