{"id":903542,"date":"2026-09-24T09:02:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T09:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/903542\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T09:02:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T09:02:11","slug":"lachie-neale-afl-tribunal-appeal-live-lachie-neale-cleared-to-play-in-afl-grand-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/903542\/","title":{"rendered":"Lachie Neale AFL tribunal appeal LIVE: Lachie Neale cleared to play in AFL grand final"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>This is a stunning decision by the AFL\u2019s appeals board, one that will divide opinion on the eve of the grand final.<\/p>\n<p>As foolish as it was for Lachie Neale to do what he did and place himself at risk of a suspension, the penalty of missing a grand final appeared manifestly excessive for what he did.<\/p>\n<p>This is where the AFL\u2019s provisions for a player\u2019s exemplary record needed to be exercised. If they do not apply to a dual Brownlow medallist who had not been suspended in 320 games in grand final week, then when should they be used?<\/p>\n<p>What price to play in a grand final? There will never be a person as happy to be fined $10,000 as Lachie Neale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This is a stunning decision by the AFL\u2019s appeals board, one that will divide opinion on the eve&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":903543,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-903542","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\/903542","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=903542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/903543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=903542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=903542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=903542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}