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Bombshell report claims Freo star to hunt commerce, league responds as audio reveals umps lied over Schultz incident

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May 13, 2025
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Fremantle star Luke Jackson is ready to request a commerce again to Melbourne on the finish of the season.

In response to a bombshell report in The West Australian, the 23-year previous ruckman, who departed the Demons in 2022 to affix the Dockers on a whopping seven-year deal, needs out simply three years into his contract, amid rumours of off-field private points.

“The West Australian understands Jackson needs to return to the Demons – the place he gained a premiership in 2021 – on the again of great off-field points which himself, the membership and administration have addressed in latest weeks,” the report reads.

That contract, which doesn’t expire till 2029, is ready to present the Dockers vital bargaining energy in any potential commerce, with Demons ahead Kysaiah Pickett – who has been rumoured to be eager on a transfer to Western Australia and even reportedly messaged Fremantle gamers earlier this 12 months saying he could be carrying purple in 2025 – all however sure to type a part of any commerce, regardless of Dees president Brad Inexperienced remaining adamant Pickett is a required participant.

Jackson, who barracked for the Dockers as a baby, grew up in Western Australia and performed consultant soccer for the state as a junior earlier than being chosen by the Demons with choose 3 within the 2019 nationwide draft.

After debuting within the COVID-interrupted 2020 season, he broke out spectacularly as a 19-year previous in 2021, claiming the AFL Rising Star Award and showing in Melbourne’s drought-breaking grand last win over the Western Bulldogs, enjoying an important function within the ruck through the Demons’ well-known third-quarter burst that noticed them overturn a 19-point deficit to win by 74 factors.

Luke Jackson.

Luke Jackson. (Picture by Daniel Pockett/Getty Photographs)

He sought a commerce on the finish of the 2022 season which netted the Dees choose 13 and Fremantle’s first and second-round 2023 draft picks, however issues haven’t turned out as deliberate for Jackson or the Dockers because the high-profile transfer was made.

After a breakthrough finals sequence in 2022, the Dockers have missed September in consecutive seasons since Jackson joined the membership, and are off to a poor 4-5 begin in 2025, with frequent criticism of the membership’s use of Jackson and Sean Darcy as twin rucks.

The 23-year previous’s private life has additionally proved troublesome, with SEN reporting earlier this 12 months Jackson and girlfriend Kelsey Browne spent a lot of the low season with Browne’s household on the Victorian surf coast.

It was initially reported in March Jackson was considering a return to Victoria, with the Demons and Geelong amongst a number of golf equipment eager to lure him again throughout the Nullarbor.

Dockers coach Justin Longmuir dismissed commerce rumours earlier, responding ‘Nothing’ when requested at a press convention whether or not his views on Jackson remaining on the membership had modified.

Nevertheless, Demons captain and Jackson’s premiership teammate Max Gawn cryptically hinted at his return to pink and blue colors in an look on Triple M on Monday.

“WA is an unbelievable to put to be whenever you’re 18, 19 … these Perth boys return at 22 and all their mates have type of grown up a bit,” Gawn stated.

“There’s so many individuals that received a commerce again to WA after which got here again – not mentioning one which probably may very well be coming again quickly … let’s hope!”

‘Blatant lie’: AFL, umpires slammed as audio reveals mistruths in Schultz concussion response

The AFL and its umpiring division are beneath hearth after unique audio on Seven’s The Agenda Setters revealed a ‘blatant lie’ within the league’s reporting of Collingwood ahead Lachie Schultz’s concussion.

Schultz was knocked out late within the third quarter of the Magpies’ win over Fremantle on Thursday evening after a nasty collision with Jordan Clark, with play controversially allowed to proceed as he first lay immobile on the Optus Stadium turf, then staggered from the sphere with the help of Magpies trainers.

On Friday, the AFL launched a press release saying the umpires ‘didn’t see’ Schultz being concussed.

“Upon assessment, if umpires have been conscious, play would have been stopped when [Josh] Daicos had possession in the course of the bottom,” the assertion reads.

Nevertheless, umpire mic audio reveals the 4 umpires – together with veteran pair Craig Fleer and Simon Meredith – mentioned Schultz instantly following the incident, with an umpire even explaining to a Magpies participant that they weren’t capable of cease play.

“We are able to solely cease it if the ball’s coming in the direction of … or in the event that they instruct us to cease. I perceive, however that’s what we’re instructed to make use of,” the umpire stated.

“Acquired an injured participant within the center. I am watching.”

Unique imaginative and prescient and audio of the umpires acknowledging Lachie Schultz’s damage, obtained by The Agenda Setters. pic.twitter.com/uas5GevK5s

— 7AFL (@7AFL) Might 13, 2025

On The Agenda Setters, reporter Caroline Wilson revealed the league and AFL common supervisor Laura Kane have been solely made conscious of the audio when contacted by her, saying the 4 umpires have been ‘strongly counselled’ on Tuesday afternoon, with the umpires’ motive for the misreporting given as them having ‘had no reminiscence of seeing the incident’.

Kane launched a brand new assertion to this system admitting the error.

“The assertion we launched was incorrect, however we got the improper info from the umpires. It’s inconsistent with the imaginative and prescient,” the assertion reads.

“They [the umpires] have been going off reminiscence and never the imaginative and prescient and we should always all the time take a look at the imaginative and prescient.

“All the sphere umpires from the sport have all been coached this afternoon that they need to have stopped the sport.

“Having stated that, that is on me. It’s the footy division that runs umpiring and that sits with me.”

#EXCLUSIVE: Laura Kane’s assertion ????

The assertion we launched was incorrect, however we got the improper info from the umpires.

It is inconsistent with the imaginative and prescient.

They (the umpires) have been going off reminiscence and never the imaginative and prescient and we should always all the time take a look at the imaginative and prescient.

All… https://t.co/aNOL8sabXf

— 7AFL (@7AFL) Might 13, 2025

In response, former greats Luke Hodge and Kane Cornes have been scathing of the umpires, with Hodge deeming it a ‘blatant lie’ and Cornes calling for vital suspensions to be handed out.

“You may’t say they didn’t discover as a result of there was communication, so at the least two of them knew what was happening, whereas the opposite two centered on the play. Then they’ve blatantly lied,” Hodge stated.

“That was the most important factor to return out of that soccer sport … for the umpires to say they couldn’t do not forget that, I discover that very exhausting to consider.”

Cornes believes the AFL must ‘make a press release’ in opposition to the 4 umpires, who ‘shouldn’t be umpiring for a month’.

“If 4 umpires have all forgotten the identical greatest incident of the weekend, I’d be completely shocked at that,” he stated.

“In an period the place we droop gamers for tackles for 3 weeks … if this isn’t the most important sanction to an umpire that’s been handed down in latest reminiscence, I feel these guys shouldn’t be umpiring for a month.

“Collingwood ought to be ropeable, Lachie Schultz ought to be ropeable, his household ought to be ropeable and I’d be completely staggered if these 4 umpires umpire once more within the subsequent month.”



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