Weekly Times | NICK Stevens was back on the football field yesterday just weeks after he unsuccessfully appealed to be allowed to play in the Sunraysia Football League.
The former AFL player returned to play in the Hume league in southern NSW for the Billabong Crows, where his brother Danny is a coach and where Stevens played six games last year.
Stevens was blocked from registering as a player with Red Cliffs, which he joined as coach at the end of last year, by the Sunraysia league board while he has an ongoing criminal appeal.
Stevens was found guilty in January last year of domestic abuse-related charges and sentenced to jail. He is appealing the convictions and sentence through the County Court.
Stevens appealed the Sunraysia league board’s decision to an AFL Victoria area appeals committee, but it was dismissed.
The Crows yesterday defeated Rand-Walbundrie-Walla by 19 points.