{"id":75880,"date":"2025-08-17T21:03:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T21:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/75880\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T21:03:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T21:03:07","slug":"izak-rankine-to-be-investigated-for-alleged-homophobic-slur-adelaide-crows-win-over-collingwood-magpies-how-many-games-would-he-miss-latest-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/75880\/","title":{"rendered":"Izak Rankine to be investigated for alleged homophobic slur, Adelaide Crows win over Collingwood Magpies, how many games would he miss, latest news"},"content":{"rendered":"

Adelaide star Izak Rankine is reportedly set to be investigated for an alleged homophobic slur directed at a Collingwood player last Saturday night. <\/p>\n

According to the Herald Sun<\/a> on Sunday night, the alleged comment was made on-field during the captivating encounter, which saw the Crows emerge three-point victors. <\/p>\n

If found guilty, Rankine\u2019s hopes of playing in September would appear in grave doubt, given recent punishments for instances of homophobic slurs. An Adelaide win against North Melbourne in Round 24 would cement a minor premiership, with two home finals already locked in next month. <\/p>\n

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In such circumstances, the league\u2019s Integrity Unit interviews the parties involved and considers specific circumstances before coming to a verdict. <\/p>\n

The league has repeatedly demonstrated its punitive stance against homophobic behaviour. Gold Coast defender Wil Powell was last year suspended five matches for delivering a homophobic slur, while St Kilda forward Lance Collard was hit with a six-game ban for comments made during a VFL match. Port Adelaide\u2019s Jeremy Finlayson copped a three-match suspension last April. <\/p>\n

This year, West Coast recruit Jack Graham was banned four matches by the league for using a \u201chighly offensive\u201d homophobic slur<\/a> towards a GWS opponent in Round 17 \u2014 becoming the fourth player in the space of 16 months to have been found guilty of such acts. Most recently, in July, Sydney\u2019s Riak Andrew was banned five matches for using a homophobic slur during a VFL match. <\/p>\n

The AFL was thought to have been more lenient in Graham\u2019s circumstance given he had self-reported the incident in the days following the match. The veteran midfielder was ordered to undertake Pride in Sport education as a result of his actions. <\/p>\n

AFL Head of Integrity and Security Tony Keane said in a statement after the Graham suspension: \u201cThe AFL is very clear that homophobia has no place in our game, nor in the community. We have come a long way as a code, but this incident demonstrates there is so much more to be done, and we will continue to work together to improve our game as a safe and inclusive environment for all. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe AFL will continue to consider the specific circumstances in each incident in determining appropriate responses. Graham\u2019s sanction would have been higher if he hadn\u2019t self-reported and understood his comment was totally inappropriate.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Adelaide star Izak Rankine is reportedly set to be investigated for an alleged homophobic slur directed at a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75881,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-75880","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-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75880","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=75880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}