{"id":573715,"date":"2026-03-30T07:32:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T07:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/573715\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T07:32:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T07:32:13","slug":"remorseful-xerri-given-a-three-match-for-disgraceful-behaviour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/573715\/","title":{"rendered":"Remorseful Xerri given a three-match for \u2018disgraceful behaviour\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After deliberating for about 30 minutes, AFL Tribunal chairman Jeff Gleeson KC ruled that Xerri was guilty of \u201cdisgraceful behaviour\u201d and would miss matches against Carlton, Brisbane and Richmond.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe matters we have taken into consideration are as follows, the intentional act of wiping blood from your nose onto the face of another player is disgraceful behaviour,\u201d Gleeson said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cXerri\u2019s hand was quite close to McGrath\u2019s open mouth. In circumstances where numerous players were pushing and shoving, the blood could quite easily have made contact with McGrath\u2019s mouth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gleeson said the incident met a serious misconduct charge, but praised Xerri for his \u201cimpressive, candid and remorseful evidence\u201d which potentially saved him from a longer penalty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After deliberating for about 30 minutes, AFL Tribunal chairman Jeff Gleeson KC ruled that Xerri was guilty of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":573716,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-573715","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\/573715","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=573715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/573716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}