{"id":798335,"date":"2026-07-13T21:21:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T21:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/798335\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T21:21:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T21:21:15","slug":"battered-bombers-facing-possibility-of-monster-fine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/798335\/","title":{"rendered":"Battered Bombers facing possibility of monster fine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__summary\">\n                The Match Review findings from Sunday&#8217;s round 18 games are in\n            <\/p>\n<p>                                Sullivan Robey handballs during Essendon&#8217;s clash against North Melbourne in round 16, 2026. Picture: Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>ESSENDON is the latest club facing a hefty fine for repeated umpire contact offences.<\/p>\n<p>Young Bombers Sullivan Robey and Angus Clarke were cited for making careless contact with an umpire during the loss to Brisbane on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Unless the Bombers successfully challenge the findings at the Tribunal this week, those two offences make it five for the season for Essendon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.afl.com.au\/news\/1537914\/three-clubs-collingwood-gold-coast-and-the-western-bulldogs-on-verge-of-huge-fines-as-part-of-crackdown-on-umpire-contact\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">As reported by AFL.com.au<\/a>, the AFL wrote to clubs in May to remind them that five or more instances of umpire contact in a season could result in a fine of up to $50,000.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.afl.com.au\/news\/1542531\/gold-coast-suns-fined-20000-for-multiple-umpire-contact-incidents\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">The Suns were fined $20,000 last month<\/a> after being charged with five instances of umpire contact.<\/p>\n<p>Brisbane, Collingwood, Fremantle, North Melbourne, Sydney and the Western Bulldogs have all had players cited four times.<\/p>\n<p>More to come &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Match Review findings from Sunday&#8217;s round 18 games are in Sullivan Robey handballs during Essendon&#8217;s clash against&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":798336,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,83,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-798335","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\/798335","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=798335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/798336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}