{"id":606025,"date":"2026-04-14T10:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T10:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/606025\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T10:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T10:14:08","slug":"butters-charge-upheld-by-afl-tribunal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/606025\/","title":{"rendered":"Butters charge upheld by AFL Tribunal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__summary\">\n                Port Adelaide acting captain Zak Butters has had his charge upheld by the AFL Tribunal.\n            <\/p>\n<p>Port Adelaide acting captain Zak Butters has had his charge upheld by the AFL Tribunal.<\/p>\n<p>The AFL has ordered Butters pay a $1500 fine for &#8220;using abusive and insulting language towards an umpire&#8221; during Sunday&#8217;s game against St Kilda.<\/p>\n<p>Senior player Ollie Wines and GM of Football Ben Rutten both gave evidence during the hearing, backing up Butters&#8217; position that he did not make the comments alleged by umpire Nick Foot.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The club is deeply disappointed in the Tribunal&#8217;s verdict and rejects any suggestion that questions Zak&#8217;s integrity,&#8221; Port Adelaide chief executive Matthew Richardson said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Zak is a man of outstanding character and we are acutely aware of the toll these proceedings take, not only for him but for his family and those closest to him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Port Adelaide stands unequivocally with Butters and will await receipt from the AFL of the formal Tribunal findings Wednesday morning before considering grounds for an appeal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Port Adelaide acting captain Zak Butters has had his charge upheld by the AFL Tribunal. Port Adelaide acting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":606026,"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-606025","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\/606025","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=606025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/606026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}