{"id":604185,"date":"2026-04-13T13:48:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T13:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/604185\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T13:48:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T13:48:33","slug":"port-adelaide-to-challenge-butters-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/604185\/","title":{"rendered":"Port Adelaide to challenge Butters report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__summary\">\n                Port Adelaide will defend in the strongest possible way the allegations made against Zak Butters.\n            <\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The AFL Match Review Officer has advised Zak\u00a0Butters has been referred to the AFL Tribunal for an incident during Sunday&#8217;s game against St Kilda.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Butters has been charged with using abusive and insulting language towards an umpire.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The exchange was not picked up on the umpire\u2019s microphone.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Port Adelaide Football Club will defend in the strongest possible way the allegations made by AFL umpire Nick Foot against Butters.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Port Adelaide believes the words used by Butters were misheard and misconstrued from what was actually said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Acting club captain Butters is unambiguously adamant on what was said and the club strongly supports him and his position.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Former club captain and Brownlow Medallist Ollie Wines was standing next to Butters and Foot at the time of the exchange and will provide a witness statement in support of Butters.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Port Adelaide is also disappointed that umpire Foot dismissively refused Butters&#8217; attempt to seek clarification post-game, as captain of the club.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Tribunal will sit on Tuesday,\u00a0April 14 at a time to be confirmed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Port Adelaide will defend in the strongest possible way the allegations made against Zak Butters. The AFL Match&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132236,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85,83],"class_list":{"0":"post-604185","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-afl","8":"tag-afl","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-australian-football-league","12":"tag-australianfootballleague","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-text"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604185","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=604185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}