Collingwood recruit Dan Houston faces missing more time for his new club after collecting Carlton’s Lachie Fogarty with a high elbow on Thursday night.

Houston was suspended for Opening Round on the back of a five-game ban from his time with Port Adelaide last year for a bump on Adelaide’s Izak Rankine.

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He is now set to find himself under renewed scrutiny from the match review officer just three games into his Magpies career.

Houston left his feet to bump Fogarty late in the second term at the MCG, with his elbow and upper arm making clear contact with the Blues man as the ball flew over the pair.

The 27-year-old quickly gestured to suggest the hit was accidental but Channel 7 commentators just as swiftly said a ban is on the cards.

“That is a little bit of trouble, there,” Brian Taylor said.

Kane Cornes added: “Big trouble. We know the issues he had last year in the Showdown (on Rankine). That’s big, big trouble.”

Fogarty got back to his feet in what Taylor said was “the only thing in his (Houston’s) favour — but that’s not going to get him off”.

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Nick Riewoldt assessed: “The ball’s not in play, he’s overran it, he’s left the ground — and his elbow’s come out. Depending on what happens with Fogarty now, that’s going to determine how this plays out for Houston.”

But 7NEWS chief football reporter Mitch Cleary, who noted Fogarty was “alert on the bench”, said the potential to cause injury could play a key role in Houston’s fate.

“The fact that he opted to bump, makes contact with the head and breached his duty of car, Dan Houston’s in trouble,” Cleary said.

He said Houston could be looking at one or two weeks on the sidelines, comparing it to Richmond star Tom Lynch’s one-match ban for a bump earlier this season and Kysaiah Pickett’s two-match suspension for a 2023 bump on Bailey Smith.

The man himself disagreed.

“I thought I had fair play on the ball and obviously I’ve got to protect myself when those things happen,” Houston told Channel 7 after the 17-point win.

“I didn’t actually realise it happened. I was fully focused on the team.

“I think it’s such a hard game to play, and especially behind the ball you’ve got to make those split-second decisions when you see the ball coming at you.

“He was in front of me and, yeah, I don’t think there’s anything in it.”

Houston will not face a stronger punishment for his recent poor record, with the AFL match review system no longer taking past incidents into consideration.

Collingwood face Sydney in Adelaide for Gather Round next week before heading north to face reigning premiers Brisbane in a Thursday night blockbuster.

Houston’s hit came towards the end of a fiery first half.

Sam Walsh and Nick Daicos fired up at the end of the opening term, with players coming from all over to join the fray.

Walsh’s Blues took a four-point lead into the main break and he said the rivalry was “absolutely” on show.

“We know what we’re here to do,” he told Channel 7.

“We’ve just got to keep going. It’s reset at half-time, bring that same pressure and intensity. We just want to keep on coming with aggression.”

Carlton lost Lachie Cowan to a hamstring injury in the first quarter, with substitute Ashton Moir quickly called into action.