{"id":892685,"date":"2026-09-15T08:42:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T08:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/892685\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T08:42:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T08:42:14","slug":"port-adelaide-accepts-heads-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/892685\/","title":{"rendered":"Port Adelaide accepts Heads ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__summary\">\n                The club will accept Ella Heads\u2019 three-match suspension.\n            <\/p>\n<p>                                    The defender will miss Port Adelaide\u2019s next three matches against Sydney, the Western Bulldogs and Adelaide. Image: AFL Photos.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Port Adelaide will accept Ella Heads\u2019 three-match suspension following an incident involving Melbourne\u2019s Eliza McNamara in Sunday\u2019s game at Casey Fields.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The incident occurred during the fourth quarter and was graded by the Match Review Officer as careless conduct, with severe impact and high contact.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Following a review of comparable charges and the applicable AFL grading system, the club\u2019s legal team has determined there are no reasonable grounds to challenge the impact grading or seek a reduction from severe to high.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While the contact was unintentional, Heads elected to make contact after withdrawing from a tackle, resulting in high contact that met the threshold for severe impact under the AFL\u2019s guidelines.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The club has determined an appeal to the AFL Tribunal would have no reasonable prospect of success and will therefore accept the three-match suspension.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Following the game, Heads reached out to McNamara to apologise that the incident resulted in such a serious injury. Heads and the club wish McNamara all the best for her recovery.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Heads will miss Port Adelaide\u2019s next three matches against Sydney, the Western Bulldogs and Adelaide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The club will accept Ella Heads\u2019 three-match suspension. The defender will miss Port Adelaide\u2019s next three matches against&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":892686,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-892685","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\/892685","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=892685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/892686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=892685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=892685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=892685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}