Adelaide Oval pitch invader banned from AFL and AFLW video games for all times

The AFL has given a lifetime ban to a person who ran onto Adelaide Oval and disrupted a recreation.

The 22-year-old from northern Adelaide invaded the bottom throughout Adelaide’s AFL match in opposition to Geelong on March 22.

Showing to be recording the episode on his cell phone, he not solely entered the world however ran straight into the motion as gamers scrambled for a contested ball.

After an umpire stopped play, the person was grabbed by Crows midfielder Matt Crouch earlier than breaking free, solely to be collared by Adelaide’s Ben Keays earlier than safety pounced.

The AFL on Wednesday stated the person has been banned for all times from attending AFL and AFLW matches at any venue.

“Working onto the bottom throughout a match will not be solely mindless however it’s unsafe and illegal,” the AFL’s common counsel Stephen Meade stated.

“For those who select to do it, then you’ll not solely be given a big superb however you should have cope with native authorities and in the end lose the privilege of attending AFL matches.”

The person was arrested on the evening and bailed to seem in Adelaide Magistrates Courtroom on June 19.

He faces a most superb of $5,000 for breaching South Australia’s Recreation Grounds Laws.

The AFL stated the person, who was not a membership or AFL member, may apply to have his ban reviewed after a five-year interval.

Coaches of Adelaide and Geelong blasted the “harmful” pitch invader, with the Cats’ Chris Scott referencing the notorious 1982 incident when Australian Take a look at cricketer Terry Alderman dislocated a shoulder when tackling a pitch invader in Perth.

Scott’s Adelaide counterpart, Matthew Nicks, spoke of the hazard to the 2 Crows gamers, Crouch and Keays, who grabbed the invader.

The incident was one in every of a number of pitch invasions this season, with two spectators working onto the MCG throughout Geelong’s victory over Hawthorn on Easter Monday.

Whereas the incident in Adelaide was throughout play, each followers throughout the Hawthorn match ran onto the sector whereas play was suspended on account of a lightning warning.

Safety guards had been ultimately unfold out throughout the bottom because the groups waited within the rooms for the hazard to go.

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