{"id":742017,"date":"2026-06-17T09:03:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T09:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/742017\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T09:03:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T09:03:11","slug":"afl-fines-suns-20000-for-repeated-umpire-contact-after-daniel-rioli-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/742017\/","title":{"rendered":"AFL fines Suns $20,000 for repeated umpire contact after Daniel Rioli incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The Gold Coast Suns have been handed a $20,000 fine by the AFL after the club&#8217;s fifth incident of a player making contact with an umpire this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Daniel Rioli was found guilty of making careless contact with an umpire during the Suns&#8217; 45-point loss to Geelong at Kardinia Park last weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The AFL tribunal upheld the charge against Rioli on Tuesday night, with the league handing down the $20,000 penalty to the club on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The league warned all clubs before the season, and again in May, about the sanctions for repeated incidents of careless contact with an umpire, with five set as the threshold.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;This season, we have continued to observe a high number of umpire contact incidents across the league,&#8221; AFL general manager of football performance Greg Swann said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;Amongst these instances of umpire contact, a number have resulted in significant injuries to the affected umpires.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;This is a trend in the game which we do not want to see continue.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Swann said fines would be given at the AFL&#8217;s discretion if more Suns players were found guilty of careless contact with an umpire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">AAP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Gold Coast Suns have been handed a $20,000 fine by the AFL after the club&#8217;s fifth incident&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":742018,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,14390,36987,2485,9130,85,9391,58],"class_list":["post-742017","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-daniel-rioli","tag-fine","tag-gold-coast","tag-gold-coast-suns","tag-sports","tag-suns","tag-umpire-contact"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742017","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=742017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/742018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=742017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=742017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=742017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}