{"id":80339,"date":"2025-08-19T16:34:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T16:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/80339\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T16:34:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T16:34:18","slug":"afl-news-2025-izak-rankines-ban-for-homophobic-slur-eddie-mcguire-footy-classified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/80339\/","title":{"rendered":"AFL news 2025 | Izak Rankine’s ban for homophobic slur; Eddie McGuire, Footy Classified"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nine’s Eddie McGuire has revealed Adelaide Crows star Izak Rankine will miss the rest of the season with the AFL to hand down a five-match ban for his homophobic slur against a Collingwood player<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“His season is finished in 2025,” McGuire said on Footy Classified.<\/p>\n

“The Adelaide Football Club and Izak Rankine will have the opportunity to appeal the sanction and try and get it reduced because they could argue that it is manifestly unjust.<\/p>\n

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“They will have the next 24 hours, or 12 hours at least, to decide whether or not they mount an appeal.”<\/p>\n

The Crows are currently first going into the final round but now face an uphill battle come finals time without one of their best players. <\/p>\n

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Izak Rankine. \u00a0AFL Photos via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Adelaide great Rory Sloane admitted the length of the ban was expected.<\/p>\n

“That’s a devastating result for the footy club, it’s probably not surprising though,” he said.<\/p>\n

“I think the general feel from the club since they found out was this was always going to be the case. <\/p>\n

Footy Classified is now available as a podcast! Subscribe\/follow via Apple<\/a>, Spotify<\/a> or Google Podcasts<\/a><\/p>\n

“The only choice you have in these situations is to accept it and move on. And that’s what they’ll do.<\/p>\n

“Squads win finals, Bob Murphy missed (finals) for the Bulldogs, Andrew Gaff missed for West Coast, a couple of big games, they still went on to win flags and the whole mentality of that footy club is squads win finals.”<\/p>\n

The expectation next season is the AFL will have a set ban for homophobic and racial slurs, with a matrix around severity and intent. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nine’s Eddie McGuire has revealed Adelaide Crows star Izak Rankine will miss the rest of the season with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80340,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-80339","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\/80339","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=80339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}