Richmond’s Noah Balta is in line to make his season debut after serving a club-imposed four-match suspension — but the ‘sickened’ father of a coward-punch victim says the defender should never play for the club again.
Balta in March pleaded guilty to a single count of assault occasioning actual bodily harm — which attracts a maximum penalty of five years in jail under New South Wales law — after leaving another man in hospital with a head injury following an incident in the early hours of December 30 in regional NSW.
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