{"id":76144,"date":"2025-08-17T23:43:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T23:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/76144\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T23:43:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T23:43:08","slug":"afl-crows-star-izak-rankine-could-be-investigated-over-alleged-comment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/76144\/","title":{"rendered":"AFL: Crows star Izak Rankine could be investigated over alleged comment"},"content":{"rendered":"

Izak Rankine, one of Adelaide’s most important players, could come under AFL investigation a week out from the finals.<\/p>\n

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Late on Sunday night several media outlets reported that Rankine may be in trouble for an alleged comment to a Collingwood opponent during Saturday night’s massive win.<\/p>\n

That three-point success in front of a packed house at Adelaide Oval guaranteed the Crows will finish in the top two and secure a home qualifying final.<\/p>\n

This will be the Crows’ first finals appearance since they lost the 2017 grand final to Richmond. Their premierships were in 1997-98.<\/p>\n

Rankine was among Adelaide’s best against the Magpies, kicking a goal late in the second term that gave them the lead for the first time in the match.<\/p>\n

Izak Rankine.\u00a0Photo by Sarah Reed\/AFL Photos via Getty Images<\/p>\n

If a league investigation was to find him guilty of misconduct and he was suspended, it would be a significant blow to Adelaide’s finals campaign.<\/p>\n

There was no official confirmation from the AFL or either club as of late Sunday night that there had been an alleged incident.<\/p>\n

Adelaide will play North Melbourne next Saturday at Marvel Stadium, their last game before the finals.<\/p>\n

Rankine, 25, has played 22 games this season for a career total of 105.<\/p>\n

He is yet to play in a final, having started his AFL career with three seasons at Gold Coast before the Adelaide native was traded to the Crows after the 2022 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Izak Rankine, one of Adelaide’s most important players, could come under AFL investigation a week out from the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76145,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-76144","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\/76144","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=76144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}