Say what you want about the AFL, but time and time again they prove they are an organisation that well and truly has their priorities in ~order~.
NMFC has been fined $50k and Brad Scott $30k by the AFL. The club accepts the sanctions and will make no further comment on the matter.
— North Melbourne (@NMFCOfficial) June 21, 2016
Following North’s narrow loss to Hawthorn this past Friday night, a clearly fuming Scott made the incendiary comments to the press after receiving information from an on-field staffer.
“I know he is (unfairly treated), because the umpires told our players that. ‘Well, he’s a ducker, so we don’t pay high free kicks to Lindsay’.”
“They told our guys that, so that’s clearly a preconceived idea.”“You just want the umpires to umpire what they see, not their preconceived ideas.”“I’m just telling you what happened because they won’t tell you, that’s for sure.”
The club quickly moved into damage control mode after an investigation found no umpire had made any such claims on field during the game, and that the staffer had passed on second-hand information that was then misinterpreted.
