In the Hawkins incident the umpire said dont touch me. In May incident the umpire didn't say anything.
https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl...tentional-umpire-contact-20180504-p4zdig.html
The umpire immediately indicated to Hawkins to back off yelling: "Hey, don't touch me either" at the Cats' forward. The rules state that a player can be sent straight to the tribunal for making intentional contact with an umpire. However, careless contact attracts a fine. "Intentional contact with an umpire is a direct referral to the tribunal and no early plea is available to the player," the AFL said.
https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl...tentional-umpire-contact-20180504-p4zdig.html
But on the eve of the "AFL owned team" flying to Shanghai its not hard to get a little cynical that its an AFL backed decision to let May off. On balance I reckon its the right decision as it was careless not intentional, just hard to accept that Moore got 3 games in the SANFL for showing the ump what he did and the ump like in the May incident didnt say anthing or take offence.