{"id":784888,"date":"2026-07-07T13:52:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T13:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/784888\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T13:52:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T13:52:11","slug":"ben-long-one-of-six-players-to-challenge-sanctions-at-the-tribunal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/784888\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Long one of SIX players to challenge sanctions at the Tribunal"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n The Suns are challenging Ben Long’s ban, with six players appealing their sanctions from round 17\n <\/p>\n

Brayden Maynard and Ben Long tangle in front of the umpire during the Round 17 match between Gold Coast and Collingwood at People First Stadium on July 4, 2026. Picture: AFL Photos<\/p>\n

GOLD Coast forward Ben Long is among six players who will challenge sanctions following a wild round 17.<\/p>\n

Long will join Western Bulldogs midfielder Matt Kennedy in challenging a suspension at the Tribunal on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

The Suns forward was offered a two-match ban for rough conduct on Collingwood’s Brayden Maynard<\/a>, which sparked a wild all-in brawl at half-time in the Pies’ six-point win at People First Stadium.<\/p>\n

Long had floored Maynard with a hard hit into the body, leading to the Pie remonstrating as the siren sounded for the main break.<\/p>\n

Maynard and Touk Miller accepted $5000 fines for ‘other misconduct’ after making contact with an umpire as the melee erupted.<\/p>\n

A total of 17 players were fined for their roles in the melee, with all of those sanctions accepted.<\/p>\n

Kennedy, meanwhile, was suspended for one game for forceful front-on contact on Caiden Cleary in the Bulldogs’ loss to Sydney, a ban he too is challenging.<\/p>\n

From the same game, Will Lewis (staging), Jordan Croft and Dane Rampe (engaging in a melee\/wrestle) will also challenge their fines with written submissions to the Tribunal<\/p>\n

Jai Newcombe (striking) is also challenging a fine he copped from Hawthorn’s loss to Melbourne on Saturday.<\/p>\n

There were a total of 45 charges in a wild round 17, with all other sanctions accepted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Suns are challenging Ben Long’s ban, with six players appealing their sanctions from round 17 Brayden Maynard…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":779845,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,83,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-784888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-text","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784888","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=784888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/779845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}