According to the Herald Sun<\/a>, Preuss and Port Melbourne board member Toby Pinwill had a physical confrontation at the North Port Hotel after the Seagulls-Borough fixture on Sunday. <\/p>\nWilliamstown players allege Pinwill, a former Port Melbourne player and current director of football, headbutted Preuss when the pair came face-to-face in the altercation. <\/p>\n
Per the report, Pinwill told Borough officials that he \u201cfelt threatened\u201d by Preuss, and \u201conly pushed him away\u201d. <\/p>\n
Seagulls players were present at the post-match get-together with officials and family members, as is standard after away fixtures, with Willy CEO Paul Northey telling the Herald Sun that a number of them were \u201cconfronted with some aggressive behaviour by some patrons\u201d. <\/p>\n
It\u2019s believed Pinwill directed choice remarks to recent Seagulls recruit Lachie Wilson, who signed with Port Melbourne prior to the start of this season before leaving a short time later without playing a game. <\/p>\n
\u201cIn no way did our people instigate or were the aggressors in the incident. With the help of hotel management, the situation was quickly resolved, and those patrons were asked to leave the venue,\u201d Northey told the Herald Sun. <\/p>\n
Preuss was most recently AFL-listed in 2022 with the Giants, tallying 28 games across an injury-riddled near-decade-long career. He arrived at North Melbourne in 2014 as a rookie draftee. <\/p>\n
The Round 11 clash with Port Melbourne – which saw the Borough prevail by one point in a nailbiter – was Preuss\u2019 fifth game of the season, recording 11 disposals and 33 hitouts. <\/p>\n
Ablett Jnr inducted into Hall of Fame | 02:15<\/p>\n
DEES WEIGH UP ALICE SPRINGS FUTURE<\/p>\n
In the wake of discourse over the Demons\u2019 recent playing history in Alice Springs, a report has emerged stating the club is considering not renewing its contract with the Northern Territory. <\/p>\n
The Dees have lost their past four games at TIO Traeger Park in Alice Springs, headlined by their Round 12 defeat at the hands of the Giants. <\/p>\n
Melbourne\u2019s contract with the state ends this year, and after the loss to GWS, King said regarding playing in the NT: \u201cSelfishly, for me as a senior coach, I\u2019d love to play every game at the MCG. That\u2019s our home. <\/p>\n
\u201cBut I completely understand the club\u2019s position, and our responsibility to grow the game \u2026 I\u2019m not sure how long the contract is; that\u2019s not part of my role.\u201d<\/p>\n
On Tuesday night, Seven\u2019s Caroline Wilson reported that King\u2019s voice \u201cis one of many now that is going to see an end to that deal with the Northern Territory and the Melbourne Football Club\u201d, with the game reportedly worth $1 million to the Dees. <\/p>\n
\u201cMelbourne is currently weighing up its options. Can they afford to next year forego $1 million? Well, it won\u2019t (quite) be $1 million, because they will get some money from the game in Melbourne. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe Melbourne board, I\u2019m told, now is feeling more and more aggrieved \u2026 the contract is up, the board is going to speak with the footy department in the next week.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A former AFL player was reportedly at the centre of a physical confrontation with a VFL rival at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":726352,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,24261,64,63,689,55,639,119661,351822,3239,12928,657,54883,1127,2105,2485,1139,351820,137150,351828,56535,647,45191,7804,673,8867,677,351824,210640,351821,351823,351827,701,233543,351826,85,670,351825,660],"class_list":["post-726351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-alice-springs","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-board-member","tag-braydon-preuss","tag-carlton-blues","tag-caroline-wilson","tag-family-members","tag-footy-department","tag-fox-footy","tag-getty-images-inc","tag-gold-coast","tag-greater-western-sydney-giants","tag-headbutt-incident","tag-hotel-management","tag-lachie-wilson","tag-mark-kolbe","tag-melbourne","tag-melbourne-board","tag-melbourne-demons","tag-new-south-wales","tag-northern-territory","tag-oceania","tag-paul-northey","tag-physical-confrontation","tag-playing-history","tag-post-match-get-together","tag-pub-clash","tag-queensland","tag-rookie-draftee","tag-seagulls-players","tag-sports","tag-sydney","tag-toby-pinwill","tag-victoria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726351","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=726351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/726352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=726351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=726351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=726351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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