Alleged incident at hotel on Sunday night

[The Big Cat]

They have screwed up themselves, but the club making a OTT decision without a view to further review pending a Police investigation is throwing them under the bus. This is a bigger circus going fwd than it had to be.

Lost trust with playing group etc etc

There isnt a player in that group that doesn't want to play the 1st final without them. Playing group would have been happy with a Suspension and hefty fine til finals/outcome.

Love the Swans hypocrisy of the AFLW team and overshadowing their first win of the season and first double header..... Clearly no issue talking about the overshadowing or impact of their footy season

Take the assault charge out of it for the moment, the suspensions would have been the same.

[stevoswan]

I think every club has had moments they are not proud of. As a Swans member I like to said "I am not impressed with board's decision" . It appears they are bowing down to the woke media and the feminists of this world. My first reaction was a substantial fine with the money going to charity,25,000 plus and then the suspension until the facts are presented in a police report , maybe 2-3 weeks maybe 4-5 weeks.and not say rest of the season. Also talk of drugs found. Why were the 5 players concerned not drug tested? It seems the board care nothing about members and only outside sources. If we lose both finals by 20 goals, who does it benefit? I guess the feminist will be happy even though they will not even watch one minute of the game.If the allegations are true then impose severe penalties, if they are made up stories I will be very upset.

"Woke" media....there's that lazy word again. Just stop it.

[UUaswan]

It will be interesting to see what the fall out re the retention of the 5 players are. Those that have got contracts (long term ones being Heeney and Blakey) vs those that have a decision to make within the next one or two years (Warner and Jordon). Not sure what Bice contract status is.

Independent of the club taking on position on the 5 players individually, I wonder whether the players mindset will be
a) I am tainted and have lost the trust of the club/playing group/want a "fresh start" and will want to move on.. or
b) whether they would feel a duty to right their wrongs and prove that they want to redeem themselves at the club.

This I think will give you a fair insight into them as characters and the loyalty to the club

They have screwed up themselves, but the club making a OTT decision without a view to further review pending a Police investigation is throwing them under the bus. This is a bigger circus going fwd than it had to be.

Lost trust with playing group etc etc

There isnt a player in that group that doesn't want to play the 1st final without them. Playing group would have been happy with a Suspension and hefty fine til finals/outcome.

Love the Swans hypocrisy of the AFLW team and overshadowing their first win of the season and first double header..... Clearly no issue talking about the overshadowing or impact of their footy season

[Syd76]

It will be interesting to see what the fall out re the retention of the 5 players are. Those that have got contracts (long term ones being Heeney and Blakey) vs those that have a decision to make within the next one or two years (Warner and Jordon). Not sure what Bice contract status is.

Independent of the club taking on position on the 5 players individually, I wonder whether the players mindset will be
a) I am tainted and have lost the trust of the club/playing group/want a "fresh start" and will want to move on.. or
b) whether they would feel a duty to right their wrongs and prove that they want to redeem themselves at the club.

This I think will give you a fair insight into them as characters and the loyalty to the club

[Nico]

You miss the point UUA.

The club has performed its own investigation in relation to the clubs own standards - part of which maybe to conduct oneself so as to not bring the players or ultimately the club into disrepute.. The facts as have become known to the club on Monday morning were acted upon. At the time when this all aired on Monday morning, there was no allegation that drugs were involved. This only really became apparent the next day.

By drug testing for coke or whatever substance is alleged to have been taken, in parallel once a police investigation is underway can been seen to prejudice an investigation and so the judicial process. So to separate the two investigations -

1. The Police Investigation most likely (as has been reported) is in relation to Sexual or Assault (and potentially anything in relation to substances).
2. The clubs sanctions are in relation to their own internal standards - which have been breached. The club has been at pains to say the penalties are not in relation to the SA and to any substances.

Hopefully that is clear.

If the players were'nt drug tested the next day then surely the bird has flown on that one.