{"id":69339,"date":"2021-05-10T08:29:57","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T08:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=69339"},"modified":"2021-05-10T09:00:21","modified_gmt":"2021-05-10T09:00:21","slug":"tigers-duo-injured-in-nightclub-altercation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=69339","title":{"rendered":"Tigers duo injured in nightclub altercation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/richmond-tigers\" title=\"Richmond\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Richmond<\/a> will be without star midfielder <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/afl\/shai-bolton\" title=\"Shai Bolton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Shai Bolton<\/a> for up to three weeks after he fractured his wrist in an altercation at a nightclub over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Bolton and teammate <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/daniel-rioli\" title=\"Daniel Rioli\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Daniel Rioli<\/a> were both involved in the incident which occurred after Rioli&#x27;s girlfriend was subjected to inappropriate behaviour.<\/p>\n<p>According to a club statement, &quot;Rioli was punched after confronting the patron and suffered a cut under his eye that required two stitches&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>Despite their involvement in the altercation, both Bolton and Rioli are not expected to face disciplinary action from Richmond, according to Nine News&#x27; Alicia Muling. <\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"cd49c007-afec-476a-a354-5911a2cdfc61\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/cd49c007-afec-476a-a354-5911a2cdfc61\" alt=\"Daniel Rioli and Shai Bolton\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The loss of Bolton comes at an extremely inopportune time for Richmond, whose 4-4 start to the season is its worst record through eight games since the 2016 season. <\/p>\n<p>Bolton, who is out of contract at the end of the season and is yet to re-sign with Richmond, has been one of the Tigers&#x27; star performers so far in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old&#x27;s 21.8 disposals per game through the first eight games of the season is a career-best mark.<\/p>\n<p>He joins the likes of club captain Trent Cotchin, Shane Edwards, Dion Prestia, Kane Lambert and Ivan Soldo on the sidelines for the battling reigning AFL premiers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE TO COME<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Richmond will be without star midfielder Shai Bolton for up to three weeks after he fractured his wrist in an altercation at a nightclub over <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=69339\" title=\"Tigers duo injured in nightclub altercation\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69339"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69339"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69341,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69339\/revisions\/69341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}