Sydney, NSW

Five banned Sydney Swans players could return to club as early as this week

21 Sept 2026 17:03 AEST Summary

From the report

The five Sydney players at the heart of a police investigation into a Melbourne hotel sex assault are set to return to the club this week.

This is a summary. The indicators are not. The scores were measured over this summary alone, which is less of the article than we would like and makes them less certain.

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Niral Score 4.7 mundaneloaded

None in this text. Words that carry a fact and quoted words are not counted.

club2five2players2return2week2

Sentiment -0.1 hostilefavourable Sourcing 34 unattributednamed sources Mood 36.3 sorrowjoyful

5 read zero: political diction, generational, gender, jingoistic, religious

Political diction 0 left-codedright-coded Generational 0 harder on the oldharder on the young Gender 0 no gendered framingframing throughout Jingoistic 0 reports to a readerwrites from a camp Religious 0 not invokedovert

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The West Australian Five banned Sydney Swans players could return to club as early as this week plain
The West Australian Banned Sydney Swans players set to return to club and possibly address teammates plain

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Also covered by The West Australian. We hold only their summary of it, not the report, so there is nothing of theirs to measure here.

Outlet	Niral Score
The West Australianas they published this story	4.7

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Five banned Sydney Swans expected to return to the club this week after preliminary final exit afl.com.au

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The West Australian Banned Sydney Swans players set to return to club and possibly address teammates Niral 4.6 political 0