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Injured AFLW player Bríd Stack left totally disheartened after appeals board cleared Ebony Marinoff
Injured GWS Giants player Bríd Stack has written about her “anger” and “disillusionment” after Adelaide star Ebony Marinoff was cleared by the tribunal after a collision that left Stack with a broken neck.
Key points:
- Bríd Stack wrote in her newspaper column that she had been left “totally disheartened” when Ebony Marinoff was cleared of dangerous contact
- Stack wrote that she felt like a “scapegoat” because she was a “rookie” player.
- Stack won 11 All-Ireland titles with County Cork and was named Gaelic footballer of the Year in 2016
Marinoff was handed a three-game ban — the longest ever handed down to an AFLW player — for her role in the incident, but that was overturned after a three-and-a-half-hour hearing on Thursday night.
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