{"id":432003,"date":"2026-01-23T10:36:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T10:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/432003\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T10:36:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T10:36:12","slug":"eagles-forward-charged-by-wa-police-afl-club-confirms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/432003\/","title":{"rendered":"Eagles forward charged by WA police, AFL club confirms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>West Coast forward Tyler Brockman has been charged with one count of grievous bodily harm, the AFL club confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>The Eagles released a brief statement on Friday, confirming Brockman had been charged by WA Police following an incident near Geraldton on December 28.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/afl\/story\/_\/id\/47688923\/afl-dion-prestia-richmond-tigers-steven-melbourne-demons-ask-fight-charges-withdrawn\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/r1603956_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Police will allege in court that Brockman struck a man in his late teens at about 3.50am in Drummond Cove &#8211; almost 430km north of Perth.<\/p>\n<p>The victim sustained serious, non-life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Brockman is due to appear before the Geraldton Magistrates Court on February 19.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old has returned to training following the off-season incident, with The West Australian reporting he was on the field on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Drafted to Hawthorn in 2021 before returning home to WA in 2024, Brockman has played 30 games for the Eagles.<\/p>\n<p>He kicked 14 goals across 20 games last year, after a syndesmosis issue ended his 2025 campaign early.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"West Coast forward Tyler Brockman has been charged with one count of grievous bodily harm, the AFL club&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":432004,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-432003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432003","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=432003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}