GWS Giants captain Toby Greene’s long rap sheet with the AFL’s match review officer has another page after he was slapped with a one-match ban for crudely elbowing Sydney star Isaac Heeney in the back of the head.

Greene had taken his angry pills for the Friday night clash with crosstown rival Sydney, and he raised eyebrows when he fat-shamed Swans firestarter Tom Papley during a half-time interview.

While the Giants made light of Greene’s “overweight” comment, the MRO did not make light of the incident with Heeney.

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The match review officer graded the incident as intentional conduct, low impact and high contact, resulting in the one-match suspension.

The Swans were on top early and in the first quarter Greene had a free kick reversed against his team, when Heeney had been caught holding the ball.

Heeney was on the ground and in a vulnerable position after he was tackled, when Greene jumped on top of him and dropped his elbow into the back of Heeney’s head.

“Take a look at this vision, because this is going to be the headline probably out of the entire weekend,” said Channel 7 sports reporter Xander McGuire said on Friday night.

“Toby Greene has found himself in hot water with the MRO once again, for an elbow, as you see there, into Isaac Heeney’s head with his arms pinned, not really able to help himself on the ground there.

“So we’ll get the iso angle here ... Toby’s out of the play, and he comes in and just drops the elbow on his head there.”

McGuire said the “MRO’s gonna hate the look of that” and Greene would be in trouble because the act is more than likely going to be graded as “intentional”.

“So first (the MRO) has got to decide whether it’s intentional or careless,” McGuire said.

“I think because the ball is not in play whatsoever there, and there’s no intent from Toby to get the ball, you’re probably looking at an intentional action there.

“It’s obviously head high contact, and then it goes to whether you think it’s low, medium, high, or severe impact, or if the MRO thinks that it is any of those at all.

“So I think, as he drops the elbow in there, it’s not a good look ... and there’s no concussion there for Heeney, which is worth mentioning.

“(But) my view, for what it’s worth, I think it’s probably either a low or a medium, impact on Heeney’s head (and) because it’s intentional (he will be suspended).

“If it was careless, it would be fine, because it’s intentional, (even) if it’s deemed a low (impact), that’s one week for Toby, and that means it’s a massive game that he misses on Friday night next week.”

The Giants have a massive game against arch-rival the Western Bulldogs next Friday, which will go a long way in shaping the top eight.

Greene’s MRO history against the Bulldogs is also interesting, infamous for incidents against former Bulldogs players Luke Dahlhaus and Caleb Daniel.

Fans turned on Greene after the Heeney incident, calling him “dirty” and a “coward”.

“I like Toby Greene but he is 100 per cent a dirty player,” one popular AFL account said.

“I like Greene but this is a non football act & he’s got priors. It’s absolutely 1 week. His intention is to elbow his opponent in the head whilst he’s defenceless on the ground ... pathetic cheap shot act.”

Another fan raged.: “Have a spell Toby you coward!”

And another: “That’s is a malicious, intentional, arm drop into a defenceless players head. If May can get three weeks for a “football incident” what does this warrant? There is no need for this. Poor look again Toby.”

And another: “Once a grub, always a grub.”

Fans were also divided over Greene’s half-time interview, with many believing he “fat-shamed” Papley.

At he start of this year Greene was dubbed the “AFL’s most fined player” after he was sanctioned a total of $11,500 for two separate incidents during his team’s victory over Collingwood.

Greene has been fined well over $40,000 during his time in the AFL but GWS coach Adam Kingsley said he didn’t expect his skipper to be sanctioned for the half-time comment about Papley.

The fat-shaming remark comes after Brisbane veteran Dayne Zorko received a $3000 fine for his foul-mouth tirade towards the officials bench last week.

Port Adelaide coach Ken Hinkley was also fined $20,000 last year for goading Hawthorn players.

“I’d be pretty disappointed if he got fined,” Kingsley said.

“They’re (the players) trying to put each other off, and they’re doing it all within the rules, of course.

“Winners are grinners, and if you’re not, you move on.”

Greene’s halftime antics come after a quiet week — uncharacteristically devoid of banter, at least from the Giants — between the cross-city rivals.

“We don’t need to be winning any verbal battles. We need to be winning the physical battle out in the field,” Kingsley said.

“In the past, we’ve had a bit of back and forth in the media stuff, but we don’t really need that.”

Left to mull over the end of their finals hopes, Sydney counterpart Dean Cox wouldn’t be drawn on Greene’s jibe to Papley.

“I don’t really listen to other players during half-time interviews. There’s always a bit of cheek,” Cox said.

“People, when they speak in the media, generally are really calculated to opposition players.

“Some players push the boundaries a little bit - Toby’s probably one of those.”

GWS move to fifth (13-6) with their sixth consecutive win ahead of the weekend’s clashes, while Sydney languish in 10th (9-10).

- With AAP