Re: Blues Brothers trip to the tribunal
Reply #265 –
The fines are right, they must protect umps at lower levels were any "threshold of contact" is not measurable or police-able!
Scott's comments are ignorant of the situations where you can have teenagers or girls umpiring men as part of a suburban or regional match day panel. No level of contact is acceptable, the AFL is the standard bearer!
I have no problem with the AFL fines or bans.
I have a huge problem with Scott, Dangerfield and the AFL media speaking out because their motives are self-indulgent and not pure! They made the issue all about them when in fact there is a much bigger picture!
I'd assert if some lowly Geelong player had come out and made those Dangfield comments the media would have keelhauled them!