There will be a fitness watch on Scott Pendlebury for AFL wildcard round after the Magpie was forced out of Collingwood's game with Brisbane before halftime.
AFL luminary Eddie McGuire did not hold back in April when the AFL announced a new-look illicit drugs policy aimed at closing loopholes and providing harsher sanctions.
Sydney have vehemently denied representatives of the club, apart from the five players banned for the remainder of the AFL season, were in the Melbourne hotel room at the centre of a police investigation.
Sydney’s AFLW captain Lucy McEvoy says she wants to be a part of any reintegration discussions for the five male players banned over a police investigation but insists the club remains united.
The lawyer representing two of three women at the centre of a police investigation involving five Swans says the women were subjected to ‘the most disgusting actions’ he has seen in his legal career.
Sydney captain Callum Mills says the five players stood down for the rest of the season have ‘let the club down’ and that he fully supports the sanctions handed down.
Sydney have denied representatives of the club, apart from the five currently-listed players named, were in the room at a Melbourne hotel at the centre of a police investigation.
The AFL sending an email to clubs suggesting they can not rest players this weekend and quoting a rule is just absolute nonsense, writes Matthew Richardson.
Sydney Swans chairman Andrew Pridham and CEO Matthew Pavlich have penned a letter to the club’s community after standing down five star players while Police investigate a sexual assault.