Banished Eagle's exile ends after police charge

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West Coast guardant Isiah Winder has returned to grooming contempt the nine confirming police had charged the midfielder implicit a December incidental successful Geelong.

The Eagles confirmed Winder had been charged with battle stemming from an incidental astatine a campy for the AFL's Indigenous and multicultural players.

The connection noted Winder has "worked hard to regain the spot and assurance of the players and staff" anterior to his return.

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Winder's instrumentality comes aft Eagles manager Adam Simpson admitted that the young weapon had "made a mistake".

"But helium conscionable needs to enactment connected immoderate things to get to wherever helium needs to beryllium to beryllium portion of our list," Simpson told SEN vigor successful December.

"So, we'll reassess things backmost successful aboriginal January erstwhile helium comes backmost and conscionable spot however he's responded, and (he'll) enactment done immoderate things helium needs to enactment connected on his own, and ... immoderate of the things we request to assistance him with, too, due to the fact that he's a 20-year-old rookie-list player. So, uncovering the equilibrium betwixt the 2 is important for us."

Winder, a Peel Thunder product, landed astatine the Eagles via prime 57 successful the 2020 AFL nationalist draft.

He has played 7 AFL games successful his archetypal 2 seasons arsenic an Eagle, including six successful 2022.

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