WATCH: Local footballer faces life ban, club may be deregistered after savage attacks in game

Mick Stirling

WATCH: Local footballer faces life ban, club may be deregistered after savage attacks in game image

An entire South Australian football club is in danger of being kicked out of the Adelaide Football League after one player was booked four times in the club’s division six qualifying final last weekend.

Salisbury West is unlikely to be allowed to play this week’s second semi-final after player Adam Jones was charged with striking, kicking and undue rough play in a number of incidents spread through the match against Trinity Old Scholars.

All four incidents were caught on film, including a savage knee to opponent Carl Teusner’s head, breaking his jaw.

It’s expected Jones will receive a lifetime ban from all football leagues after the violent match.

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While the incidents could cost Jones his footballing future and the club it's very existence, the result of the match, which Salisbury West won by nine points, will stand.

“The result of the match will not be reversed, however pending Wednesday night’s outcomes (at the tribunal), may require the league to amend the composition of the division six and six reserves finals,” a league spokesman told the Northern Weekly Messenger.


 

Another club, Salisbury North, was ejected from the competition in June after a player received an eight-match ban for striking despite the club having been placed on a final warning.

Salisbury West is understood to also be on a final warning already.

“After repeated failings, we simply arrive at the point where one person can cost the whole club,” Adelaide Football League chief executive John Kernahan told Nine News in Adelaide.

“And we don’t apologise for that.”

Mick Stirling