{"id":269122,"date":"2025-08-19T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=269122"},"modified":"2025-08-19T14:08:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T04:08:21","slug":"rankines-regret-for-slur-as-afl-verdict-is-imminent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=269122","title":{"rendered":"Rankine\u2019s regret for slur as AFL verdict is imminent"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Izak Rankine is expected to learn his fate on Tuesday as the AFL finalises its investigation into allegations he directed a homophobic comment at a Collingwood opponent at the weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rankine said \u201cf&#8212;-t\u201d once during the match in Adelaide on Saturday night, two competition sources have confirmed. But he did not self-report the comment to the AFL, it was brought to their attention by others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The match-winning midfielder loomed as a trump card for the top-of-the-table Crows in this year\u2019s finals series, but could be ruled out for the rest of the club\u2019s season if he is suspended for four games or more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A suspension of that magnitude would be consistent with other recent on-field matters of homophobic vilification investigated by the AFL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A suspension of that magnitude would be consistent with other recent on-field matters of homophobic vilification investigated by the AFL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":269123,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10578,273,35],"tags":[17804],"class_list":["post-269122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afl","category-australia","category-breaking-news","tag-adelaide-football-club"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=269122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":269124,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269122\/revisions\/269124"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/269123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=269122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=269122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=269122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}