{"id":594837,"date":"2026-04-09T03:57:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T03:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/594837\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T03:57:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T03:57:10","slug":"live-updates-from-disciplinary-hearing-for-alleged-homophobic-comment-in-vfl-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/594837\/","title":{"rendered":"live updates from disciplinary hearing for alleged homophobic comment in VFL match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Collard\u2019s lawyer Michael Borsky KC reveals the AFL has proposed suspending Collard for 10 matches if found guilty of the allegation. <\/p>\n<p>Collard\u2019s lawyer Michael Borsky KC is giving Darby Hipwell a grilling as he tries to ascertain who, apart from Hipwell, may have heard the alleged comment from Collard. <\/p>\n<p>There are several players including Hipwell\u2019s teammate Bailey Humphrey and the umpire Morgan in the vicinity of the incident as a melee had occurred. <\/p>\n<p>Borsky KC is going through the investigators record of interview with Hipwell to establish whether what was recorded is accurate. <\/p>\n<p>He has now asked him whether it was possible he misheard Collard<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no possibility I misheard him,\u201cHipwell said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Collard\u2019s lawyer Michael Borsky KC reveals the AFL has proposed suspending Collard for 10 matches if found guilty&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":594838,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-594837","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\/594837","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=594837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/594838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}