{"id":599263,"date":"2026-04-11T03:51:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T03:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/599263\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T03:51:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T03:51:09","slug":"the-afls-great-regret-amid-the-lance-collard-saga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/599263\/","title":{"rendered":"The AFL&#8217;s &#8216;great regret&#8217; amid the Lance Collard saga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Caroline Wilson has highlighted the AFL\u2019s \u201cgreat regret\u201d amid the saga involving St Kilda forward Lance Collard.<\/p>\n<p>The AFL disciplinary tribunal found Collard guilty of using a homophobic slur for the second time in as many years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s such an ugly story,\u201d Wilson said on 3AW Football.<\/p>\n<p>Press PLAY to hear her highlight the AFL\u2019s \u2018great regret\u2019<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just think it\u2019s another example of where the AFL was too slow to act on what is a really important issue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Images: Supplied, Janelle St Pierre\/Getty\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Caroline Wilson has highlighted the AFL\u2019s \u201cgreat regret\u201d amid the saga involving St Kilda forward Lance Collard. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":599264,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,14676,85],"class_list":["post-599263","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-football-featured","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599263","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=599263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}