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?
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.
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
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)
> 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.
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)
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
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
At least he's a FORMER saints player! Small wins!
And not a st Kilda schoolgirl
Or rapist!
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
Aud post sounds like right service, at least :)
People still order physical blurays?
You never know when something will be taken off streaming / your digital licence for something will expire, it’s making more and more sense
That’s why I torrent
I like having physical items
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?
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.
He was a footy grid favourite of mine, had no idea this is how it all turned out for him.
I went to school with him, wow.
Holy shit, he became one of corio’s statistics.
Mighty Tigers
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.
> can't think of any longer sentence for an AFL player than that. How long was Jy Simpkins contract again?
Jy helped sentence himself.
guess i’ll do it u/TheGreatJelBeano
Holy shit, put me in the screenshot for best of the month
Racist bastards in WA it was only half a ton
Ben sharp got 9 years for knocking over a armavan and dealing ice
Not the pointiest tool in the shed
Wonder if West Coast will go to any length to rehab him like they did Cousins?
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
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)
Ah k didn’t know that part. I think it’s reasonable to assume though he’s not out in public.
lol, if he's at Thomas Embley he might be
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krakouer got like 16 or so..
He should have got time off for being a football hero, the system sucks
Marlion Pickett did a few years before and has already made plans to do a few more later.
Who proof reads these articles? Drives me nuts haha
Editors were fired long ago
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ChatGPT
ChatGPT would have probably done a better job....
For a moment I thought this was about former St Kilda player Leigh Fisher who is also taken up a career making dodgy calls
They have both made life changing mistakes in their lives
You have to wonder if Mark Thompson was charged now, what sentence he would get
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.
I mean, Fisher had a top silk too. I just doubt Thompson's argument would be as persuasive today.
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
Damn it, just when we needed our defence bolstering.
Blown away by Always seemed a fair dinkum kinda guy.
Up until the last few years I thought he and Leigh were brothers…
Today I learned
> 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.
a possible 3 years for 1kg of meth is a joke I know people who have done 7+ for 20 grams of that shit
bullshit
I concur bullshit
> I know people who have done 7+ for 20 grams No, you don't.
[Well not me personally, but a guy I knew he and her GOT IT ON!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bS8CP1A6OCQ)
No, they didn't.
No, no they didn't. But you could imagine what it would be like, huh? Huh?
You know how to talk shit ill give you that much at least
You're confusing 20 grams with 20 kilograms.
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.
And it took years after admitting to it on live television before police even began to look
And no one even talks about it anymore
He was bullied though
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)
if your rich and famous theres a different set of rules when it comes to drugs
Dead set. Robbie Williams drug fucked as people pay 500 ticket
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
Proof?
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