Andrew Gaff deserves his ban, but the AFL has a bigger problem with off-field violence | Kate O'Halloran

Domestic and family violence get very different treatment to on-field incidents

“As an acclaimed football player … you had a responsibility as a role model to football followers of all ages.”

These were words uttered not to Andrew Gaff, as he was given an eight-week suspension for the punch on Andrew Brayshaw that left him with a fractured jaw, but to Shannon Grant – the former North Melbourne footballer who has admitted to assaulting his former partner on at least three separate occasions between June and December in 2017.

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