Richmond will head to the AFL tribunal tonight to contest a charging offence on midfielder Trent Cotchin.

The Tigers will attempt to have the charge downgraded in a bid to reduce the four-game penalty handed out by the Match Review Panel (MPR).

The Club chose not to take the early guilty plea offered by the MPR, which would have reduced the suspension to three matches.

The incident was assessed as a level four charging offence against the Kangaroos’ Sam Wright during the second quarter of Sunday’s match.

The incident was assessed as reckless conduct (two points), high impact (three points) and high contact (two points).

This is a total of seven activation points, resulting in a classification of a Level Four offence, drawing 425 demerit points and a four-match sanction.