{"id":605639,"date":"2026-04-14T05:46:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T05:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/605639\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T05:46:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T05:46:11","slug":"st-kilda-stars-homophobic-slur-hearing-zak-butters-learns-fate-in-umpire-abuse-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/605639\/","title":{"rendered":"St Kilda star\u2019s homophobic slur hearing; Zak Butters learns fate in umpire abuse scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Borsky KC is now putting St Kilda\u2019s submission forward.<\/p>\n<p>The St Kilda representative, who is also a club board member, said a letter from the AFLPA had been sent to the tribunal. But the tribunal has indicated that the player body\u2019s submission was yet to be received.<\/p>\n<p>Borsky says the AFL\u2019s push for a 10-week ban was \u201cexcessive\u201d, based on similar previous cases.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlayers found to have verbally abused umpires &#8230; are fined and not suspended,\u201d Borsky said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTurning to the circumstances of this case \u2026 subject to an appeal that might be made &#8230; Mr Collard has been found guilty of a second offence.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael Borsky KC is now putting St Kilda\u2019s submission forward. The St Kilda representative, who is also a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":605640,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-605639","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"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605639","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=605639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/605640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}