Analysis A look back at the longest suspensions in AFL football.

[Meteoric Rise]

An interesting list headed by Stephen Dank's life ban.
In the future will deliberate concussions be worth 20 weeks?
Quite possibly imo.

Suspensions​

VFL/AFL records​

Longest suspension
Qualification - 20 matches

Player / Administrator	Charges	Season	Matches suspended	Club	Notes
Stephen Dank	34 x Doping	2016	Life	Essendon	[22]
Doug Fraser	Bribery	1910	99	Carlton
Alex Lang	Bribery	1910	99	Carlton
Fred Rutley	2 × kicking, 3 × striking and melee involvement	1925	89	North Melbourne	1
Bill Burns	Kicking	1909	46	Richmond	1
George Topping	Striking	1910	35	Carlton
Bert Franks	Abusing and threatening an umpire	1910	33	South Melbourne	1
Tommy Downs	Kicking	1931	29	Carlton
Percy Sheehan	Striking and melee involvement	1910	28	Carlton
Jack Shorten	Striking and melee involvement	1910	28	Collingwood
Elijah Taylor	Breach of AFL COVID protocols and bringing the game into disrepute	2020 and 2021	28	Sydney/none	2
Arthur Coghlan	Striking and melee involvement	1925	26	Geelong
Stan Thomas	Elbowing, striking and melee involvement	1925	26	Geelong
Dan Keily	Sustained abuse of umpire	1917	24

Arthur Ford	Abusing and threatening umpire	1910	23	Carlton
Wally Warden	Kicking	1928	22	Footscray
Ben Cousins	Bringing the game into disrepute	2007	22	none	3
Jaidyn Stephenson	Gambling on AFL matches	2019	22	Collingwood	4
Tom Baxter	Striking and melee involvement	1910	21	Collingwood	5
Ted Whitfield	Attempting to strike an umpire, abusing an umpire and 2 × misconduct	1945	21	South Melbourne
Dick Condon	Sustained abuse of umpire	1900	20	Collingwood	1
Billy Gent	3 × Striking	1904	20	South Melbourne
George Holden	Striking	1911	20	Fitzroy
Peter Reville	3 × Striking	1934	20	South Melbourne
Phil Carman	Striking and headbutting umpire	1980	20	Essendon
Chris Appleton	Gambling on AFL matches	2010	20	Goal umpire
Wayne Siekman	Gambling on AFL matches	2010	20	Interchange steward
John Wise	Gambling on AFL matches	2010	20	Interchange

Right. So the highest penalty ever given for a single on field act was given to Billy Burns. A Richmond player. Never change Tribunal, never change.

If you play for Footscray and you kick someone, 22 weeks.

If you play for Carlton and you kick someone. 29 weeks.

But if you play for Richmond and you probably didn’t kick anyone, you get the usual Richmond premium, 46 weeks.

But the most brutal suspension ever was surely the this one:

50 years of MCG memories: The Crowe- Nicholls incident

In the fourth of a special richmondfc.com.au nostalgic series celebrating Richmond’s 50 years at home at the MCG, Tony Greenberg looks at the controversial Neville Crowe-John Nicholls incident during the 1967 second semi-final.

www.richmondfc.com.au

An actual good bloke with an actual clean record gets stitched right up by the filthy mongrel cheating lying Blues, with a Blue man sitting on the Tribunal, and as a result misses out on playing in a Premiership. Don’t ever wonder why Richmond despises Carlton.

 

[Aristotle Pickett]

Right. So the highest penalty ever given for a single on field act was given to Billy Burns. A Richmond player. Never change Tribunal, never change.

If you play for Footscray and you kick someone, 22 weeks.

If you play for Carlton and you kick someone. 29 weeks.

But if you play for Richmond and you probably didn’t kick anyone, you get the usual Richmond premium, 46 weeks.

But the most brutal suspension ever was surely the this one:

50 years of MCG memories: The Crowe- Nicholls incident

In the fourth of a special richmondfc.com.au nostalgic series celebrating Richmond’s 50 years at home at the MCG, Tony Greenberg looks at the controversial Neville Crowe-John Nicholls incident during the 1967 second semi-final.

www.richmondfc.com.au

An actual good bloke with an actual clean record gets stitched right up by the filthy mongrel cheating lying Blues, with a Blue man sitting on the Tribunal, and as a result misses out on playing in a Premiership. Don’t ever wonder why Richmond despises Carlton.

That Neville Crowe suspension was a black mark on football set up by future fraudster John Nicholls.

 

[HAPPY CHEFFY]

But if you play for Richmond and you probably didn’t kick anyone, you get the usual Richmond premium, 46 weeks.

Oh boy there it is, the tigers persecution complex.

#alwaysthevictims

 

[Meteoric Rise]

Oh boy there it is, the tigers persecution complex.

#alwaysthevictims

It’s more a persecution simplex than a persecution complex. We are simply persecuted and always have been.

 

[revo333]

Yes he hasn't been the same since then.

Tom Stewarts fault.

 

[HAPPY CHEFFY]

It’s more a persecution simplex than a persecution complex. We are simply persecuted and always have been.

i reckon there is alot to this game that has really touched a nerve with Richmond fans.

It was the sort of high pressure intensity game that historically they would have run all over us in the past. This time they didn’t. It showed that they are not what they once were, and probably showcased it in emphatic fashion with us rolling them from 17 points down in the last in an epic MCG nail biter.

I think it served as a reality check they are not what they once were, and the tables have turned. We broke the fairytale ideology I think was beginning to build about some premiership resurgence they believed was occurring, and it was a big thud they didn’t see coming. Arrogantly they all believed they would steamroll us and it didn’t go at all to plan.

The whole prestia KO thing is a bit of a way to vent steam for the fact above

 

[Meteoric Rise]

i reckon there is alot to this game that has really touched a nerve with Richmond fans.

It was the sort of high pressure intensity game that historically they would have run all over us in the past. This time they didn’t. It showed that they are not what they once were, and probably showcased it in emphatic fashion with us rolling them from 17 points down in the last in an epic MCG nail biter.

I think it served as a reality check they are not what they once were, and the tables have turned. We broke the fairytale ideology I think was beginning to build about some premiership resurgence they believed was occurring, and it was a big thud they didn’t see coming. Arrogantly they all believed they would steamroll us and it didn’t go at all to plan.

The whole prestia KO thing is a bit of a way to vent steam for the fact above

Those are interesting thoughts to express on a thread right after Tom Stewart has re-proven that the spirit of arch-thugs Arthur Coghlan and Stanley Thomas lives on in perpetuity.

So you have only now realised that we are not quite as good as we were when we used dumfounded Geelong teams as launchpads as we moonwalked over you to our 3 recent flags. And you are deliriously happy about it I see. Allow me to let you in on a little secret. There are about 10 other clubs you will not trouble any time after August.

Even if you knock out one of their key players early, get unlimited fellatio supply from Brad Scott’s flouro army, and they effectively have 4 of their best players missing and 3 kids 19 or under running around, and you have your home crowd in the house. .

Saturday was a casual spa Cryo. September is bare knuckles. Not your go mate.

 

[Lavender Bushranger]

I wonder what the details of 'Sustained Umpire Abuse' was?

Copping 20 weeks it! F**K, must have been one hell of a spray.


I remember Craig O'Brien followed one home after a ressies game once and 'intimidated' him - but I don't think he even copped close to that.

 

[Meteoric Rise]

I wonder what the details of 'Sustained Umpire Abuse' was?

Copping 20 weeks it! F**K, must have been one hell of a spray.


I remember Craig O'Brien followed one home after a ressies game once and 'intimidated' him - but I don't think he even copped close to that.

Dick Condom must have dressed the ump in a gimp suit and given him a proper going over. .

 

[HAPPY CHEFFY]

Those are interesting thoughts to express on a thread right after Tom Stewart has re-proven that the spirit of arch-thugs Arthur Coghlan and Stanley Thomas lives on in perpetuity.

So you have only now realised that we are not quite as good as we were when we used dumfounded Geelong teams as launchpads as we moonwalked over you to our 3 recent flags. And you are deliriously happy about it I see. Allow me to let you in on a little secret. There are about 10 other clubs you will not trouble any time after August.

Even if you knock out one of their key players early, get unlimited fellatio supply from Brad Scott’s flouro army, and they effectively have 4 of their best players missing and 3 kids 19 or under running around, and you have your home crowd in the house. .

Saturday was a casual spa Cryo. September is bare knuckles. Not your go mate.

You lot were found out to be soft as f**k! Not a single tiger flew the flag for Prestia!!

Did your players agree there wasn’t much in it ( not so much as the hysterics coming from Richmond bandwagoners atm) or is he just not very liked at Punt Rd?

NO ONE WENT IN TO BAT FOR PRESTIA!

#concerning

 

[HAPPY CHEFFY]

There are about 10 other clubs you will not trouble any time after August.

10 clubs? Are they top 10 right now or even looking at finals?

Would you care to list them with 8 rounds left?

 

[RAPPA]

Big bans: What have been the longest suspensions this century?

As Tom Stewart prepares to face the Tribunal, we look at some of the longest recent suspensions

www.afl.com.au

Someone is taking their ideas from BF it seems

 

[Rabish Binney]

He got a lazy 7 years on appeal after getting 10 years and 16 games Initially.

'Gotta get the boy off'

 

[PT Bar None]

How many did Brereton cop for that time he stood on Tallis's head? Imagine if that happened today!