BRISBANE Lions champion Darryl White has been banned from playing football for life by a Darwin tribunal.
White was deregistered under the ruling that places a life ban on players suspended for more than 15 games.
The NT News reports White's one-match ban for striking Tiwi Bomber Donald Mungatopi took his lifetime suspensions to 16 games - one above the maximum allowed under the new AFLNT deregistration policy.
The Australia-wide ban effectively ends a playing career that began in the under-13s with Pioneers in the CAFL 30 years ago.
An AFLNT Hall of Famer and a member of the AFL Indigenous Team of the Century, 38-year-old White played 268 games with Brisbane, including the 2001, 2002 and 2003 premierships.
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/darryl-white-banned-for-life-in-nt-league/story-e6frf9jf-1226228435249Just way over the top. Sheesh Brereton and plenty of others wouldn't have lasted 5 minutes in the game if they had this rule in the VFL back in the 80s.