AFLNT wishes to advise an independent Re-registration Panel (made up of three members) met on Monday 30 September 2019 to hear an application from Keegan Dingo, of Southern Districts Football Club, seeking to be re-registered.
The Panel granted Dingo’s application and he is now eligible to re-register as a player or official with the Southern Districts Football Club in the Northern Territory Football League.
Once his re-registration is submitted and approved then Dingo is eligible to transfer clubs as per normal player movement guidelines.
The Re-Registration panel chair said;
“The re-registration panel met last night and considered Keegan Dingo’s application. They were presented with evidence of Keegan’s activities during the deregistration period and were satisfied that he was suitable to be re-registered, making him eligible for selection for this week’s Round 1 game.”
Some of the information discussed showed Dingo as an active participant of the community through other sports as both a player and a coach. The panel felt comfortable that Dingo met the criteria for re-registration under the national guidelines, which speak to; being genuinely rehabilitated, unlikely to reoffend and that he does not pose an unacceptable risk to other players or officials.
Dingo understands that under the National Player and Official Deregistration Policy (October 2018) rule it states;
3.3 (g) iv) if a Player or Official is re-registered in accordance with this section 3.3, and subsequently receives a Suspension as a result of a Reportable Offence, that Player or Official will be permanently deregistered and forever prohibited from participating in any Competition as a Player or Official with no further right of appeal or right to apply for re-registration; and
3.3. (g) v) If a Player/Official is de-registered in accordance with this Policy then the Player/Official is de-registered from all AFL-or Football Body-sanctioned Competitions.
Original sanction – February 2018
Keegan Dingo of Southern Districts Football Club was found guilty of rough conduct during the second quarter of the Round 16 TIO NTFL Men’s Premier League game between the Tiwi Bombers Football Club and Southern Districts played at Tiwi Oval on Saturday 3 February 2018.
On Wednesday 7 February 2018, an independent Tribunal found Dingo guilty of rough conduct and upheld the incident as careless conduct, low impact and high contact.
On Tuesday 20 February 2018 an independent Appeal Board upheld the original Tribunal’s decision and sanction. The prescribed penalty placed Dingo beyond the 15-game suspension threshold allowed under national AFL policy and so he was subsequently deregistered.
