Knights Reported

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According to the main board he was cleared

 

[Vader]

http://www.afl.com.au/News/NEWSARTICLE/tabid/208/Default.aspx?newsId=66262

The match day report against Adelaide's Chris Knights for engaging in rough conduct against St Kilda's Shane Birss was assessed. It was the view of the panel the contact was caused by circumstances outside the control of Knights which he could not have reasonably foreseen, in that player Knights was pushed from behind. No further action was taken.

 

[thebirdman 24]

Good, because if he wasn't i would give up on AFL right now.

 

[jenny61_99]

Sanity (finally) prevails!

 

[Sekaj]

... that player Knights was pushed from behind. No further action was taken.

Will there be any action taken against the umpire for not paying a free kick to Knights?

 

[Elder van Berlo]

Will there be any action taken against the umpire for not paying a free kick to Knights?

My thoughts exactly!

 

[macca23]

http://www.afl.com.au/News/NEWSARTICLE/tabid/208/Default.aspx?newsId=66262
Quote:
The match day report against Adelaide's Chris Knights for engaging in rough conduct against St Kilda's Shane Birss was assessed. It was the view of the panel the contact was caused by circumstances outside the control of Knights which he could not have reasonably foreseen, in that player Knights was pushed from behind. No further action was taken.

I'm still unhappy about this.

Action should be taken against McBernie for persisting with the report.

That report should never have made it to the panel.

Any umpire worth his salt would have withdrawn the report after having a look at it after the game. Nobody can tell me that it wouldn't have been brought to McBernie's attention that he got it wrong.

All that does is confirm my opinion at the time that McBernie nearly shat himself with joy at the opportunity to report a Crows player.

He should be punished for not withdrawing that report when the rest of Australia could see that the report itself was farcical.

 

[jo172]

All that does is confirm my opinion at the time that McBernie nearly shat himself with joy at the opportunity to report a Crows player.

He should be punished for not withdrawing that report when the rest of Australia could see that the report itself was farcical.

Oh come on

If the AFL was seriously trying to crack down on systematic bias against teams west of Geelong from all levels (not just umpiring) we wouldn't have any administrators or umpires left anymore

 

[footy4ever]

Where's our f%$@**& free kick for push in the back??

That toss owes us!

 

[beartoo]

I watched that closely both at the time and on the replay. I reckon that dipstick got pissed off because Knights more or less ignored him immediately after the incident when he tried to say something to him. My feeling is that he decided to report him because he was pissed off that Knights didn't recognise his super-importance. He would have had to be blind not to see the push and he was in good position.

 

[dplggr47]

I watched that closely both at the time and on the replay. I reckon that dipstick got pissed off because Knights more or less ignored him immediately after the incident when he tried to say something to him. My feeling is that he decided to report him because he was pissed off that Knights didn't recognise his super-importance. He would have had to be blind not to see the push and he was in good position.

i agree;...Knights was annoyed at the ump for the decision...and basically ignored his rambling...who would want an annoying ump following you around to tell you why they are giving the free kick against you...the ump was annoyed and reported him.
and you do have to tell a player when they are being reported...so Chris just took it, so the ump would go away. i wonder whether the ump would've paid a 50m penalty if Chris continued to walk away while he was talking to him...

 

[Bacon8]

I saw the BUMP on Knights as fair. The Saint didn't use his hands, it was a bump.

And sanity won in the end.