Brent Moloney's trip to the AFL tribunal was successful on Tuesday night, even though the Melbourne midfielder was found guilty of front-on contact.

Moloney will play his 100th senior game on Saturday against his old side Geelong after the tribunal jury downgraded his charge from reckless to negligent.

That, coupled with a 25 per cent discount for good behaviour over the last five years meant he was left with 93.75 carryover points, just under the threshold of 100 for a one-game suspension.

Moloney had nothing to lose - his good behaviour discount meant that whether he challenged the charge or not, he was facing a one-match suspension.

"I'm obviously very happy in the end, to get off and play this week," he said.

"We were pretty confident, the way we went about it, and that I hit him from the side - the tribunal thought that as well, so it was a good result.

"It's my 100th game and against my old team Geelong, so I'm really looking forward to that now.

"I was a bit nervous early in the week and now I can just concentrate on the Cats on Saturday."

Moloney and his advocate Iain Findlay made a solid argument over the incident, which happened in the frenetic last few minutes of Saturday night's thriller in Darwin against Port Adelaide.

Port Adelaide utility Tom Logan and Moloney dived for a ground ball and Moloney made contact with Logan.

But video footage of the incident was inconclusive about whether Moloney made contact with Logan's head.

Reporting umpire Damien Sully also conceded the contact was side-on.

"It is not front-on contact at all ... this is clearly a bump to the side," Findlay said.

Findlay emphasised Moloney tried to minimise the impact of the bump on Logan.

"I understand you can't make frontal contact, especially head-high contact," Moloney testified.

Still, after deliberating for 15 minutes the three-man jury ruled that it was front-on contact and it was also high, meaning Moloney was guilty.

Moloney was the only case before the tribunal this week, after the other seven charged players accepted their penalties.

Western Bulldogs key forward Barry Hall predictably took his $3000 fine for the head lock on North Melbourne defender Scott Thompson.

Port Adelaide's Jason Davenport has a one-match ban for striking Melbourne opponent Colin Garland, while Jay Schulz received 70.31 points, also for striking Garland.

Collingwood's Chris Dawes has 93.75 points for rough conduct against Geelong captain Cameron Ling, while Fremantle's Rising Star nominee Nathan Fyfe received a $900 fine for negligent umpire contact.

St Kilda onballer Brendon Goddard accepted an $1800 penalty for negligent umpire contact and Richmond youngster Mitch Farmer has 93.75 points for striking Essendon tall utility Michael Hurley.

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