Barry Hall will accept his one-match ban for attempting to strike Collingwood defender Shane Wakelin.
Hall was playing just his third match after resuming from a seven-match suspension for his king-hit on West Coast defender Brent Staker in Round 4.
But while even the match review panel admitted he did not make contact to Wakelin in Saturday night's latest outburst, the 31-year-old's previous record has ensured he could not escape with a reprimand on a charge that is rarely laid in the AFL.
The panel charged Hall with a level-two offence of attempting to strike with his actions ruled intentional.
And while the charge on its own carries just 80 points - below the 100-point cut-off for a one-match suspension - Hall's points tally rose to 210 points because of his past record.
That means he was facing the possibility of a two-match suspension if he challenged the case at the AFL tribunal on Tuesday night.
Hall was the only player booked from the second half of the split round after Adelaide's Brett Burton and Collingwood's Travis Cloke - who has only just returned from suspension - were looked at but cleared over clashes involving Geelong's Joel Selwood and Sydney's Lewis Roberts-Thomson respectively.
The report of Hall capped off a bad performance by the three-time All-Australian on Saturday night after he managed just 10 disposals and one goal during the Swans' disappointing 29-point loss.
Hall, who admitted he could not guarantee he would not re-offend after resuming from his seven-match suspension against St Kilda in Round 12, became increasingly frustrated during the match and gave away five free kicks.
Sydney coach Paul Roos admitted after the game Hall had hurt the team on Saturday night by allowing his frustrations to boil over yet again.
"Giving away free kicks doesn't help (but) the ball delivery wasn't great to any of our forwards," Roos said, when asked about Hall's performance.
Hall himself said he wanted to be known as 'a footballer and not a thug' prior to his comeback game against St Kilda but said then: "I've got to hold up my end of the bargain now and I've put all these steps in place for it not to happen again."
But now just three matches later Hall has transgressed again - although ironically this incident is less serious than the incident which saw him escape with a reprimand and lead the Swans to the 2005 premiership following his clash with St Kilda's Matt Maguire in the preliminary final.
Respected Brisbane Lions coach Leigh Matthews said on Monday that only Hall was capable of restoring his increasingly battered football reputation.
"The player has to handle it, the external people can't handle it and you have to play within the rules," Matthews said.
"If you go outside the rules then you will suffer the consequences."
And Matthews said there was no point blaming Wakelin for his role in the incident as the Magpies veteran blatantly staged for a free kick.
"As long as you are not putting yourself out of the play, that (Wakelin's actions) kind of comes under what I call gamesmanship," Matthews said.
"If you can milk a free kick you will milk a free kick and I am not going to be a moral arbitrator and say you shouldn't milk free kicks."
"That (staging) for free kicks has always been there - nothing has changed - and every player that has ever played the game will try to milk a free kick if he can, that is normal."