Adelaide will appeal against the three-match ban given to forward Shane McAdam as AFL greats declare the bump officially dead.
Carlton coach Michael Voss says the McAdam verdict leaves no doubt.
"The bump is well and truly done," Voss said.
"What has come out in the wash in the last 48 hours ... if you've got a choice to tackle or bump, then you've got no choice but to choose the tackle."
Geelong's premiership coach Chris Scott concurred.
"Anything that looks like you're trying to pick off an opposition player is the game of yesterday. That's gone," he said.
"The book should be thrown at that sort of thing.
"And the really offensive bump, as well, where you're deliberately trying to pick off a player, is something we're saying to our guys, 'Don't do it'."
As fallout continued from the first-round flashpoint, the Crows on Wednesday were quick to lodge an appeal with the AFL after McAdam expressed disappointment at his three-match suspension.
McAdam was banned for rough conduct for his bump on GWS' Jacob Wehr. An appeal hearing will be held Thursday evening.
"Shane is alright ... he's a good lad and everyone is getting around him," Crows teammate Izak Rankine said.
McAdam's ban follows a two-game suspension for Melbourne's Kysaiah Pickett for a similar bump which felled Western Bulldog Bailey Smith.
The Crows, in their defence at Tuesday night's tribunal hearing, used video of Pickett's hit.
The star Demon accepted a ban and avoided a tribunal hearing, with his bump graded on a lower scale by match review officer Michael Christian.
Tribunal chairman Jeff Gleeson, when announcing McAdam's ban, noted in the Pickett case "there appears to be a slightly more glancing aspect to the impact than occurred here".
"If we are wrong about that, we note that the guidelines say that we are not bound by the examples," Gleeson said.
"And it ought not be assumed that we would necessarily grade impact in the Pickett matter as high impact, and not severe."
Adelaide's dual premiership captain Mark Bickley demanded league hierarchy explain "mind-boggling" inconsistency between the cases.
"Two instances happen, almost identical, and we get different results," Bickley told SEN radio.
"I wouldn't be unhappy if Pickett and McAdam got three (games).
"It's really about consistency ... that is the thing that makes everyone put their hands in the air: how can we have inconsistency between things that happened so close together?"
Adelaide's Tom Duggan QC told the tribunal there was no severe head contact when McAdam chiefly made contact with Wehr's chest and shoulder, dispossessing the Giant of the ball.
"Yes it was a tough bump but ... it was entirely fair," Duggan told the hearing.
Sydney drawcard Lance Franklin was also outed for one match for an opening-round bump.
"As a general rule ... if you've got the option to bump or tackle, you'd much rather tackle," Swans coach John Longmire said.
"But in Lance's situation on the weekend, he didn't have that option."
