{"id":434242,"date":"2026-01-24T10:29:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T10:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/434242\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T10:29:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T10:29:19","slug":"police-charge-west-coast-forward-afl-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/434242\/","title":{"rendered":"Police charge West Coast forward &#8211; AFL News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohanger.com\/introducing-myteam-your-club-your-news-your-way-166070\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"327\" height=\"40\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" style=\"float:right;\" class=\"my-team-banner promo-article-banner\" id=\"my-team-banner\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ZH-InArticleMyTeamLink.png.webp.webp\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>West Coast player <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohanger.com\/afl\/players\/tyler-brockman\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tyler Brockman<\/a> has been charged with one count of grievous bodily harm by police following an altercation in Western Australia late last year.<\/p>\n<p>Brockman was involved in a street fight in Geraldton in December, with the incident alleged to have left a teenager with serious but non-life-threatening injuries.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old is now set to face court next month over the matter, with WA Police charging Brockman this week.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohanger.com\/afl\/teams\/west-coast-eagles\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">West Coast Eagles<\/a> confirm <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohanger.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AFL<\/a> player <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohanger.com\/afl\/players\/tyler-brockman\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tyler Brockman<\/a> has been charged with one count of grievous bodily harm by WA Police following an incident in Geraldton in December,&#8221; a club statement read.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Brockman is due to appear before the Geraldton Magistrates Court on Thursday, February 19.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Club has made the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohanger.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AFL<\/a> aware of the charge and is unable to make any further comment as the matter is before the courts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This incident follows charges of Careless Driving, Failing to Report an Incident in Which Property was Damaged, and Failing to Stop against Brockman from a road accident in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Brockman was fined $1400 after pleading guilty to multiple traffic offences.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The former Hawk has been training with West Coast this pre-season as he looks to add to his 56 career games, including 20 matches for the Eagles in 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n        &#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; West Coast player Tyler Brockman has been charged with one count of grievous bodily harm by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434243,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-434242","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\/434242","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=434242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}