{"id":432168,"date":"2026-01-23T12:22:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T12:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/432168\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T12:22:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T12:22:19","slug":"eagles-forward-charged-by-wa-police-afl-club-confirms-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/432168\/","title":{"rendered":"Eagles forward charged by WA police, AFL club confirms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">West Coast forward Tyler Brockman has been charged with one count of grievous bodily harm, the AFL club confirmed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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 class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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 class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The victim sustained serious, non-life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Brockman is due to appear before the Geraldton Magistrates Court on February 19.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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 class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Drafted to Hawthorn in 2021 before returning home to WA in 2024, Brockman has played 30 games for the Eagles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He kicked 14 goals across 20 games last year, after a syndesmosis issue ended his 2024 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":432169,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,226123,22876,226122,47989,85,23821,12128,7977],"class_list":["post-432168","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-drummond-cove","tag-geraldton","tag-geraldton-magistrates-court","tag-grievous-bodily-harm","tag-sports","tag-the-eagles","tag-tyler-brockman","tag-wa-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432168","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=432168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}