St Kilda’s Lance Collard given lengthy ban by AFL for homophobic slur

• AFL tribunal hands out seven-week ban to Saints player

• Collard denied using slur though he had admitted using it in 2024

St Kilda forward Lance Collard has been banned for seven weeks by the AFL tribunal for directing a homophobic slur towards an opponent.

The penalty, which includes a further two-week ban suspended until the end of the 2027 season, was announced at a sanctions hearing on Tuesday afternoon.