Dylan Shiel will miss two matches for the bump that floored North Melbourne’s Curtis Taylor after the Essendon star was unsuccessful in appealing the severity of his suspension at the AFL tribunal on Tuesday night.

The jury agreed with the match review officer’s initial grading of the incident as careless conduct, high contact and high impact, and declared “it was fortunate the consequences were not greater”.

Taylor played out the match after passing a concussion test and scans later cleared him of structural damage.

Shiel tried to plead his case to the jurors on Tuesday night, highlighting his impeccable record.

“I've never committed any offence that would suggest that my attention is on the man before the ball. I'd like to think that I'm a fair player, a clean player, and that I've proven that in my nine-year career until the weekend,” he said.

But after more than an hour and a half, jurors David Neitz, Shane Wakelin and Stephen Jurica determined there was no exceptional or compelling circumstances in Shiel’s case and his two-match remained.

In more bad news for the Bombers, forward Joe Daniher has suffered a setback in his AFL injury rehabilitation, while Conor McKenna will need to clear a fitness test to face the Western Bulldogs this week.

Daniher suffered a minor calf strain while training over the weekend - unrelated to his ongoing groin issues - and will be unable to run for close to two weeks.

“Joe felt some soreness in the calf, we had that imaged (scanned) yesterday which will mean he is off running for about 10 to 14 days,” Essendon head of medical services David Rundle said.

Daniher has played just 11 games since the start of 2018 and none this year.

Meanwhile, McKenna was due for surgery on a fractured hand - suffered against North Melbourne - on Tuesday and will face fitness testing ahead of Friday’s game.

“They’ll insert a plate to reduce that fracture,” Rundle said.

“This week is a tight turnaround so we’ll see how he responds to the operation before we decide whether he can play or not.”