Oh, lads....
Young Giants player Josh Fahey has been handed a four-week suspension, with five teammates copping shorter bans, as the AFL comes down hard on their controversial post-season dress-ups event.
The league has sanctioned 13 GWS players after the Wacky Wednesday party, which had the theme of ‘Controversial Couples’, saw many Giants dressing up in distasteful outfits and acting out offensive skits.
Fahey has copped the heaviest ban having dressed up as Jarryd Hayne, the former NRL star jailed in 2023 for sexual assault who had his conviction overturned earlier this year, and engaged in a skit with a blow-up doll.
Jake Riccardi, Toby McMullin, Harvey Thomas, Joe Fonti and the delisted Cooper Hamilton have all been handed two-game suspensions. The AFL explained:
- Riccardi dressed up as a taxi driver and partnered Fahey as Hayne, though did not engage with the sex doll;
- McMullin and Hamilton simulated the September 11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center;
- McMullin and Hamilton simulated the September 11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center;
'Thomas “dressed as a particular pro sportsman and Fonti as a girl, acting inappropriately during their skit”;
- Connor Idun (who has Ghanaian heritage) and Lachie Whitfield “enacted a scene from the movie Django Unchained, characterising slavery”.
PAFC. Forever.
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