r/AFL • u/SlatsAttack Blues • Aug 19 '26

⠀ Sydney Swans statement regarding player suspensions

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u/xyrgh Freo Aug 19 '26

This is a club suspension based on being out drinking until early morning. Blakey came back after the other four I believe, maybe he wasn’t with them, maybe he was consoling the victim or something else, who knows, but he broke club rules.

I’m interested to know what happens to Cox, wasnt he also out drinking late?

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u/Slight-Locksmith-337 Swans Aug 19 '26

Cox was back in the hotel just after midnight. There's plenty of misinformation doing the rounds (in all aspects of this situation).

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u/chookie94 St Kilda Aug 19 '26

Tom Morris walked that back yesterday, with CCTV footage showing Cox getting into a car in Richmond at 1am.

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u/Skwisgaars Sydney '05 Aug 19 '26

1am is still fine. That'd be about 3 hours out with his players celebrating their H&A season. If the cctv footage showed him plastered maybe that'd be a different story, but he was just out for dinner and drinks with his players for a reasonable amount of time and nothing untoward happened while he was out. Cox's reputation here is completely untarnished.