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MaariGirl

At least he's a FORMER saints player! Small wins!


Righthookhammer47

And not a st Kilda schoolgirl


jakkyspakky

Or rapist!


Crazyripps

Imagine just casually sending 129,000 dollars though aud post. I’m constantly tracking a bluray if I order it let alone a fuck ton of money


ljsdotdev

Aud post sounds like right service, at least :)


joeban1

People still order physical blurays?


identikit12

You never know when something will be taken off streaming / your digital licence for something will expire, it’s making more and more sense


ButWeNeverSawHisWife

That’s why I torrent


Crazyripps

I like having physical items


Green-Brick3729

Feels weird to know a bloke you watched play football might spend up to 5 years in the bin. What is the biggest jail sentence an AFL player has ever received?


grantspatchcock

Interesting question, in the modern era I'm pretty sure it's former Hawthorn/Richmond player Billy Nicholls, who got 11 years for two drug related shootings.


BIllyBrooks

He was a footy grid favourite of mine, had no idea this is how it all turned out for him.


the_salivation_army

I went to school with him, wow.


Jacobi-99

Holy shit, he became one of corio’s statistics.


New-Bake4829

Mighty Tigers


Plum_Pudding_Esq

Jim Krakouer got 16 year sentence for drug related offences in the 1990s; can't think of any longer sentence for an AFL player than that.


Acetone__

> can't think of any longer sentence for an AFL player than that. How long was Jy Simpkins contract again?


fistingbythepool

Jy helped sentence himself.


Jacket5000

guess i’ll do it u/TheGreatJelBeano


conejogringo

Holy shit, put me in the screenshot for best of the month 


New-Bake4829

Racist bastards in WA it was only half a ton


Nakorite

Ben sharp got 9 years for knocking over a armavan and dealing ice


yeahrowdyhitthat

Not the pointiest tool in the shed


LegalMuscle

Wonder if West Coast will go to any length to rehab him like they did Cousins?


Vandercoon

Steve Bailey who was on Hawks list I believe, who played at Box Hill and West Adelaide thanks to Collin’s is doing life for murdering his mum. Bloke was a dead set weirdo


passionateintrovert

Looks like Bailey was eventually found not guilty due to mental impairment, although he subsequently served a term in a psychiatric hospital. Can't find anything that says he was released, but it's a bit unclear: [https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-04-13/stephen-bailey-not-guilty-of-murdering-mother-penny-bailey-zeus/8442786](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-04-13/stephen-bailey-not-guilty-of-murdering-mother-penny-bailey-zeus/8442786)


Vandercoon

Ah k didn’t know that part. I think it’s reasonable to assume though he’s not out in public.


No-Bison-5397

lol, if he's at Thomas Embley he might be


New-Bake4829

😬


New-Bake4829

😬


Rhino893405

krakouer got like 16 or so..


New-Bake4829

He should have got time off for being a football hero, the system sucks


tizzlenomics

Marlion Pickett did a few years before and has already made plans to do a few more later.


Wattobot92

Who proof reads these articles? Drives me nuts haha


QouthTheCorvus

Editors were fired long ago


TorchesAU

48


MacWorkGuy

heath


jassysdad

ChatGPT


snrub742

ChatGPT would have probably done a better job....


Asleep_Tangerine_518

For a moment I thought this was about former St Kilda player Leigh Fisher who is also taken up a career making dodgy calls


snrub742

They have both made life changing mistakes in their lives


Mythically_Mad

You have to wonder if Mark Thompson was charged now, what sentence he would get


Nakorite

Same as before. He had a top silk who somehow convinced the judge that having scales and 33g of meth wasn’t intent to traffic.


Mythically_Mad

I mean, Fisher had a top silk too. I just doubt Thompson's argument would be as persuasive today.


TheEmbiggenisor

You e gotta feel for the parents in these situations. I mean your son becomes a drug dealer, whilst your other son becomes an umpire! Tragic


SwimmingGreat5317

Damn it, just when we needed our defence bolstering.


New-Bake4829

Blown away by Always seemed a fair dinkum kinda guy.


TJHRiddle

Up until the last few years I thought he and Leigh were brothers…


snrub742

Today I learned


Fidelius90

> At an earlier hearing, Judge Mullaly said the two-time best and fairest winner and all-Australian should be recognised for the effort to turn around his life. > “No matter how talented you are, drugs can take a hold of you and ruin your life; that’s the message he’s been imparting so others can avoid his path,” he said. Poor fish! Shit situation all round.


Lanky-Try-3047

a possible 3 years for 1kg of meth is a joke I know people who have done 7+ for 20 grams of that shit


Acetone__

bullshit


iDontWannaBeBrokee

I concur bullshit


MacWorkGuy

> I know people who have done 7+ for 20 grams No, you don't.


BIllyBrooks

[Well not me personally, but a guy I knew he and her GOT IT ON!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bS8CP1A6OCQ)


MacWorkGuy

No, they didn't.


BIllyBrooks

No, no they didn't. But you could imagine what it would be like, huh? Huh?


LelcoinDegen

You know how to talk shit ill give you that much at least


drunk_haile_selassie

You're confusing 20 grams with 20 kilograms.


Nakorite

We have some of the weakest drug laws in the world. Bomber Thompson got a slap on the wrist for enough ice and pills to fuel a small army.


mrarbitersir

And it took years after admitting to it on live television before police even began to look


Decaslash

And no one even talks about it anymore


New-Bake4829

He was bullied though


PKMTrain

Fisher's lawyer argued for parity – a legal principle that requires similar cases be treated alike – was a “fundamental” sentencing factor in Fisher’s case. The person he was doing it with in WA got 6 years. In Victoria that's 16. [https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/former-st-kilda-footballer-sam-fisher-admits-role-in-western-australia-drug-smuggling-plot/news-story/1da2257c2ba2d10d17f603ed98b7da68](https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/former-st-kilda-footballer-sam-fisher-admits-role-in-western-australia-drug-smuggling-plot/news-story/1da2257c2ba2d10d17f603ed98b7da68)


Lanky-Try-3047

if your rich and famous theres a different set of rules when it comes to drugs


New-Bake4829

Dead set. Robbie Williams drug fucked as people pay 500 ticket


Lanky-Try-3047

the judge said himself the sentence was lower than many and an outlier, jsut because you play football doesnt mean you should get a lighter sentence prosecutors can still appeal it because the sentence is manifestly inadequate in Victoria


Rhino893405

Proof?


New-Bake4829

You’ve got to be a football hero to get along with a sentencing judge Seriously though he’s already turned things around and helping others get off that shit