Breaking News - 19 players on Ground yesterday

[annew]

That's crap.
A mistake made by a coach is less worrysome than a mistake made by an umpire.
If there is no recourse for the AFL due to outdated rules, then so be it.
They should change the rules - there has certainly been recent occasions that should have brought this issue to head.

As for Jolly, the Swans are saying that he was taken of as he was the closest player when they realised.
Maybe he wasn't the player who was supposed to come off.
I think we should all be looking at what White 'did' rather than what Jolly 'did'
White was the extra man who wandered on when there were already 18 players on the field.
And he didn't impact on the game.
Footy Classified beat up.

Just on that I must admit I did make the comment on Sunday why was White on for the ruck contests at the end of the game when it would make sense that Jolly should have been as the experienced ruck man.

[goswannie14]

No. The way I understand the interchange system works the player wanting to come on lodges his intent with the interchange official and who he is replacing. The official notes the names and times in his record. So officially Jolly was to come off, so when White goes on Jolly should not be out there. White seemed to go on early but Jolly is the 19th man officially, and I understand that this what the record says.

So why did the interchange official allow White to go on? That's his/her job isn't it?

[NMWBloods]

So why did the interchange official allow White to go on? That's his/her job isn't it?

No.

[reigning premier]

$15K ... is that all??
Quick whip around on Sunday should pay that fine.

Better still, Where's Kanga our resident bushrats fan???

His team could easily afford to lend us the $15k.... They're knocking back money left, right and centre... Must have plenty of it!!

[swansrule100]

its stupid on the clubs part to have allowed this to happen.

[Wardy]

You reckon Roos sent his wife to the media???
More like they asked her, and she gave an opinion.

Does that mean Tammy gets dropped to reserves Nick Davis Style - she is after all the scapegoat for answering a media question!

[top40]

I'm pretty sure we can't lose our 2 points though. So I'm not really fussed.

There is at least one Rugby League (Sydney Competition) precedence. Back in 1975 in Round 15, Western Suburbs had a 7 all draw with Canterbury. One interchange Wests player was found to be wrongly on the field, leaving 14 men against 13. The result was that Wests was stripped of its' one point for the draw, This had a later impact on the finals, where Wests were forced to play a playoff for a finals spot, lost the playoff, and consequently missed out of playing finals football.

[ScottH]

Just on the final moments of that game, how could Kirk not make the distance from 20 metres out?

Barlow was the same, a little earlier in the last qtr, from about 35m. Too many players (particularly ours) kick around the corner rather than straight through the ball.

Moore at least made the distance, but missed. Barlow's was marked about 3 metres in.

That was where we needed tricky dicky.

[swansrule100]

half the 18 on the ground were useless anyway one more cant hurt

[NMWBloods]

That was where we needed tricky dicky.

RWO heresy!

It's like the Nicene creed - Roos is the one true messiah, criticism not allowed, (nor his apostles Goodes, MOL or JBolt), but Davis is Arian!

[connolly]

As long as two of the players were LRT and Bevo we'll be right.

It all evens out in the long run. We only had 17 men on the field when Davo was loitering about

[connolly]

Just on the final moments of that game, how could Kirk not make the distance from 20 metres out?

Pressure on the kicker and fatigue? You may have noticed that Campbell also failed to make the distance from about 25 metres in the last quarter. Both teams had played themselves to a virtual stanstill.