AFL host Tony Jones has called for Richmond to terminate Sydney Stack and Callum Coleman-Jones’ contracts.
Stack and Coleman-Jones were suspended for 10 matches and banished from the club’s Queensland hub after breaking the AFL’s return to play protocols.
The Tigers were also fined $100,000 with the money to come out of the club’s football department soft cap in 2021.
"I would have sacked them,” Jones told Channel Nine’s Sunday Footy Show.
“What gets me is people have lost their jobs in the AFL and at Richmond, these two blokes along with their teammates are in a privileged position whereby they can go and kick a football and get paid well for it – and they still can’t abide by the rules which have been set out.
“There should be no second chances - they should be sacked.”
Coleman Medallist Scott Cummings says Stack and Coleman-Jones’ “selfish” actions should result in them paying the fine.
“What about all the people, I’m talking about the thousands of people the AFL employ directly and indirectly, their jobs are on the line, their livelihoods are on the line, and these two knuckleheads knowingly break the most obvious of rules,” Cummings told AFL Nation.
“They are basically saying, ‘I couldn’t give a stuff about you’.
“The AFLPA, which by and large does a really good job, but all they’re doing now is protecting them.
“The AFLPA’s job is not to protect players, they’re grown-ups, they’re adults. If you stuff up as monumentally as this, you need to be held accountable.
“So once again, players will just go, ‘It’s cost me some footy, but it won’t come out of my pocket’.
“If they keep their jobs and three people don’t or two people don’t, they need to look after those people next year, they need to give them their wages.”
"I would have sacked them."
— Footy on Nine (@FootyonNine) September 6, 2020
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