{"id":12098,"date":"2018-04-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/powell-pepper-must-be-allowed-to-play-says-michelangelo-rucci\/"},"modified":"2018-04-18T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-18T00:00:00","slug":"powell-pepper-must-be-allowed-to-play-says-michelangelo-rucci","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/powell-pepper-must-be-allowed-to-play-says-michelangelo-rucci\/","title":{"rendered":"Powell-Pepper Must Be Allowed To Play, Says Michelangelo Rucci"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Port Adelaide\u2019s <strong>Sam Powell-Pepper<\/strong> must be allowed to play while an <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/Port-Adelaide-Still-Waiting-On-Report-Into-Sam-Powell-Pepper\">AFL investigation<\/a> into assault accusations continues, just as if it was a police investigation, says <strong>Michelangelo Rucci<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday Rucci told FIVEAA:<\/p>\n<blockquote><h3>\u201cI\u2019m a little concerned from some of the stories that we hear out of AFL house that the AFL wants to hit Sam Powell-Pepper with one [week] &#8212; \u2018Here it is, here\u2019s the deal, just take one, do the respect and responsibility [training].\u201d<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cWhy should anyone put up their hand if they\u2019re saying they\u2019re innocent? He\u2019s saying he\u2019s innocent.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cIf you are steadfastly believing you have not done wrong, you don\u2019t put up your hand, do you? Not even with a plea bargain.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cThere is a lot to work through when there are varying degrees on the stories.\u201d<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p lang=\"und\" dir=\"ltr\">NOW: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/michelangeloruc?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@michelangeloruc<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ppofgyj9dl\">pic.twitter.com\/ppofgyj9dl<\/a><\/p>&mdash; RoweyandBicks (@RoweyandBicks) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RoweyandBicks\/status\/986486071356608515?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 18, 2018<\/a><\/blockquote>&#13;\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Port Adelaide\u2019s Sam Powell-Pepper must be allowed to play while an AFL investigation into assault accusations continues, just as if it was a police investigation, says Michelangelo Rucci. On Wednesday Rucci told FIVEAA: \u201cI\u2019m a little concerned from some of the stories that we hear out of AFL house that the AFL wants to hit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1239,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[143],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-12098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Powell-Pepper Must Be Allowed To Play, Says Michelangelo Rucci - FIVEAA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/powell-pepper-must-be-allowed-to-play-says-michelangelo-rucci\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Powell-Pepper Must Be Allowed To Play, Says Michelangelo Rucci\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Port Adelaide\u2019s Sam Powell-Pepper must be allowed to play while an AFL investigation into assault accusations continues, just as if it was a police investigation, says Michelangelo Rucci. 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