Adelaide skipper Mark Ricciuto will miss Saturday night's qualifying final against St Kilda and his hopes of winning a second Brownlow Medal have been dashed after he decided on Monday to accept a one-match ban from the match review panel for his clash with West Coast youngster Adam Selwood.The Crows would have risked being without their best player for at least two matches had they decided to challenge the ban as only an early plea and Ricciuto's previous clean playing record enabled him to accept a one-match ban.Ricciuto was reported for rough conduct and Selwood had to taken from the field on a stretcher after the Adelaide skipper's bump caught the young Eagle in the head.The match review panel assessed the incident as negligent conduct, high impact, in play and high contact - equating to a total of 325 points or a three-match ban, which was reduced to 182.81 points or just a one-match ban after Ricciuto's previous good record and his early plea was taken into account.Adelaide football operations manager John Reid said Ricciuto had decided himself not to contest the charge, which means he will be available for either a preliminary final in a fortnight's time or the following week's semi-finals depending on how Adelaide perform without him on Saturday night.“Mark has decided to accept the suspension and the club supports his decision,” Reid said.The 2003 Brownlow Medallist, who was also one of the favourites for this year's award prior to Saturday, admitted it would be tough missing out on the start of the finals.“I’m disappointed that I can’t lead the side in the first week of the finals,” the Adelaide skipper said.“But I’m also keen to get on with it and make sure I support the boys this week and I’m ready to play the next final.”Disappointment in September is nothing new to Ricciuto, who missed the Crows' first premiership win in 1997 with a groin injury but he did play in Adelaide's last premiership success the following season.However while Ricciuto will miss the qualifying final against St Kilda, he can still count himself lucky he did not receive a heavier penalty from the match review panel.The match review panel pointed out in its findings that it took Selwood's condition into account when assessing the extent of the impact but it still chose to rate the impact as high rather than severe while it also chose to only describe Ricciuto's conduct as negligent rather than reckless.Had the panel chosen reckless conduct and severe impact, Ricciuto would have been issued with a five-match suspension, which would have been reduced to three due to his good record and by pleading guilty but that would have still left him unavailable for nearly the entire finals series.St Kilda coach Grant Thomas admitted on Monday the Crows would miss their inspirational skipper on Saturday night."In a final you want your best players playing and he is a great captain," Thomas said of Ricciuto.However Thomas said he wouldn't have been disappointed if Ricciuto had been cleared even though his absence definitely increases the Saints' chances of winning and progressing straight to a home preliminary final."Personally I have great enormous respect for Mark Ricciuto, he epitomises what footy is all about because he is hard, tough and aggressive and he has been doing it for years,' Thomas said."Ideally you would want him to play because that is what finals footy is all about and we want to measure ourselves against the best."