{"id":953592,"date":"2026-11-05T14:08:19","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T14:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/953592\/"},"modified":"2026-11-05T14:08:19","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T14:08:19","slug":"new-details-emerge-in-tom-papley-drug-probe-as-sydney-swans-ceo-issues-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/953592\/","title":{"rendered":"New details emerge in Tom Papley drug probe as Sydney Swans CEO issues statement"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Sydney Swans have launched an independent investigation into the club\u2019s culture as new details emerge in the drug probe involving Tom Papley.<\/p>\n

It was revealed on Wednesday that Papley returned a positive preliminary roadside drug test<\/a> for methylamphetamine during a police stop in NSW on Monday.<\/p>\n

Be the first to know when news breaks. Download our new app<\/a><\/p>\n

The same stop also resulted in a court attendance notice over an allegedly suspended licence linked to an unpaid parking fine.<\/p>\n

Now The Sydney Morning Herald<\/a> is reporting Papley paid the parking fines over the weekend after his licence was suspended on October 29.<\/p>\n

However, he did not call Service NSW to register the payment, so his licence was cancelled one day before police pulled him over.<\/p>\n

The same report claims the AFL will not take any punitive action against Papley until the results of the B sample are confirmed by police.<\/p>\n

It comes after Josh Addo-Carr returned a false positive for cocaine.<\/p>\n

The Papley saga is the latest off-field issue the Swans face after Isaac Heeney, Chad Warner, James Jordon, Riley Bice, and the now departed Nick Blakey were stood down for breaching behavioural standards in August.<\/p>\n

And Swans CEO Matthew Pavlich addressed media on Thursday as he confirmed independent advisers have been brought in to investigate the culture in the wake of another high-profile probe.<\/p>\n

On Papley, Pavlich said: \u201cWe\u2019re bitterly disappointed that we\u2019re here talking about this today. We\u2019re really disappointed in Tom himself. We voiced that pretty directly to him yesterday.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe apologise unreservedly to our members, fans, and corporate partners. We\u2019ve let them down again. We must be better. It\u2019s a really disappointing time for the footy club.\u201d<\/p>\n

On a potential \u201cculture problem\u201d in the club, Pavlich then added: \u201cWe\u2019ve been identifying that over the last eight weeks. We\u2019ve started some deep work in that with our AFL men\u2019s department.<\/p>\n

\"Section<\/p>\n

\u201cIndependent advisers are helping us through that. They\u2019re the questions we\u2019re asking ourselves right now, and asking our players.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pavlich also spoke about the response sponsors have had to yet another saga engulfing the club.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re angry, (but) they\u2019re supportive,\u201d he added. \u201cThey know that over a long period of time the club has upheld really high standards, and I can guarantee them and everyone we\u2019ll continue to do that.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need to be better. This is not something that anyone is stopping short of knowing that we\u2019ve got a long way to go.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve got some deep work to do to understand how we do get better for the future.\u201d<\/p>\n

Originally published as New details emerge in Tom Papley drug probe as Sydney Swans CEO issues statement<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Sydney Swans have launched an independent investigation into the club\u2019s culture as new details emerge in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":953593,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[403287,393880,521256,515284,521257,396176,377825,519216,519205,521273,521284,638,519210,408099,521267,521286,521277,64,521259,63,55,639,521279,215610,521280,462444,1635,505630,521265,3487,138110,4451,1685,54582,521272,378837,103374,44,2733,33373,307881,521263,439251,521276,404134,451696,521271,521262,521258,1158,461649,521255,14418,521270,521274,521281,85,25758,521268,521283,379302,521260,382205,403113,521264,382541,437908,131558,521275,521254,521278,521266,463434,394985,521282,378310,521261,146597,429026,378187,22514,521269,9357,6618,792,22719,521285,41313,93285,521287],"class_list":["post-953592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-s-culture","tag-s-department","tag-s-latest-off-field-saga","tag-a-court-attendance-notice","tag-a-false-positive","tag-a-long-period","tag-a-long-way","tag-a-police-stop","tag-a-positive-preliminary-roadside-drug-test","tag-a-potential-culture-problem","tag-a-really-disappointing-time","tag-afl","tag-an-allegedly-suspended-licence","tag-an-independent-investigation","tag-an-unpaid-parking-fine-now","tag-another-high-profile-probe-on-papley","tag-any-punitive-action","tag-au","tag-august-and","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-behavioural-standards","tag-chad-warner","tag-cocaine-the","tag-corporate-partners","tag-fans","tag-his-licence","tag-independent-advisers","tag-isaac-heeney","tag-james-jordon","tag-josh-addo-carr","tag-media","tag-methylamphetamine","tag-monday-be","tag-new-details","tag-new-information","tag-news","tag-nsw","tag-october","tag-one-day","tag-our-afl-men","tag-our-members","tag-our-new-appthe-same-stop","tag-our-players","tag-papley","tag-papley-drug-probe","tag-papley-saga","tag-pavlich","tag-police","tag-police-it","tag-really-high-standards","tag-riley-bice","tag-same-report","tag-service-nsw","tag-some-deep-work","tag-sports","tag-statement","tag-swans-ceo-matthew-pavlich","tag-sydney-swans-ceo","tag-the-afl","tag-the-b-sample","tag-the-club","tag-the-culture","tag-the-drug-probe","tag-the-first","tag-the-footy-club","tag-the-future","tag-the-last-eight-weeks","tag-the-latest-off-field-issue","tag-the-now-departed-nick-blakey","tag-the-parking-fines","tag-the-payment","tag-the-questions","tag-the-response-sponsors","tag-the-results","tag-the-swans-face","tag-the-sydney-morning-herald","tag-the-sydney-swans","tag-the-wake","tag-the-weekend","tag-this-today","tag-thursday","tag-time","tag-tom","tag-tom-papley","tag-tom-papley-drug-probe","tag-wednesday","tag-yesterday","tag-yet-another-saga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953592","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=953592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/953593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=953592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=953592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=953592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}