The Brisbane Lions' two challenges at the AFL Tribunal have failed.

Harris Andrews will miss the next three games while Darcy Gardiner will miss Round 1 against Sydney this weekend.

The club had already accepted Zac Bailey's one-match ban.

All three players were handed bans by the MRO after their five-point loss to the Western Bulldogs, with Andrews' three-match suspension the heftiest of the lot.

The Lions' co-captain was suspended for a swinging arm on Arty Jones, which concussed the Western Bulldogs small forward on Saturday night.

Andrews will miss the Swans clash as well as showdowns with St Kilda and Collingwood.

This punishment, in the eyes of Kane Cornes, was too harsh and he believes that the All-Australian defender should be given a more lenient punishment.

“I think we have tipped over on the scales of reports and suspensions,” Cornes said on SEN’s Fireball on Monday.

“It’s got to the point where we’ve gone too far.

“Harris Andrews didn’t mean to do that. I’ve heard a lot of people say ‘he turned around and he saw him and he whacked him in the head and wanted to knock him (out)’. No he didn’t.

“It was an unfortunate accident.”