{"id":952065,"date":"2026-11-04T08:06:16","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T08:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/952065\/"},"modified":"2026-11-04T08:06:16","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T08:06:16","slug":"afl-2026-sydney-swans-star-tom-papley-returns-positive-roadside-drug-test-driving-with-suspended-licence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/952065\/","title":{"rendered":"AFL 2026: Sydney Swans star Tom Papley returns positive roadside drug test, driving with suspended licence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sydney Swans star Tom Papley returned a positive preliminary result during a random roadside drug test, the club has confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>The Swans are awaiting the results of a second drug test sample, which will take a month.<\/p>\n<p>He is also set to front court over driving with a suspended licence as a result of an unpaid parking fine.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Wednesday, the Swans said Papley was pulled over by NSW Police for a roadside licence check on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPapley was issued with a court attendance notice for driving with a suspended licence due to non-payment of a parking fine,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuring the roadside stop, Papley completed a random drug test which returned a positive preliminary test indication. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cA second sample was taken for analysis. The results from the second test are expected to take at least four weeks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPapley immediately advised the Club regarding this matter and the Club subsequently informed the AFL.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Club will be making no further comment pending the outcome of the police process.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Papley, 30, has played 216 AFL games for the Swans including the 2016, 2022 and 2024 grand finals.<\/p>\n<p>Originally published as <a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.news.com.au\/sport\/afl\/sydney-swans-star-returns-positive-roadside-drug-test\/news-story\/510f48715e962afd5d3205f50bd007f6\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sydney Swans star returns positive roadside drug test<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sydney Swans star Tom Papley returned a positive preliminary result during a random roadside drug test, the club&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":952066,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[518903,518911,146155,515284,518915,518899,518909,518907,518913,518914,498873,380260,518897,518908,518901,416811,376769,518895,638,518905,13449,518900,518910,64,63,55,639,518894,13052,400724,518904,4277,451696,147516,518898,85,7200,436704,518912,518902,379302,382205,386766,518906,378310,518896,501854,378870,128820,429026,390244,41313],"class_list":["post-952065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-2022-and-2024-grand-finals","tag-216-afl-games","tag-146155","tag-a-court-attendance-notice","tag-a-month-he","tag-a-parking-fine","tag-a-positive-drug-test","tag-a-positive-preliminary-result","tag-a-positive-preliminary-test-indication","tag-a-random-drug-test","tag-a-random-roadside-drug-test","tag-a-result","tag-a-roadside-licence-check","tag-a-second-drug-test-sample","tag-a-second-sample","tag-a-star-player","tag-a-statement","tag-a-suspended-licence","tag-afl","tag-an-unpaid-parking-fine-in","tag-analysis","tag-another-off-field-incident","tag-at-least-four-weeks","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-front-court","tag-monday","tag-no-further-comment","tag-non-payment","tag-nsw-police","tag-papley","tag-positive-drug-test","tag-positive-roadside-drug-test","tag-sports","tag-sydney-swans","tag-sydney-swans-star","tag-sydney-swans-star-tom-papley","tag-the-2016","tag-the-afl","tag-the-club","tag-the-outcome","tag-the-police-process","tag-the-results","tag-the-roadside-stop","tag-the-second-test","tag-the-statement","tag-the-swans","tag-the-sydney-swans","tag-this-matter","tag-wednesday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952065","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=952065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/952066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=952065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=952065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=952065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}