Past #26: Tarryn Thomas [Part III] - [C.Twomey] AFL rules TT is eligible to play in all competitions as of 14 October

[the big lebowski]

I hope any suspension isn’t a suspension from being at the club.

 

[giantroo]

 

[Colby Cheer Squad]

https://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/north-melbourne-bracing-for-afl-integrity-department-ruling-on-tarryn-thomas/news-story/eda664e35ba67fa523a68d1e02ddc870

If you're going to come on here and post news about our club, the least you could do is offer Murdoch tabloids paywalls the respect they deserve and post the full article.

 

[Jirik13]

If you're going to come on here and post news about our club, the least you could do is offer Murdoch tabloids paywalls the respect they deserve and post the full article.

Not allowed by admins - against rules. Sorry to give you update when we will actually know what's happening. You're right somebody else (North supporter) did it anyway. It's a public thread but it will not happen again.

 

[krakouers]

If you're going to come on here and post news about our club, the least you could do is offer Murdoch tabloids paywalls the respect they deserve and post the full article.

Gotta give Jirik13 credit though, beating giantroo is a pretty good accomplishment

 

[Colby Cheer Squad]

Not allowed by admins - against rules. Sorry to give you update when we will actually know what's happening. You're right somebody else (North supporter) did it anyway. It's a public thread but it will not happen again.

Your admins might respect scumbag right wing media owners but nobody here does. Have at it.

 

[Engimal v3]

Sounds like he's absolutely rooted from how the reports are reading. Have any of the allegations been leaked? I'm not caught up

 

[krakouers]

https://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/north-melbourne-bracing-for-afl-integrity-department-ruling-on-tarryn-thomas/news-story/eda664e35ba67fa523a68d1e02ddc870?amp&nk=b3e8b4f7589b12d2c68032e0aae2d4d9-170746

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North Melbourne bracing for AFL integrity department ruling on Tarryn Thomas

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Tarryn Thomas

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Tarryn Thomas

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25

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190cm

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Mid

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11.0

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5.3

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4.0

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3.8

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1.3

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has been away from North Melbourne for weeks following fresh allegations against the midfielder, but the Kangaroos are bracing to be without him for longer, with a ruling set to be handed down early next week.

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Spoiler: Full Article

Jon Ralph

February 9, 2024
News Corp Australia Sports Newsroom

Thomas has been training away from North Melbourne teammates after another set of allegations over inappropriate behaviour was made to the AFL by a female in January.
The talented midfielder faced a series of allegations of threatening conduct towards women early last season and twice spent time away from Arden Street.
It is understood that the latest inquiry is close to being finalised and could result in the AFL stepping in to penalise Thomas this time, after the Roos were forced to act last season.
If the allegations were proven the league would be forced to suspend Thomas given his previous issues and the AFL’s strong stance on respect towards women.
Last year he was initially charged with threatening to distribute an intimate image of another person, with the charge then downgraded by prosecutors to using a carriage service to harass someone.

Tarryn Thomas

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Tarryn Thomas

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25

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190cm

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83kg

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11.0

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5.3

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5.7

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3.3

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0.9

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D

7.8

2star

K

4.0

1star

HB

3.8

3star

M

1.3

1star

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3.2

4star

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0.2

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12.8

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K

6.2

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leaves AFL House after being interviewed in late January. Picture: Brendan Beckett

Thomas escaped a criminal conviction after being granted a diversion and was ordered to pay $1000 to charity.
The league’s integrity department spoke to Thomas in the presence of his lawyer and manager on January 29 about the most recent allegations as they probed the Roos star about their substance.
The AFL takes its respect and responsibility code extremely seriously, with Thomas aware he was on his last chance after the seriousness of last year’s allegations.
He was suspended by the Roos last February over “serious and confronting” threats of violence towards women, with more females then coming forward to detail allegations in subsequent weeks.
In March 2023 the club again stood down Thomas after they judged he had failed to make progress in his respectful behaviour program.
Football boss Todd Viney said at the time that in football a player can “behave yourself in or behave yourself out” of the game, demanding “significant traction in this area” from Thomas.

But when he was spared conviction his lawyer said he had taken part in offending programs, social media training and engaged a psychiatrist.

Thomas is in the last season of a highly lucrative contract and the Roos had hoped he might find maturity and then have a long and productive career at Arden Street.

He had considered requesting a trade after meeting with clubs including Essendon last off-season, but instead decided to honour his contract with the Roos

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[spurs]

Bye Tarryn

 

[TennisPlayerAndy]

‘Severity of the allegations…’

Give me a spell.

 

[Samsquanch]

It is understood that the latest inquiry is close to being finalised and could result in the AFL stepping in to penalise Thomas this time, after the Roos were forced to act last season.
If the allegations were proven the league would be forced to suspend Thomas given his previous issues and the AFL’s strong stance on respect towards women

Ralph writing that as if he knows something (or wants readers to think he does).

If he knows something then the AFL have still got a serious leaking issue.

If he knows nothing then Ralph is just a sh!t stirrer, although I suppose 90% of punters are probably making the same sort of guess about outcomes.

I just hope this isn't media trying to engineer an outcome.

 

[Kanga Glory]

Ralph writing that as if he knows something (or wants readers to think he does).

If he knows something then the AFL have still got a serious leaking issue.

If he knows nothing then Ralph is just a sh!t stirrer, although I suppose 90% of punters are probably making the same sort of guess about outcomes.

I just hope this isn't media trying to engineer an outcome.

This fukcwit is known as the truck ( and hates it). He will make a comment like this then say the complete opposite when the outcome is advised. Classic 50/50 have no idea ,click bait don't care about the individual who he makes this siht up about. Maybe the herald sun should be waiting for the outcome instead of this peanut writing this

 

[Horace]

Not allowed by admins - against rules. Sorry to give you update when we will actually know what's happening. You're right somebody else (North supporter) did it anyway. It's a public thread but it will not happen again.

Rubbish. krakouers didn't have a problem. It goes on all the time

 

[danj]

I’m on Tarryns side, simply cannot believe that there haven’t been multiple much worse things happening within the AFL and clubs that get routinely cleared up and escape notice, he may not be an angel but he’s been unfortunate enough to get on the wrong side of people who are very good at playing the media. North clearly need a Mr Wolf, then this stuff never happened

 

[shinboner magic]

 

[krakouers]

Rubbish. krakouers didn't have a problem. It goes on all the time

Krakouers is no long able to post, at all

Sincerely

Bigfooty Grammar Police… Force

 

[gokangas]

As I said - the rumours I hear are that the suspension will be significant. I am told there has been consideration to deregistering him for a period of time and finalising the actual penalty is what is delaying the announcement. Just saying what I hear. I don't know the actual details of the allegations but the rumblings are they are very serious. I suppose we will know early next week.

 

[Engimal v3]

As I said - the rumours I hear are that the suspension will be significant. I am told there has been consideration to deregistering him for a period of time and finalising the actual penalty is what is delaying the announcement. Just saying what I hear. I don't know the actual details of the allegations but the rumblings are they are very serious. I suppose we will know early next week.

Cut him loose mother goose
(if true)

 

[gokangas]

Cut him loose mother goose
(if true)

Wait and see what the allegations are - I'm not sure what will be made public.

 

[Engimal v3]

Wait and see what the allegations are - I'm not sure what will be made public.

Xander McGuire will have the scoop

 

[Dan]

Wait and see what the allegations are - I'm not sure what will be made public.

Can’t be good if he’s getting a lengthy suspension.

 

[speedy]

Unless Tarryn confessed that he was totally in the wrong during his ‘interview’, this whole process is a farce.

 

[shinboner magic]

 

[CBSlogger]

Funny isn't it? That America's national day celebrates kicking the English out of America, and India's national day celebrates kicking the English out of India, but Australia's national day celebrates the English arriving in Australia. Funny probably isn't the right word. Sad might be a better way to sum it up.

Ironic you've reclassified a distinct similarity as a point a difference.

This is a frustrating misconception. Like the US and India referenced above, Australia Day also has roots in our independence from a colonial past. January 26th is a seminal moment in Australian history but not for the reasons mainstream media would have you think.

On Jan 26th 1949, Australian citizenship became a thing.... we were no longer just British Subjects. Not insignifcantly but in what seems to have been erased from the current narrative, Aborigines we're from that same date protected as they hadn't been before; now also recognised as 'Australians' by the British.

Be wary of your sources.

Anywho, I hope Taz is innocent and the AFL deem as much very fn soon. Regardless, the process is a bloody farce.

 

[R00StaR]

I understand people 'want an answer', but having managed a professional standards unit in a large organisation, I can assure those interested that these things rarely run on time. Causes for delay are long and varied, but include:

a. the investigator asking the complainant for further and better particulars
b. providing the subject of the complaint the opportunity to respond to those further particulars
c. a request(s) from the complainant or the subject of the complaint for extensions of time (the reasons for which might be many and varied, eg, illness)
d. referral of findings to external legal opinion to ensure those findings are properly based, and 'will stand up'

Complexities like these are much more likely to be in play than any ulterior motive of the AFL to spin the process out (and in any event, I can't see what such a motive might be)

Agree which imp mean the delay bodes well for TT. If they need more information from complainant, then they clearly dont have enough to warrant a penalty. There are also optics at play that they must not be seen to rushing to a no charge finding.