Banned Swans players excluded from Brownlows

The AFL confirmed that Isaac Heeney, Nick Blakey, Chad Warner, Riley Bice, and James Jordon will not be invited to the prestigious award event. The players were stood down by the Swans for breaching club standards, including drinking and bringing women back to their hotel during a recent trip to Melbourne.

'The way we treat women says a lot about who we are,' said AFL chief executive Andrew Dillon, who addressed the media for the first time since the players were suspended. The league is delaying its own inquiry until the police investigation into an alleged sexual assault at a Melbourne hotel is concluded. beltedkingfisher.blog