{"id":158410,"date":"2025-09-21T08:20:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T08:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/158410\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T08:20:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T08:20:17","slug":"dayne-zorko-fined-by-afl-for-targeting-mason-coxs-glasses-in-lions-win-over-magpies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/158410\/","title":{"rendered":"Dayne Zorko fined by AFL for targeting Mason Cox’s glasses in Lions’ win over Magpies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brisbane Lions stalwart Dayne Zorko has been fined by the AFL after he ripped off Mason Cox’s glasses during their fiery preliminary final clash.<\/p>\n

Zorko can accept a $3,125 penalty \u2014 down from $5,000 with an early guilty plea \u2014 for misconduct.<\/p>\n

But he is free to play in the Lions’ third straight grand final, when they take on Geelong at the MCG on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Zorko and Cox were involved in a heated confrontation during the first quarter of Brisbane’s 29-point win over Collingwood<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Mason Cox (left) remonstrated with Dayne Zorko after the incident. (Getty Images: Robert Cianflone)<\/p>\n

It came after Zorko had given away a free kick to Cox, who then kicked the opening goal of the match and charged towards his opponent.<\/p>\n

Players from both sides rushed in and Zorko intentionally grabbed Cox’s AFL-approved eyewear, which is used to protect his damaged retinas.<\/p>\n

Cox was not seriously injured in the incident and played out the match.<\/p>\n

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Dayne Zorko can accept a reduced fine with an early guilty plea. (Getty Images\/AFL Photos: Michael Willson)<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Hawthorn has until Monday to decide whether to challenge Mabior Chol’s three-match ban for rough conduct.<\/p>\n

Chol was charged over the tackle in Friday’s preliminary final that left Geelong’s Tom Stewart concussed and ruled out of the grand final.<\/p>\n

AAP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brisbane Lions stalwart Dayne Zorko has been fined by the AFL after he ripped off Mason Cox’s glasses…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158411,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,3237,10990,88951,105415,36987,105416,54857,11288,24705,18021,19095,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-158410","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-afl","8":"tag-afl","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-australian-football-league","12":"tag-australianfootballleague","13":"tag-brisbane-lions","14":"tag-collingwood","15":"tag-dayne-zorko","16":"tag-eyewear","17":"tag-fine","18":"tag-glasses","19":"tag-goggles","20":"tag-grand-final","21":"tag-magpies","22":"tag-mcg","23":"tag-preliminary-final","24":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}