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  1. ReturningHawk

    Umpiring Nick Foot reporting Zak Butters for abusive language

    How old am I? …old enough that I don’t appreciate you downplaying homophobia? If you’re asking where you’re doing it, it’s right there in your comment. Your comment questions whether Zak’s words were more insulting than Collard’s. It’s exactly your behaviour that allows homophobic people to...
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    Umpiring Nick Foot reporting Zak Butters for abusive language

    Yeah, you think I’m going to waste my time debating someone who is trying this hard to defend homophobia? Get in the bin.
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    Umpiring Nick Foot reporting Zak Butters for abusive language

    It’s only in the AfL tribunal that Occam’s razor holds no sway. The only coherent explanation was that Butters said something without any malice, and was heard and interpreted by Nick Foot as a direct attack. Without the evidence of the audio to allow the tribunal to judge the wording and tone...
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    Umpiring Nick Foot reporting Zak Butters for abusive language

    Nor should it. Stop defending homophobia.
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    Umpiring Nick Foot reporting Zak Butters for abusive language

    If this was Butters’ second time in front of the tribunal for disrespectful comments made to an umpire, we might entertain a comparison. The circumstances and what was at stake for the player is totally different. This is essentially the end of Collard’s career, whereas Butters is a million...
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    Preview Round 6, 2026: Hawks V Port, 4.15pm Saturday 18th April, Marvel Stadium

    They released the audio, it’s absolutely useless. Don’t know if I care for the conspiracy angle here but decision to drag everyone’s name through the mud to uphold a $1500 fine was an all-time stinker of a call. Drop the charge and organise one zoom call between Zak, Greg Swann and the umpire...
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    Verbal Faux Pas, Jargon, Cliches, Boganisms, etc

    “Thus conscience does make cowards of us all, to be fair”
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    Preview Round 6, 2026: Hawks V Port, 4.15pm Saturday 18th April, Marvel Stadium

    Clearly I should’ve used orange font. Of course Butters isn’t lying. Neither of them are. Simple misunderstanding that has gone way too far
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    Verbal Faux Pas, Jargon, Cliches, Boganisms, etc

    “To be fair” is also one that can apparently mean anything. “They kicked 3 goals to 2 in that quarter, to be fair”.
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    Umpiring Nick Foot reporting Zak Butters for abusive language

    You’re plumbing the depths there. One of these issues incites violence and suicide in our society and the other is about organised sport. Go and get an education before you post more rubbish like this.
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    Umpiring Nick Foot reporting Zak Butters for abusive language

    Can only assume the Port lawyers threw the case knowing they’d get paid double for the appeal? I don’t know how they didn’t get him off. The flimsiest case we’ve ever heard at the tribunal.
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    Umpiring Nick Foot reporting Zak Butters for abusive language

    Those who believe Butters, seconds after a free kick was paid, would deliver a sarcastic remark about umpire corruption to the umpire himself within earshot of a teammate, then immediately lie about it, believing his teammate would back him up in a cover-up, go on tv afterwards to carefully sow...
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    Preview Round 6, 2026: Hawks V Port, 4.15pm Saturday 18th April, Marvel Stadium

    Lol exactly. Was worth every bit of this rigmarole to ensure that the entire world is aware that Nick Foot works for sportsbet, and that Zak Butters is a compulsive liar.
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    Umpiring Nick Foot reporting Zak Butters for abusive language

    The problem is that it also doesn’t sound like “how much are they paying you?”, so in the end I really think the audio counts for nothing, which should’ve occurred to the AFL prior to sanctioning the report. They have to prove that Zak insulted and umpire and then lied about it, putting his...
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    Preview Round 6, 2026: Hawks V Port, 4.15pm Saturday 18th April, Marvel Stadium

    Not many people mentioning Scrimshaw in for Perez. I know we don’t like to change a winning line-up but it’ll be another interesting one. Perez has that big tank which gives him the ability to fill more than one role, which is like your golden ticket into our best 23 at the minute.
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