AFL chief government Andrew Dillon is not going to be drawn on how Jeremy Finlayson’s homophobic insult compares to different slurs because the league ponders a punishment for the Port Adelaide ahead.
Finlayson directed a homophobic slur in direction of an Essendon participant in the course of the third quarter of the Energy’s 69-point victory over the Bombers at Adelaide Oval on Friday evening.
It’s understood an umpire’s microphone picked up the insult, which was heard by a number of gamers, and a minimum of one Essendon participant additionally known as it out.
The 28-year-old apologised to the goal of his slur following the match, and on Sunday made a proper apology, describing his phrases as “unacceptable”.
Dillon was requested how Finlayson’s remark measured as much as a racial slur.
“We take all of them actually critically and I do not suppose you’ll be able to evaluate and distinction,” he stated.
“However all of them are totally different. We do not like them and that is why we’re wanting into it and that is why there will be an accountability.”
What that “accountability” might be stays unclear, with suspensions and fines among the many choices.
Final month, North Melbourne coach Alastair Clarkson was fined $20,000 and given a suspended two-match ban for abusing St Kilda defenders Jimmy Webster and Dougal Howard throughout a pre-season sport.
Clarkson was requested to elucidate his actions to the AFL after allegedly utilizing the homophobic slur “c*******er” in the course of the observe match.
In 2021, Adelaide ahead Taylor Walker obtained a six-game ban for uttering a racist comment a couple of rival reserves participant.
Dillon wouldn’t put a particular timeframe on the Finlayson punishment, however confirmed it could be handed down earlier than the subsequent spherical, which begins on Thursday.
“We take these allegations very critically, so we’ll run a full investigation,” he stated.
“There might be an accountability for Jeremy on the finish of that investigation. The time line on it’s will probably be achieved earlier than the subsequent spherical of matches.
“I do not suppose there’s anywhere for that wherever, not to mention the league.
“We take this actually critically and I would favor to run a correct investigation and a correct course of to get to the correct final result.”
Requested whether or not a punishment for Finlayson ought to be a “captain’s name” made by him, Dillon indicated that lay with soccer boss Laura Kane and basic counsel Stephen Meade.
“We have actually in depth guidelines and rules that cope with that and finally it is a name for our head of soccer and our basic counsel, they usually’ll make that once they’ve acquired all the knowledge in entrance of them,” he stated.
Dillon was talking at a post-Collect Spherical press convention, the place the AFL and the SA authorities introduced the Barossa Valley would host a sport in 2025.
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