Port Adelaide coach Ken Hinkley says he's disappointed at the inconsistency of the match review panel and wants the AFL to find a better system.
Hinkley's master tagger Kane Cornes has been suspended for one match for rough conduct - his first ban in a decorated 13-year career.
Port lost a tribunal appeal against the review panel's verdict for Cornes' behind-play contact with Hawthorn's Sam Mitchell last week.
"There are some times when you look at the grading of things and how things turn out that perhaps there are some hard-done-by cases - and there has been over the year," Hinkley told reporters on Friday.
"And there has been some blokes who have probably got off a bit light.
"Perhaps I put Kane as a hard-done-by case.
"I don't think I'm confused. I'm a little bit disappointed in the way things get handled at times."
Hinkley said the system was inconsistent.
"There are some actions that go on that you think should get marked a bit harder and there's some actions that go on and you think 'gee, that has been marked tough'," he said.
"Once we get away from being able to say that, we'll have a system that is pretty good. But at the moment, we don't have it."
The first-year Power coach called on the AFL to review the process.
"I would assume they would review everything ... and hopefully come up with a better system that is more consistent," he said.
"I get the gradings out and go 'yeah, I think I have got an idea where this is going to end up'.
"That is the key thing: I would have said 90 per cent of the time it gets pretty close.
"But there is that part of it that doesn't quite always stack up to what you think should be, in my opinion, a good judgment."
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