{"id":78743,"date":"2025-08-19T01:14:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T01:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/78743\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T01:14:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T01:14:09","slug":"remorseful-adelaide-star-awaits-afl-suspension-verdict-on-slur-directed-at-collingwood-opponent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/78743\/","title":{"rendered":"Remorseful Adelaide star awaits AFL suspension verdict on slur directed at Collingwood opponent"},"content":{"rendered":"

Izak Rankine is expected to learn his fate on Tuesday as the AFL finalises its investigation into allegations he directed a homophobic comment at a Collingwood opponent at the weekend.<\/p>\n

Rankine said \u201cf—-t\u201d once during the match in Adelaide on Saturday night, two competition sources have confirmed. But he did not self-report the comment to the AFL, it was brought to their attention by others.<\/p>\n

\"Adelaide\u2019s<\/p>\n

Adelaide\u2019s Izak Rankine celebrates a goal against Hawthorn on August 1.Credit: Getty Images<\/p>\n

The match-winning midfielder loomed as a trump card for the top-of-the-table Crows in this year\u2019s finals series, but could be ruled out for the rest of the club\u2019s season if he is suspended for four games or more.<\/p>\n

A suspension of that magnitude would be consistent with other recent on-field matters of homophobic vilification investigated by the AFL.<\/p>\n

Teammate Taylor Walker said Rankine was \u201cvery remorseful\u201d and ready to accept whatever penalty the AFL imposes on him.<\/p>\n

\u201cI spoke to him [Rankine] last night on the phone and he is very remorseful and he understands that he\u2019s made a mistake and he\u2019ll accept whatever comes his way,\u201d Walker told Triple M Breakfast in Adelaide on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Walker would have some understanding of Rankine\u2019s position, given he was banned for six games and fined $20,000 in 2021 following an AFL investigation that found he\u2019d racially vilified a SANFL player, an act he said at the time he was \u201cdeeply ashamed\u201d of.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe [Rankine] hasn\u2019t been outside and he had a full day of investigation with the AFL yesterday,\u201d Walker said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Izak Rankine is expected to learn his fate on Tuesday as the AFL finalises its investigation into allegations…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78744,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-78743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78743","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=78743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}