{"id":569913,"date":"2026-03-28T12:07:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T12:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/569913\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T12:07:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T12:07:13","slug":"collard-facing-afl-investigation-again-for-alleged-slur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/569913\/","title":{"rendered":"Collard facing AFL investigation again for alleged slur"},"content":{"rendered":"

St Kilda player Lance Collard is under AFL investigation for an alleged homophobic slur, less than two years after serving a six-game ban for the same offence.<\/p>\n

Late on Saturday, the Saints revealed the AFL integrity unit was looking into an incident involving their players during Friday’s VFL game against Frankston.<\/p>\n

Lance Collard is under investigation by the AFL for the second time for a homophobic slur.\u00a0Photo by Janelle St Pierre\/AFL Photos via Getty Images<\/p>\n

It later emerged that the player is Collard, who was banned in 2024 for slurs in the VFL.<\/p>\n

Collard will also face scrutiny for high contact on a Frankston player, sparking an on-field brawl.<\/p>\n

“St Kilda is aware of an alleged incident involving one of its players during last night’s VFL match against Frankston,” the club said on Saturday.<\/p>\n

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“The club takes matters of this nature extremely seriously and is working closely with the AFL integrity unit as it conducts its investigation into the matter.<\/p>\n

“While this process is underway, it would be inappropriate for the club to comment further.”<\/p>\n

Collard’s 2024 ban while he was playing for VFL side Sandringham, then affiliated with the Saints, was among several cases of homophobic slurs that prompted an AFL crackdown.<\/p>\n

It culminated in Adelaide star Izak Rankine being banned for four AFL games at the end of last season after an incident in a game against Collingwood.<\/p>\n

Rankine missed the Crows’ finals series and returned from the suspension for their round-three loss to the Western Bulldogs.<\/p>\n

Collard has played 15 AFL games for the Saints since his 2024 debut.<\/p>\n

As well as the ban two years ago, he also took part in a Pride in Sport education program <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"St Kilda player Lance Collard is under AFL investigation for an alleged homophobic slur, less than two years…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":569914,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-569913","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\/569913","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=569913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/569914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}