The choices of a small group of Swans players have dragged their club’s reputation through the mud for three months.
Police have finished with the Swans, but the club’s own review of its AFL program is far from over. Will it get to the heart of what went wrong?
The league said it reserved the right to investigate if any further relevant information comes to light.
The player who has gained the most – or averted the absolute worst – from the police finding is surely Isaac Heeney.
The choices of a small group of Swans players have dragged their club’s reputation through the mud for three months.
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The four Swans players had been under investigation since August.
Victoria Police will announce shortly the outcome of a months-long inquiry into a night out with Swans players and three exotic dancers in the Pullman East Melbourne hotel.
The player who has gained the most – or averted the absolute worst – from the police finding is surely Isaac Heeney.
Victoria Police will announce shortly the outcome of a months-long inquiry into a night out with Swans players and three exotic dancers in the Pullman East Melbourne hotel.
The league said it reserved the right to investigate if any further relevant information comes to light.
Sydney superstar Chloe Molloy steps up as the Swans beat the Western Bulldogs in a wet and windy AFLW elimination final.
Tom Papley’s roadside drug test failure – the outcome of which is yet to be verified by a secondary sample – can be a positive for the Swans, so to speak, if it forces them to confront the root causes of the Pullman fiasco.
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Jake Niall is a Walkley award-winning sports journalist and chief AFL writer for The Age.
Tom Papley was meant to be a big name in the Tabcorp marquee on Oaks Day, but a roadside drug test put paid to that.
Tom Papley’s roadside drug test failure – the outcome of which is yet to be verified by a secondary sample – can be a positive for the Swans, so to speak, if it forces them to confront the root causes of the Pullman fiasco.
Sydney chief executive Matthew Pavlich expresses "bitter disappointment" after Tom Papley's drug test result hurls the AFL club back into the spotlight.
The AFL is not expected to take punitive action against Swans star Tom Papley for allegedly driving under the influence of an illicit drug until police confirm the second sample for presence of the drug.
Tom Papley returns a positive preliminary drug test after being pulled over by NSW Police, who sprung him driving with a suspended licence.