Former Thomson forward Brent Jacques is training with the club ahead of a planned appeal against his lifetime deregistration.
Sources have confirmed the veteran goalsneak, who last played in Thomson’s 2023 grand final loss to Inverleigh, will have his appeal heard by AFL Victoria in early May.
He cannot appeal until after Round 4 of the GDFNL season, which marks 12 months since his most recent suspension would have concluded.
Jacques went over AFL Victoria’s 16-match suspension threshold after copping a four-game ban for striking Hawk Mick Grozdanovski during the third quarter of the 63-point loss.
AFL Barwon’s Match Review Panel offered him a three-match suspension, which would have taken his total games suspended to 16 if he had accepted.
Jacques failed to have the ban reduced to two matches at the AFL Barwon Tribunal.
A football journeyman, he played with Heathcote, Inglewood, and Euroa in north central Victoria before joining the GFNL club North Shore, where he scored 54 goals in 41 games, in 2013.
Jacques then crossed to GDFNL club Bannockburn in 2016, playing 71 matches and kicking 147 goals, including playing in the Tigers’ 2019 premiership.
He had two outstanding years with Belmont Lions, finishing with 104 goals in 28 games before kicking 52 goals for Thomson in 2023.
Jacques has been contacted for comment.
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