Sydney Stack Discussion

[cairo tiger]

Because women shouldn’t wear provocative outfits or they have it coming. Just like these boys, fancy being 20, locked up for months and the one opportunity you get drunk and go out until 3.30am. It’s their own fault they got assaulted you see.
I’m going to assault myself next time I’m out at 330am. It’s the only way I’ll learn

Oh dear

 

[Del65166]

Don’t be an enabler. I hope they both get sent home from the hub. What happens after that? Depends on these two ******* geniuses.

I think I warned a fair few of you Syd’s work ethic away from the club is shithouse.


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Work ethic is the 'the way a person works'. I think I have an excellent work ethic. It seemed like Stack worked hard last year, & got himself into the team. He seemed didn't come back to the club fit after COVID. He is then dropped after poor on field performance which is terrible for everyone, given what we know of his talent. A footballer's job is to be fit for football 24/7.
If Stack & CJ had've returned to the hub at 4AM drunk and caught by someone there then they would've been in this exact same trouble. Stack has to work on lots of things. I was hoping that being in an elite professional sporting environment would've been enough.
Cotchin/Sidebottom/Buckley/Taylor: a lot of people much older and wiser than Syd have f***d up.

 

[DickieKnee]

Club fined $100,000 for next year ....could lose some good football dept people...
May have to let Balmy go...

Just cut the Monte Carlos out of the budget. Fixed.

 

[Del65166]

The leagues perspective yes.
What’s the state government got to do with it? I still don’t understand that. The players serve quarantine outside of the hub so they not? Therefore the only chance of AFL players getting Covid is from the outer. The general public. How were the players any different from the drunk that assaulted them other than being regularly tested, tracked and relatively isolated?

The AFL(NRL) & QLD & WA govts agreed that players would abide by an agreed standard of behaviour that was way stricter than what is imposed on their own people. 10 NRL players got fined $140K for having lunch in Brisbane. Qld still has closed borders due to COVID in Vic & NSW. AFL players are privileged. I live 30 or 40 kms from the Qld border & a lot of people use Gold Coast medical facilities. But if you live more than one Shire away from the border ~ the bubble ~ you are in a COVID hotspot and have to 14 day quarantine. But I know woman about to have a child, works outside the bubble. Had it all booked for a hospital on the G/coast, had to massively change plans.
Qld'ers love Paluschek for the tough stance and looks like she's gunna be reelected. There have been incidents where, during childbirth a mother was sent to Sydney instead of the G/coast ~ from Lismore and the child died. Paluschek copped plenty and has softened a couple of restrictions. Plus she gets the 'its not fair how come the AFL players are allowed in from dirty old Melbourne and us people are being denied life saving medical treatment?"

All this footy getting played one hour away ~ but I'd have to lie to get in.

 

[Del65166]

Anyone else notice this add at the top of page? Bigfooty has a sense of humour or that is just coincidentally funnyView attachment 953581

Any time I see a dewalt I think of Snoop on The wire

 

[Del65166]

Chol was in his workplace. These guys were at the strippers in the early hours of the morning. Thats not victim blaming, its not their fault that some tool wanted to feel like a big man and target some footballers, but there is clearly a difference between those two incidents which is based on the reality of the situations, not just hyperbolic, hypocritical media coverage.

Chol? Now Stack is into dancing so maybe he was doing some research?

 

[_RT_]

Both boys very lucky to still be at the club IMO. Be interesting to see how they react to the situation. Do they go about earning the trust back through hard work or do they opt for the run away option and ask for trades back home and a fresh start.

I hope both knuckle down and repay the faith shown in them by the club and supporters.

 

[DickieKnee]

The leagues perspective yes.
What’s the state government got to do with it? I still don’t understand that. The players serve quarantine outside of the hub so they not? Therefore the only chance of AFL players getting Covid is from the outer. The general public. How were the players any different from the drunk that assaulted them other than being regularly tested, tracked and relatively isolated?

The queensland state government negociated with the AFL to come up with the hub concept and rules. Without them doing that the AFL season would have been called off months ago.

 

[SunshineBoy]

Both boys very lucky to still be at the club IMO. Be interesting to see how they react to the situation. Do they go about earning the trust back through hard work or do they opt for the run away option and ask for trades back home and a fresh start.

I hope both knuckle down and repay the faith shown in them by the club and supporters.

some people are saying it will make the rest of the squad tighter, is this our Willie Rioli moments, a stupid act spoilt the whiners a tilt at a flag?

it could go either way, it’s now we will see our leaders, because the media will smash this until grand final day , all the others breaches will be forgotten , apart from mrs cotech, the narrative has been about the poor culture at the Richmond Football club, about fines, about suspensions etc.

it could galvanise the group , but it could also go the other way with some players saying it’s all too hard

thats my 20 cents worth.


are we better off without them?

 

[Del65166]

Some of what the AFL is up against...apparent favouritism with regard to q'tine rules

 

[Tiger_Of_Old]

So now Ralph reckons there is unrest within the playing group with the "Favoured" treatment of the Cotchins.lol


on Ralph: Richmond’s off-field distractions in Gold Coast bubble have turned into soap opera
The COVID-19 breaches and strip club brawl are just the latest in a long line of off-field issues that have plagued Richmond’s season in the bubble drama that rivals an episode of The Kardashians, Jon Ralph writes.
Jon Ralph, Herald Sun
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September 4, 2020 9:15pm
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Two Victorian AFL players have been arrested and hit with hefty fines for fighting outside a Gold Coast strip club in a breach of the code’s strict COVID-19 bubble restrictions.

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Richmond’s season has morphed into a bizarre TV episode of “Kardashians Do The Gold Coast”.
The wild child rookie and the emerging ruckman getting into boozy scuffles outside strip clubs then banished to lockdown Victoria on the next flight home.
The senior coach involved in petty squabbles with the media as he attempts to boast about past glories.
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Sydney Stack at Richmond training. Picture: Michael Klein

Both Stack and captain Trent Cotchin have now been embroiled in AFL COVID-19 protocol breaches. Picture: Michael Klein
And the wives of the club boss and the captain exchanging shots at 20 paces after a “beauty treatment” gone wrong, all of it played out across the gossip pages.
Yet like the filthy rich Kardashians, so far the Teflon Tigers have shown absolutely no indication it is about to ruin their shot at a dynasty.
The newest juicy episode involved Richmond youngsters Sydney Stack and Callum Coleman-Jones basically attempting to break every possible COVID-19 rule set by the AFL.
And in the process gave off the worst possible perception: that the AFL could stampede into Queensland with wives and families, mocking COVID-19 safety when they weren’t lounging by the pool sipping a cocktail.
If stumbling out of a strip club at 3.30am and heading to the local kebab joint isn’t the perfect place to find a drunken scuffle then it’s hard to know where else is.

The penalties came swiftly and with a premium that showed the AFL is aware its presence in this state is on a knife’s edge: 10 match bans for the pair and a $100,000 fine for Richmond.

Welcome to the latest episode of 'Keeping Up With The Tigers'.
AFL boss Gillon McLachlan had only just defended bringing his own family into the hub as drones hovered overhead on Thursday, with Queensland media painting the hard quarantine centre as a party hub.
Say what you want about the AFL’s attempt to keep its season alive, but even McLachlan couldn’t defend the AFL’s treatment while families missed lifesaving treatment because of locked down borders.
So at the very least now Queensland premier Annastacia Palaszczuk gets to come down hard on the AFL.
She tweeted on Friday: “AFL players caught breaking COVID-19 rules should be sent home. Queensland won’t tolerate it.”
And the league gets to boast it used a big stick on the latest covidiots.
But the AFL wasn’t the only one betrayed.
Richmond has joined Geelong as an AFL club desperate to keep all of its coaches together in this COVID-19 storm while rivals have jettisoned as many as five assistants.
Already, Richmond will have to make impossibly hard decisions on how to cut more than $3 million out of its cap for next year.

Callum Coleman-Jones is yet to make his AFL debut — and won’t until at least mid-next year. Picture: Michael Klein
Before they get on the plane to be sent home Coleman-Jones and Stack will likely have to look a staffer or coach in the eye, aware there isn’t money in the football cap for that person next year because of their actions.
The AFL Coaches Association is set to at least ask the question of the AFL why it is that a coach, or physio or analyst will be penalised for the idiocy of players.
Richmond has only just boasted of hitting 100,000 members — many of whom have seen exactly one home game this year — and yet what a slap in the face for them to be basically paying that fine despite all they have sacrificed this year.
As for the Tigers, the list of distractions just continues to add up by the week.
What other club could have the chief executive’s wife and the captain’s wife effectively at loggerheads in a war of words over Trent Cotchin threatening to leave the Queensland hub and yet play as if nothing of the sort had eventuated?

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Make no mistake, teammates were disgruntled at the events of that week and the way the Cotchins were effectively given a “wing” of the club’s headquarters with extensive renovations.
Yet presumably in the Tigers’ open forum those events have been addressed, compartmentalised and put in the rear view mirror.
As Nick Riewoldt told Fox Footy on Sunday, at the first hint Richmond’s exceptional form is about to drop off, they will be used again to question the club’s morale.
“You just wonder if the pressure does come,” Riewoldt said.
“At the moment they are playing good footy. We all know it is hard to move on from those things when you’re winning but as soon as the pressure does come (it could change).
“You look for reasons. At the start of the year with West Coast we were looking. Are they not enjoying the hubs?
“This is embarrassing now. For the captain of the football club, his standing in the game couldn’t have been higher in the last three years.”
AFL'S COVID CALAMITY

The Tigers Gold Coast brawl is just the latest in a long line of COVID-19 breaches by AFL clubs.

■ September 4: Richmond duo Sydney Stack and Callum Coleman-Jones are arrested after being involved in an altercation outside of a Gold Coast strip club at 3.30am. Both have been sent home and banned for 10 matches. The Tigers have been fined $100,000, $75,000 for this incident and $25,000 that was suspended from Brooke Cotchin’s breach, which will be counted in the club’s 2021 soft cap. Richmond have confirmed the two players will pay the $75,000 fine between them.

■ August 20: Port Adelaide’s Peter Ladhams banned for three games and Dan Houston banned for two games after hosting a group of friends at Ladhams’ home.

■ August 15: Sydney player Elijah Taylor banned for the rest of the season after his girlfriend entered the Swans quarantine accommodation in WA when not authorised to do so. The Swans were fined $50,000 for the breach, with $25,000 amount suspended to be included in the club’s 2021 soft cap.

■ August 1: Collingwood’s head coach Nathan Buckley and assistant Brenton Sanderson breached protocols when they played tennis with two people from outside the bubble in Perth, one of whom was Australia’s Fed Cup captain Alicia Molik. The Magpies were fined $50,000 ($25,000 suspended).

■ July 31: The AFL fined four Victorian clubs for breaches by “club people” for incidents including a wife attending a day spa and another family allowing grandparents to look after children. Hawthorn received and accepted a $50,000 fine ($25,000 suspended for the remainder of 2020 AFL season), while Carlton, North Melbourne and Richmond all received and accepted $45,000 fines ($25,000 suspended for the remainder of 2020 AFL season).

■ June 30: Collingwood’s Steele Sidebottom banned for four games and Lynden Dunn for one after they shared an Uber on a Saturday, June 27. Sidebottom later visited a member of staff who was not living under the game’s protocols. Police found Sidebottom intoxicated in the Melbourne suburb of Williamstown on Sunday morning, which was factored into his sanction.

■ June 29: Essendon’s Connor McKenna was banned for a game after he visited the house of his former host family, without gaining approval from his club.

■ June 12: Melbourne players Charlie Spargo and Kysaiah Pickett were banned for two matches and one match respectively, after the Demons self-reported that the pair travelled via an Uber to an unauthorised house for a non-essential gathering.

■ June 11: Port Adelaide vice-captain Ollie Wines was banned for one game after he conducted a television interview, as part of a private deal with Channel 7, at the front of his house.

■ June 11: Essendon’s Brandon Zerk-Thatcher was suspended for one game after self-reporting he had breached the living arrangements protocols that apply to all players and officials.

■ May 11: Sixteen Adelaide Crows players each received a suspended one-match ban and assistant Coach Ben Hart was stood down from coaching duties for six weeks, after players trained in groups larger than permitted by the AFL while in self-quarantine in a hotel in the Barossa Valley.

TIGER TROUBLES IN 2020

It's been a rugged time in the bubble for Richmond Football Club

DIMMA V HORSE
After seeing off Sydney in a dour game at the Gabba in Round 6 Damien Hardwick teed off at the Swans and opposition coach John Longmire.
Describing it as a “horrendous game of football”, Hardwick went after what he viewed as negative tactics from Longmire and the Swans.
“There’s not much I can do. We’re attacking, we’ve got 75,000 people in our forward 50. It’s pretty hard. It’s become a tactic in the AFL. Foldback mentality is really keeping sides in games,” he said.
The provoked an angry response from Longmire, who said Hardwick had broken an unwritten rule for coaches, Swans chairman Andrew Pridham and even Hardwick’s wife whose tongue lashing prompted the Richmond coach to apologise to Longmire.

BROOKE'S COSTLY VISIT TO THE SPA
A visit to a day spa by Brooke Cotchin became an extremely expensive one.
The wife of Richmond captain Trent’s Instagram story of her trip to the spa was quickly picked up by the AFL as a breach of the league’s strict biosecurity protocols.
Richmond was hit with a $45,000 fine for Brooke’s visit, with $25,000 suspended, which the Cotchins offered to pay.
AFL.com.au reporter Mitch Cleary was temporarily stood down for posting a screenshot of Brooke’s Instagram story after the league made a deal with Richmond that she would not be identified.

CHANGE ROOM GROPING
Hardwick aborted his pre-Round 11 media conference on Zoom when asked about Nick Vlastuin and Jayden Short groping Mabior Chol in the Richmond singing of the team song after big wins over the Western Bulldogs and Brisbane.
Richmond and the AFL described the behaviour by Vlastuin and Short as unacceptable and clearly a breach of community standards while Chol said he wasn’t personally offended by the actions.
It prompted the league to remind all 18 clubs of their responsibilities to provide safe working environment for all.

DIMMA V THE WORLD ON LYNCH
Another media conference, another moment by Hardwick.
After star forward Tom Lynch came under fire for another off-the-ball incident against the Gold Coast Suns, striking Sam Collins, Hardwick went on the offensive in backing his linchpin.
In response to Melbourne great David Schwarz calling Lynch a “boofhead”, Hardwick strangely brought up the 2000 Grand Final.
“They should have a good, hard look at themselves as I guarantee a few guys making comments, and I’m looking at David Schwarz here - I played a grand final against this bloke - and 20 minutes into the game he was crying,” Hardwick said.
“So he should have a look at himself at some stage.”
The comments were later cut from the video of Hardwick’s media conference that went on Richmond’s website.

BROOKE'S DAD TIPS THE BUCKET
Rick Kennedy breathed new life into the protocols breach story when he went on Triple M and slammed Richmond and the AFL for how they handled Brooke’s COVID-19 protocols breach, saying his daughter had been “muzzled”.
The former Footscray player said the AFL and Richmond had not supported his daughter in the aftermath of it and the situation was poorly handled.

MRS GALE RESPONDS
This resulted in one of the lingering rumours from the Gold Coast hub being confirmed, that the Cotchin’s threatened to leave Queensland after Brooke’s COVID-19 breach.
Responding to Kennedy’s comments Jane Gale - wife of Richmond chief executive Brendon - told News Corp that her husband and Hardwick had worked hard to “go into bat” for the Cotchins in the aftermath.
“Brendon and his team, including Damien Hardwick, had to work hard, go in to bat for the Cotchins and provide personal support to Brooke. Let’s just say it was not a quick turnaround by the Cotchins, who threatened to leave the Hub at one point,” she said.

KEBAB SHOP KERFUFFLE
Sydney Stack and Callum Coleman-Jones were arrested after an altercation outside the Hollywood Showgirls strip club on the Gold Coast at 3.30am.
The altercation was captured on CCTV footage by an neighbouring kebab shop.
It is understood police were called, with the fight occurring just metres from the police station.
Vision from the Kebab Zone on Orchid Ave showed Stack and Coleman-Jones sitting on a bench out the front, snacking on their food when Coleman-Jones appeared to be accosted by a drunken bystander, starting an altercation that lasted a minute or so.
The have been sent home and banned for 10 matches while the club has been fined $100,000, $75,000 for this incident and $25,000 that was suspended after Brooke Cotchin’s breach which will be counted in Richmond’s 2021 soft cap.
Richmond have confirmed Stack and Coleman-Jones will pay the $75,000 fine between them.

 

[Joey longshadow]

Fair enough, it makes sense when you explain it like that (quietly remains tin foil hat)

I think most of us have a tin foil hat lying around somewhere

 

[TJTIGER]

Oh dear... Nothing worse than blind faith.

True, but there is another thing called 'facts'. Unfortunately the meeja as opposed to the actual media are not necessarily held to the same standards. I'd suggest....

 

[SunshineBoy]

Reading that article , even our own are gunning for us , Jon Ralph can go and get ****ed

 

[SunshineBoy]

I’m struggling to understand Benny Gales missus buying into it, he needs a new missus

 

[DickieKnee]

So now Ralph reckons there is unrest within the playing group with the "Favoured" treatment of the Cotchins.lol


on Ralph: Richmond’s off-field distractions in Gold Coast bubble have turned into soap opera
The COVID-19 breaches and strip club brawl are just the latest in a long line of off-field issues that have plagued Richmond’s season in the bubble drama that rivals an episode of The Kardashians, Jon Ralph writes.
Jon Ralph, Herald Sun
Subscriber only
|
September 4, 2020 9:15pm
Close

HERALDSUN.COM.AU1:04 Richmond players arrested after punch-up outside Gold Coast strip club

Two Victorian AFL players have been arrested and hit with hefty fines for fighting outside a Gold Coast strip club in a breach of the code’s strict COVID-19 bubble restrictions.

MORE IN SPORT

Ditts digs heels in on Cornes B&F conspiracy claims

‘Send them back’: Fury over AFL brawl

Aker’s warning to Lions over Gabba Grand Final

Richmond’s season has morphed into a bizarre TV episode of “Kardashians Do The Gold Coast”.
The wild child rookie and the emerging ruckman getting into boozy scuffles outside strip clubs then banished to lockdown Victoria on the next flight home.
The senior coach involved in petty squabbles with the media as he attempts to boast about past glories.
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Sydney Stack at Richmond training. Picture: Michael Klein

Both Stack and captain Trent Cotchin have now been embroiled in AFL COVID-19 protocol breaches. Picture: Michael Klein
And the wives of the club boss and the captain exchanging shots at 20 paces after a “beauty treatment” gone wrong, all of it played out across the gossip pages.
Yet like the filthy rich Kardashians, so far the Teflon Tigers have shown absolutely no indication it is about to ruin their shot at a dynasty.
The newest juicy episode involved Richmond youngsters Sydney Stack and Callum Coleman-Jones basically attempting to break every possible COVID-19 rule set by the AFL.
And in the process gave off the worst possible perception: that the AFL could stampede into Queensland with wives and families, mocking COVID-19 safety when they weren’t lounging by the pool sipping a cocktail.
If stumbling out of a strip club at 3.30am and heading to the local kebab joint isn’t the perfect place to find a drunken scuffle then it’s hard to know where else is.

The penalties came swiftly and with a premium that showed the AFL is aware its presence in this state is on a knife’s edge: 10 match bans for the pair and a $100,000 fine for Richmond.

Welcome to the latest episode of 'Keeping Up With The Tigers'.
AFL boss Gillon McLachlan had only just defended bringing his own family into the hub as drones hovered overhead on Thursday, with Queensland media painting the hard quarantine centre as a party hub.
Say what you want about the AFL’s attempt to keep its season alive, but even McLachlan couldn’t defend the AFL’s treatment while families missed lifesaving treatment because of locked down borders.
So at the very least now Queensland premier Annastacia Palaszczuk gets to come down hard on the AFL.
She tweeted on Friday: “AFL players caught breaking COVID-19 rules should be sent home. Queensland won’t tolerate it.”
And the league gets to boast it used a big stick on the latest covidiots.
But the AFL wasn’t the only one betrayed.
Richmond has joined Geelong as an AFL club desperate to keep all of its coaches together in this COVID-19 storm while rivals have jettisoned as many as five assistants.
Already, Richmond will have to make impossibly hard decisions on how to cut more than $3 million out of its cap for next year.

Callum Coleman-Jones is yet to make his AFL debut — and won’t until at least mid-next year. Picture: Michael Klein
Before they get on the plane to be sent home Coleman-Jones and Stack will likely have to look a staffer or coach in the eye, aware there isn’t money in the football cap for that person next year because of their actions.
The AFL Coaches Association is set to at least ask the question of the AFL why it is that a coach, or physio or analyst will be penalised for the idiocy of players.
Richmond has only just boasted of hitting 100,000 members — many of whom have seen exactly one home game this year — and yet what a slap in the face for them to be basically paying that fine despite all they have sacrificed this year.
As for the Tigers, the list of distractions just continues to add up by the week.
What other club could have the chief executive’s wife and the captain’s wife effectively at loggerheads in a war of words over Trent Cotchin threatening to leave the Queensland hub and yet play as if nothing of the sort had eventuated?

HERALDSUN.COM.AU0:43 Footage shows AFL's 'luxury lock down' in Queensland (9 News)

The Queensland Government is facing fierce backlash over the AFL's luxury lock down conditions.

MORE NEWS:
AFL delivers brutal penalties for Tigers’ Gold Coast brawl
Ultimate trade guide: Your club’s top targets
Travis Tuck: My brother, my mate, our pain
Make no mistake, teammates were disgruntled at the events of that week and the way the Cotchins were effectively given a “wing” of the club’s headquarters with extensive renovations.
Yet presumably in the Tigers’ open forum those events have been addressed, compartmentalised and put in the rear view mirror.
As Nick Riewoldt told Fox Footy on Sunday, at the first hint Richmond’s exceptional form is about to drop off, they will be used again to question the club’s morale.
“You just wonder if the pressure does come,” Riewoldt said.
“At the moment they are playing good footy. We all know it is hard to move on from those things when you’re winning but as soon as the pressure does come (it could change).
“You look for reasons. At the start of the year with West Coast we were looking. Are they not enjoying the hubs?
“This is embarrassing now. For the captain of the football club, his standing in the game couldn’t have been higher in the last three years.”
AFL'S COVID CALAMITY

The Tigers Gold Coast brawl is just the latest in a long line of COVID-19 breaches by AFL clubs.

■ September 4: Richmond duo Sydney Stack and Callum Coleman-Jones are arrested after being involved in an altercation outside of a Gold Coast strip club at 3.30am. Both have been sent home and banned for 10 matches. The Tigers have been fined $100,000, $75,000 for this incident and $25,000 that was suspended from Brooke Cotchin’s breach, which will be counted in the club’s 2021 soft cap. Richmond have confirmed the two players will pay the $75,000 fine between them.

■ August 20: Port Adelaide’s Peter Ladhams banned for three games and Dan Houston banned for two games after hosting a group of friends at Ladhams’ home.

■ August 15: Sydney player Elijah Taylor banned for the rest of the season after his girlfriend entered the Swans quarantine accommodation in WA when not authorised to do so. The Swans were fined $50,000 for the breach, with $25,000 amount suspended to be included in the club’s 2021 soft cap.

■ August 1: Collingwood’s head coach Nathan Buckley and assistant Brenton Sanderson breached protocols when they played tennis with two people from outside the bubble in Perth, one of whom was Australia’s Fed Cup captain Alicia Molik. The Magpies were fined $50,000 ($25,000 suspended).

■ July 31: The AFL fined four Victorian clubs for breaches by “club people” for incidents including a wife attending a day spa and another family allowing grandparents to look after children. Hawthorn received and accepted a $50,000 fine ($25,000 suspended for the remainder of 2020 AFL season), while Carlton, North Melbourne and Richmond all received and accepted $45,000 fines ($25,000 suspended for the remainder of 2020 AFL season).

■ June 30: Collingwood’s Steele Sidebottom banned for four games and Lynden Dunn for one after they shared an Uber on a Saturday, June 27. Sidebottom later visited a member of staff who was not living under the game’s protocols. Police found Sidebottom intoxicated in the Melbourne suburb of Williamstown on Sunday morning, which was factored into his sanction.

■ June 29: Essendon’s Connor McKenna was banned for a game after he visited the house of his former host family, without gaining approval from his club.

■ June 12: Melbourne players Charlie Spargo and Kysaiah Pickett were banned for two matches and one match respectively, after the Demons self-reported that the pair travelled via an Uber to an unauthorised house for a non-essential gathering.

■ June 11: Port Adelaide vice-captain Ollie Wines was banned for one game after he conducted a television interview, as part of a private deal with Channel 7, at the front of his house.

■ June 11: Essendon’s Brandon Zerk-Thatcher was suspended for one game after self-reporting he had breached the living arrangements protocols that apply to all players and officials.

■ May 11: Sixteen Adelaide Crows players each received a suspended one-match ban and assistant Coach Ben Hart was stood down from coaching duties for six weeks, after players trained in groups larger than permitted by the AFL while in self-quarantine in a hotel in the Barossa Valley.

TIGER TROUBLES IN 2020

It's been a rugged time in the bubble for Richmond Football Club

DIMMA V HORSE
After seeing off Sydney in a dour game at the Gabba in Round 6 Damien Hardwick teed off at the Swans and opposition coach John Longmire.
Describing it as a “horrendous game of football”, Hardwick went after what he viewed as negative tactics from Longmire and the Swans.
“There’s not much I can do. We’re attacking, we’ve got 75,000 people in our forward 50. It’s pretty hard. It’s become a tactic in the AFL. Foldback mentality is really keeping sides in games,” he said.
The provoked an angry response from Longmire, who said Hardwick had broken an unwritten rule for coaches, Swans chairman Andrew Pridham and even Hardwick’s wife whose tongue lashing prompted the Richmond coach to apologise to Longmire.

BROOKE'S COSTLY VISIT TO THE SPA
A visit to a day spa by Brooke Cotchin became an extremely expensive one.
The wife of Richmond captain Trent’s Instagram story of her trip to the spa was quickly picked up by the AFL as a breach of the league’s strict biosecurity protocols.
Richmond was hit with a $45,000 fine for Brooke’s visit, with $25,000 suspended, which the Cotchins offered to pay.
AFL.com.au reporter Mitch Cleary was temporarily stood down for posting a screenshot of Brooke’s Instagram story after the league made a deal with Richmond that she would not be identified.

CHANGE ROOM GROPING
Hardwick aborted his pre-Round 11 media conference on Zoom when asked about Nick Vlastuin and Jayden Short groping Mabior Chol in the Richmond singing of the team song after big wins over the Western Bulldogs and Brisbane.
Richmond and the AFL described the behaviour by Vlastuin and Short as unacceptable and clearly a breach of community standards while Chol said he wasn’t personally offended by the actions.
It prompted the league to remind all 18 clubs of their responsibilities to provide safe working environment for all.

DIMMA V THE WORLD ON LYNCH
Another media conference, another moment by Hardwick.
After star forward Tom Lynch came under fire for another off-the-ball incident against the Gold Coast Suns, striking Sam Collins, Hardwick went on the offensive in backing his linchpin.
In response to Melbourne great David Schwarz calling Lynch a “boofhead”, Hardwick strangely brought up the 2000 Grand Final.
“They should have a good, hard look at themselves as I guarantee a few guys making comments, and I’m looking at David Schwarz here - I played a grand final against this bloke - and 20 minutes into the game he was crying,” Hardwick said.
“So he should have a look at himself at some stage.”
The comments were later cut from the video of Hardwick’s media conference that went on Richmond’s website.

BROOKE'S DAD TIPS THE BUCKET
Rick Kennedy breathed new life into the protocols breach story when he went on Triple M and slammed Richmond and the AFL for how they handled Brooke’s COVID-19 protocols breach, saying his daughter had been “muzzled”.
The former Footscray player said the AFL and Richmond had not supported his daughter in the aftermath of it and the situation was poorly handled.

MRS GALE RESPONDS
This resulted in one of the lingering rumours from the Gold Coast hub being confirmed, that the Cotchin’s threatened to leave Queensland after Brooke’s COVID-19 breach.
Responding to Kennedy’s comments Jane Gale - wife of Richmond chief executive Brendon - told News Corp that her husband and Hardwick had worked hard to “go into bat” for the Cotchins in the aftermath.
“Brendon and his team, including Damien Hardwick, had to work hard, go in to bat for the Cotchins and provide personal support to Brooke. Let’s just say it was not a quick turnaround by the Cotchins, who threatened to leave the Hub at one point,” she said.

KEBAB SHOP KERFUFFLE
Sydney Stack and Callum Coleman-Jones were arrested after an altercation outside the Hollywood Showgirls strip club on the Gold Coast at 3.30am.
The altercation was captured on CCTV footage by an neighbouring kebab shop.
It is understood police were called, with the fight occurring just metres from the police station.
Vision from the Kebab Zone on Orchid Ave showed Stack and Coleman-Jones sitting on a bench out the front, snacking on their food when Coleman-Jones appeared to be accosted by a drunken bystander, starting an altercation that lasted a minute or so.
The have been sent home and banned for 10 matches while the club has been fined $100,000, $75,000 for this incident and $25,000 that was suspended after Brooke Cotchin’s breach which will be counted in Richmond’s 2021 soft cap.
Richmond have confirmed Stack and Coleman-Jones will pay the $75,000 fine between them.

FMD what a beat up. Stick to the facts John and keep the rumours out of you "journalism". And you call yourself a Richmond fan?

 

[DickieKnee]

In other breaking news from Jon Ralph the majority of players are unhappy with Chol's latest haircut. Coming next week front page of the Herald Scum.

 

[Joey longshadow]

That cow wouldn't even know what AFL football is. She was out of line, but like other so called leaders I'm looking at Dictator Dan they use it to launch their political agenda.

To be fair.. That "cow" is the only reason we have an AFL season at all... Queensland took us in

 

[Charlie Pannam]

Bloody ridiculous. First thing the club needs to do after they’re punished is support them.

And we wonder where all these mental health issues come from.

Well said. Once a Richmond man always a Richmond man.

 

[JR#8]

In other breaking news from Jon Ralph the majority of players are unhappy with Chol's latest haircut. Coming next week front page of the Herald Scum.

Wish they'd stop posting Stack with that shocking haircut...lol

 

[Tiges1229]

FMD Jon Ralph , ****ing cancel the campaigners membership tigers

 

[captain cotch 9]

At least Broad wasn’t involved

 

[DeLaCon]

Richmond supporters should support Richmond and not be suckholes to the AFL. Support our players. In the end youre either with Richmond or your against us and IMHO if you support these disgracefully unfair sanctions then you are not a Richmond person. It should be clear to everyone that the AFL and its mdia chronies are out to get us. Our club is under attack. Dont support the people trying to bring down our club.

 

["The Roar Is Back"]

Richmond supporters should support Richmond and not be suckholes to the AFL. Support our players. In the end youre either with Richmond or your against us and IMHO if you support these disgracefully unfair sanctions then you are not a Richmond person. It should be clear to everyone that the AFL and its mdia chronies are out to get us. Our club is under attack. Dont support the people trying to bring down our club.

Yea I get the feeling the AFL is using COVID more than ever to undermine our success and to look after Brisbane and Hocking’sShebaggers .
First it was the whole Brooke Cotchin incident which was blown out of proportion by the AFL , then the ongoing attempt to Lynch lynch , Vlaustin , Grimes and now this . All whilst there is apparently plenty of pics getting a round with a multitude of AFL players out and about In bad shape enjoying what Gold Coast has to offer .
stevens , Sidebottom And Hunter incidents are still by far the biggest incidents for the year , but seemingly got swept under the carpet .

 

[NaturalDisaster]

Richmond supporters should support Richmond and not be suckholes to the AFL. Support our players. In the end youre either with Richmond or your against us and IMHO if you support these disgracefully unfair sanctions then you are not a Richmond person. It should be clear to everyone that the AFL and its mdia chronies are out to get us. Our club is under attack. Dont support the people trying to bring down our club.

No one is trying to “bring down our club”

The players did a shit thing and deserved the penalty. We haven’t had a good year off field, thats why we have had so much media attention, not because anyones out to get us.

Yeah, some shit has been blown out of proportion, but thats because thats what the media does regardless of who is on the receiving end.