Sport / Brisbane, QLD

Lachie Neale tribunal: Brisbane star still banned from grand final after marathon four hour hearing

The West Australian Craig O'Donoghue

22 Sept 2026 21:51 AEST Summary

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22 Sept 2026 23:16 AEST the headline was changed: Lachie Neale tribunal: Brisbane star ~~learns fate~~ still banned from grand final after marathon four hour hearing

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Summarized version

Lachie Neale has spent this afternoon trying to be cleared to play in the grand final after being offered a one game ban for striking.

The report’s most important sentence, shortened and in plain words. How

From the report

Lachie Neale has spent this afternoon attempting to be cleared to play in the grand final after being offered a one game ban for striking. Here’s what happened at the tribunal.

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Indicators

Niral Score 5 mundaneloaded

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

final2grand2tribunal2

Sourcing 28 unattributednamed sources Mood 51 sorrowjoyful

6 read zero: sentiment, political diction, generational, gender, jingoistic, religious

Sentiment 0 hostilefavourable 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 Lachie Neale tribunal: Brisbane star still banned from grand final after marathon four hour hearing plain
The Age Lachie Neale to miss grand final plain
WAtoday Lachie Neale out of grand final in ~~sensational~~ tribunal ruling 1 change

How this outlet filed it, and how we rewrote it

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Also covered by WAtoday, Brisbane Times, The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald. 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	5

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The same event elsewhere

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WAtoday Lachie Neale out of grand final in tribunal ruling Niral 17.8 political 0 Brisbane Times Lachie Neale out of grand final in tribunal ruling Niral 17.8 political 0 The Age Lachie Neale out of grand final in tribunal ruling Niral 17.8 political 0 The Sydney Morning Herald Lachie Neale out of grand final in tribunal ruling Niral 17.8 political 0 The Age Lachie Neale to miss grand final Niral 4.1 political 0 The Sydney Morning Herald Lachie Neale to miss grand final Niral 4.1 political 0 WAtoday Lachie Neale to miss grand final Niral 4.1 political 0 Brisbane Times Lachie Neale to miss grand final Niral 4.1 political 0