Interchange fiasco

[nomae]

Reading that Herald Sun article and the comments by the ferals reminded me of that North game last year - just out of curiosity, what were our collective thoughts on that? Did we get away with one?

Ps. Rule is a joke, free kick yes, 50m no, it is way too harsh of a punishment.

Pps. DROP JETTA

[BSA5]

Reading that Herald Sun article and the comments by the ferals reminded me of that North game last year - just out of curiosity, what were our collective thoughts on that? Did we get away with one?

A couple of important details about that match are lost when people talk about it. Firstly, the 19th man was White, and he didn't touch it. Jolly was the one who touched it. Jolly then left the field, being White's rather late replacement, but White was the 19th man, Jolly was the player who had the touch. White had no impact on the play at all, so those saying the 19th man impacted the play in those 30 seconds are completely wrong.

Secondly, the Swans were robbed because Kirk had a snap shot which went through, but was called touched on the line despite being a good half a metre over. It was the last score of the game. The Swans should have won that game.

[ugg]

The umpiring department are backing their man at the moment, and so they should. However, I have heard from one of the statsmen that the Swans in fact did have 5 on the interchange for about 20 seconds before the whole thing blew up.

[stellation]

In Bay Hatley we're right behind the interchange bench, the Swans are correct. I assume that it all came down to the steward seeing Dan's stuttered entry to the ground as Goodesy ran off the field and assuming Dan was going on for Goodesy (as nobody had just come off that second for Dan to be replacing).

[Jesse Richards]

The steward could have checked. But no, self-importantly pounced, as per instructions. FFS it's not rocket science. And not having those 6 points taken off the score is atrocious. Our percentage is so bad at present could it have an impact at the end of the season?

[stellation]

The steward could have checked. But no, self-importantly pounced, as per instructions. FFS it's not rocket science. And not having those 6 points taken off the score is atrocious. Our percentage is so bad at present could it have an impact at the end of the season?

People make mistakes, but not checking when it's a dead ball situation anyway and an entire bench is pointing and saying "look! we have enough!" is what really gets me about it. If they can't overturn it once it's been called then that's a problem for the AFL to fix quickly, but if they can and the steward didn't even double check then that's pretty awful.

[Primmy]

Stella they recalled a wrong decision out at ANZ last year against.....(not us).....and the game proceeded, so yes they can definitely cancel the call. Just a twit bignoting himself.

[johnno]

IF I was Longmire, and I knew at that moment in time that we had 5 on the bench(which I'm sure somebody MUST have radio-ed it to him!!!), I would have instructed a runner to deliver a message to either Goodes or McVeigh to run to the umpire and call for a count.

Surely this could have fixed things up?

[Chilcott]

Shocking decision by the steward and the Swans interchange bench.

It may have been only 20 seconds, but why would we have 17 men on the field at a very crtical time of the match.

[robamiee]

the AFL have just released that the decision was incorrect and rang the swans to apologise....(too f#@&$^ late)....
Critical time and critical decision. gave the blues more momentum...and they say momentum is everything

[GongSwan]

Yes, as distinct from being on the ground too soon!

I would have said, who notices him when he's on the ground? other than 2 or 3 touches a game

[ScottH]

THE INTERCHANGE steward who incorrectly paid a free kick against the Sydney Swans during their loss to Carlton at the SCG on Friday night is expected to be stood down for a week.

Steward error - AFL.com.au

And we get an apology. How sweet.

[ScottH]

It is a simple solution.
The Sub works with a coloured vest.

Why not have 3 batons, similar to an athletic relay?
Each of the I/C players has a baton and cannot take to the ground whilst they are holding one.
As each player comes off, a baton is exchanged.

In the Fridays instance, Hanners would've had no baton, and would've been free to enter the field.

[Big Al]

It is a simple solution.
The Sub works with a coloured vest.

Why not have 3 batons, similar to an athletic relay?
Each of the I/C players has a baton and cannot take to the ground whilst they are holding one.
As each player comes off, a baton is exchanged.

In the Fridays instance, Hanners would've had no baton, and would've been free to enter the field.

Do we get penalised if say Jesse gets Interchanged and drops the baton or when Bevan comes off and hands the baton to the opposition.

[aardvark]

Do we get penalised if say Jesse gets Interchanged and drops the baton or when Bevan comes off and hands the baton to the opposition.

Don't we already get penalised any time either of them enter the ground ?