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Greater Western Sydney star Lachie Whitfield will miss just seven games of the 2017 season after accepting an AFL ban.The fallout was more far-reaching for former Giants staffers - football boss Graeme Allan and welfare manager Craig Lambert - who were banned on Tuesday for 12 months.Allan, who was installed as general manager of football at Collingwood in August, quit his post in response to the suspension.Lambert has since moved on to a similar post with Brisbane and will miss the entire 2017 season.The trio was investigated after Whitfield spent three days at Lamberts house, with the knowledge of Allan, in May last year in an alleged bid to avoid a possible drug test, which is a violation of the anti-doping code.However, in a move ticked off by ASADA, the AFL instead handed bans down for a breach of its own rule 2.3 - conduct unbecoming or prejudicial to the interests of the AFL.The trio had maintained throughout that Whitfield was simply seeking help as he went through a messy relationship break-up.The AFL, however, took a dim view of the situation.I think people are always disappointed in individuals who make mistakes and this is a poor reflection on them, clearly, AFL chief executive Gillon McLachlan said of the conduct of Allan and Lambert.I would say (its) a mistake thats hard to believe.Whitfield will be barred from using GWS facilities for four months before returning to train for the final two months of his ban while not being allowed to play.He will be eligible to return against Collingwood in Round 8, but McLachlan defended the severity of the penalty.Hes a 19-year-old kid who took advice from his supervisors, the people who were looking after him, so theres a different allocation of responsibility, he said.Theres not one piece of evidence or any allegation of anything to do with performance-enhancing drugs.Much harsher bans could have been brought into play if ASADA had pursued the trio for a breach of the anti-doping code.An apologetic Whitfield was glad to put the situation behind him.After a long and stressful 18 months, the AFL and I have reached what we believe to be a fair resolution, Whitfield said in a statement.I was going through a difficult period in my life and was not thinking clearly at the time. I know I should have behaved differently.I sincerely apologise to my teammates, coaches and our supporters. I love playing for the GWS Giants and am determined to repay the faith and loyalty they have shown in me.The league is yet to decide whether GWS will be penalised with a loss of draft picks, with AFL general counsel Andrew Dillon to consider that possibility in the coming days.The AFL draft will be held in Sydney on Friday, November 25.NHL Jerseys China . Galatasaray said in a statement on its website Monday that Mancini signed a three-year contract and will be paid 3.5 million euros for the upcoming season, with his salary upped to 4. Adidas NHL Jerseys 2020 . Miller finished in two minutes, 6.09 seconds, one day before the first medal race on the Alpine schedule. The 36-year-old American also turned in the top time in Thursdays opening training session. https://www.nhljerseys2020.com/ . 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Cory Sarich also scored for Colorado (3-0-0), which is off to its best ever start.Greg Inglis candidly admits he will go into Saturdays rugby league Test underprepared and expects to be targeted by the Kiwis.Inglis arrived in Perth on Thursday, four days later than his teammates after staying in Sydney for the birth of his daughter Quinn Sybella.The Australian centre will only have Fridays captains run as training before the nib Stadium encounter in what will be his 36th Test appearance.Crucially, it will be his only training session inside likely left winger Valentine Holmes, who will make his Test debut.Kangaroos coach Mal Meninga will name his team on Friday morning, with Holmes set to get the nod after Semi Radradras non-selection for the 24-man Four Nations squad due to off-field dramas.Josh Mansour is not with the team because he is getting married on Saturday.I am going in under prepared but Ive played enough footy with these guys and enough footy with Mal so I know what he expects, Inglis said on Thurrsday.ddddddddddddTheres no doubt if I was playing a rookie (combination), Id be targeting them.You never know until after 20 minutes how its going to act.Inglis said he had gone before into representative games, including State of Origin I last year, with familiar teammates such as Johnathan Thurston playing inside him on the left side.Well have a bit of a chat with the boys; JT and my winger will chat about how we all like to defend, Inglis saidIve played a number of games over the years with JT and were pretty comfortable.Theres been a few camps where I went in underprepared. It was Origin last year when I was in hospital for five days and I got down to Sydney.I did one training session in that camp and went off to hospital, did the captains run and then played Origin so its happened a few times. ' ' '