Gold Coast’s Jed Walter will miss the opening round of the AFL season after he was handed a one-match ban for rough conduct.<\/p>\n
Walter crashed into the Brisbane Lions’ Zane Zakostelsky with a late bump during the Suns’ pre-season loss to their Queensland rivals on Thursday.<\/p>\n
The incident was assessed as careless conduct, medium impact and high contact.<\/p>\n
It means Walter will miss Gold Coast’s season-opener against Geelong at People First Stadium on March 6.<\/p>\n
The 20-year-old key forward kicked 18 goals in 16 games last year, but was dropped for round 20 and didn’t play in the Suns’ maiden finals campaign.<\/p>\n
Walter also missed the start of the 2025 campaign because of a striking suspension.<\/p>\n
Sydney small forward Malcolm Rosas Jr, who moved from the Suns during the trade period, can accept a $1000 fine for abusive language towards an umpire during the Swans’ win over GWS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gold Coast’s Jed Walter will miss the opening round of the AFL season after he was handed a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":508035,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-508034","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\/508034","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=508034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}