Past #1: Majak Daw [Part II] - 54 NM games/43 NM goals - delisted end '20 - SSP selection for MFC '21 - retired mid-'22

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roos_fanatic08 said:
Less than 6 weeks out with a torn pec? that must be some sort of record?

Isn't it usually a 12-16 week injury?
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last time when he did it in 2020 he recovered from it in 8 weeks i believe.

The club should seriously get in his ear of getting him back on the vfl list next year with a club role also.
 
 
Good to see Majak's boy in the Roo gear.


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1. Majak Daw. Harder than ***
. Refugee
. Knocked out 1st game
. Found innocent
. Suicide attempt
. Found his way back
 
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Former AFL player Majak Daw could face jail time over driving charges​

Former North Melbourne player Majak Daw has fronted court over another driving charge which could see him face time behind bars.

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March 29, 2023 - 2:53PM

Former AFL player Majak Daw could face jail as he revealed he will not challenge allegations he was caught behind the wheel on a suspended licence twice in a month.

The ex-Demon and North Melbourne ruckman had been ordered off the road for three months in September 2021 after accumulating too many demerit points for traffic infringements.

But the Herald Sun can reveal he was stopped by officers on two occasions during the suspension period.

Just days before it was due to expire, Prahran Highway Patrol officers found him in the driver’s seat when intercepting his vehicle on Dandenong Rd, St Kilda East, about 7.30pm on December 16.

Daw, 32, fronted Melbourne Magistrates Court on Wednesday charged with a single count of driving while suspended.

Police did not lay the charge against him until October.

Sporting a suit and tie and sitting in the front row, Daw gave no explanation as to why he flouted the law a month after he had been stopped by police in Windsor for similar offending.
In June last year, he was spared a conviction and fined $1200 after he pleaded guilty to driving an unregistered vehicle while suspended in Windsor on November 19, 2021.

Daw is now facing a higher penalty given it is his second offence, with the maximum punishment a magistrate could dish out being up to two years imprisonment.

He could also have his licence cancelled, and cop a hefty fine.

Defence lawyer John Marquis told the court Daw would be pleading guilty at the next hearing in May.

But he successfully asked for an adjournment of the plea as he needed more time to obtain “reference material”.

Mr Marquis batted up “impressive” character references from AFL heavyweights, including Demons’ general manager of AFL football performance, Alan Richardson, in Daw’s case last year.

On that occasion, he argued Daw’s driving while suspended was an “innocent mistake” as he had not received the suspension notice because he had failed to update his address with authorities.

But he cannot make the same argument for the December offending, because police had brought to Daw’s attention his licence was suspended when stopping him a month earlier.

A week after last year’s court appearance, Daw announced his retirement from the AFL.

He finished his 13-year footy career playing for Melbourne Football Club, but was most noted for his time with North Melbourne.

In 2020, Daw donned the Kangaroos’ guernsey for an inspirational return to the field after overcoming mental health battles, and severe injuries he suffered in a fall from the Bolte Bridge in 2018.
 

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I think you’d be surprised how many people drive with either their license suspended or in fact no license at all.

I was talking to a lovely guy who told me his wife had crashed his car while dropping the kids off to school. She had go into a roundabout and panicked when someone beeped the horn at her. He’d had to get the other driver to agree he was driving over the phone as his wife in fact had no license (and they wanted to claim the insurance). Beggars belief.
 
I just had my license suspended for two years thru no *en fault of my own. Finally got onto someone from revenue nsw the other day who overturned the suspension in a minute.

Dunno what was wrong with other people in that place or their bloody website.

It was a massive PITA. Couldn't work properly, couldn't go anywhere. Stepped down as captain of a fire brigade cos I couldn't get to call outs.

I did drive but only on my road and a couple of others that were dirt roads in the middle of nowehere and never had cops on them. (Except for the morning there were 50 cars, feds and NSW and Qld state coppers next door. As well as campaigners walking around with assault rifles and combat shotties in all black with gas masks and balaclavas.) What a nightmare trying to sort this s**t out has been.
 
Majak was at training today with his son Hendrix

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So glad to see him back around the club.

Glad he seems to be loving family life.
 
Majak Daw catches tram to Arden St.
 

Majak Daw, former AFL player, avoids jail after driving while suspended​

Ex-AFL star Majak Daw is heading back to court on drink driving charges only days after a magistrate fined the footballer for driving without a licence.

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May 15, 2023 - 12:58PM

Embattled former AFL player Majak Daw has been banned from getting behind the wheel after being charged with drink driving.
The ex-Demon and North Melbourne ruckman allegedly blew over the blood alcohol limit when his vehicle was intercepted by members of Brimbank’s proactive policing unit in February.

He is expected to front Melbourne Magistrates Court on Wednesday over his latest alleged snub at the road rules.

The fact he had been charged again by police was revealed as he faced the same court on Monday where he avoided jail and was slapped with a $1000 fine after admitting to driving while suspended.

The court heard police uncovered Daw, 32, was unlicensed when they stopped his vehicle on Dandenong Rd, St Kilda East, about 7.30pm on December 16, 2021.

It was the second time in a month he had been intercepted by police for driving without a licence.

Defence lawyer John Marquis said Daw was “upfront” with the officers when stopped and quickly confessed he knew his licence was suspended.

Mr Marquis said Daw had first become aware his licence was suspended due to too many demerit points from traffic infringements when his vehicle was intercepted in Windsor a month earlier on November 19.

He said the ex-footballer was booked on summons on that occasion and made to leave his car behind and find another way home.

But it was when he went to collect the car – just six days out from his licence suspension ending – that he was randomly stopped by police again.

“He made a foolish decision to go pick it up,” Mr Marquis said.

When Daw faced court last year over the November intercept, Mr Marquis argued his client had moved house and failed to update his address, scoring him a $1200 fine without conviction for the “innocent mistake”.

This time Mr Marquis spoke to Daw’s “good character” and how he became the first Sudanese professional AFL player having moved to Australia when he was young.

“He’s well regarded and certainly well known,” Mr Marquis said, adding how he is a mentor to schoolchildren and does “lots” of community work in the western suburbs.

After retiring from his 13-year AFL career last year, Daw now plays for Northern Football League club North Heidelberg, he said.

But Mr Marquis did concede Daw had the pending criminal charges for further traffic offences, including drinking driving.

He is yet to enter a plea to those allegations.

Given it was his second driving while suspended offence in a short period, it was expected he would face a higher penalty, including possible jail time or a licence disqualification.

But judicial registrar Lisa Rees said the fact the offending was “demerit point-related” she would spare him a conviction and issue him the four-figure fine.

She did not make any further order against his licence, noting it was currently suspended due to the pending charges he has before the court.

“Please ensure in future your address is updated,” Ms Rees warned Daws, before freeing him from the courtroom.
 
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