{"id":573349,"date":"2026-08-19T03:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T03:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/573349\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T03:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T03:12:09","slug":"sydney-swans-stand-down-five-players-for-rest-of-afl-season-after-alleged-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/573349\/","title":{"rendered":"Sydney Swans stand down five players for rest of AFL season after alleged incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">The team defeated Essendon at the Melbourne Cricket Ground earlier that night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe\u2019re still piecing together exactly what\u2019s transpired here and have our own set of internal enquiries ongoing,\u201d Swans chief executive Matthew Pavlich said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cIt\u2019s safe to say that we\u2019re extremely shocked and disappointed that this has taken place and that the players have found themselves in this situation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe understand the level of interest in the matter. There\u2019s going to be lots of speculation, but given it\u2019s a police matter right now, that is all that we can say.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">Asked whether anyone had been arrested, he replied: \u201cAs I said, it\u2019s a police matter ongoing. I\u2019m not going to comment any further on it right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">The Swans face 13th-placed North Melbourne on Sunday before they take a week off in the first round of the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">&#8211; with AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The team defeated Essendon at the Melbourne Cricket Ground earlier that night. \u201cWe\u2019re still piecing together exactly what\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":573350,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[39869,74,1554,6097,1342,2082,305,671,123,111,139,69,1118,10702,111381,766,28029,6926,213,14446,17218,170448,1734,7187],"class_list":["post-573349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-afl","tag-after","tag-alleged","tag-down","tag-five","tag-for","tag-have","tag-incident","tag-melbourne","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-players","tag-remainder","tag-reports","tag-rest","tag-season","tag-sports","tag-stand","tag-stood","tag-swans","tag-sydney","tag-team"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/573350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}