Knight's Fined for Staring

[Cynic]

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/knights-fined-for-ump-stare/story-e6frf9jf-1225891715155

What next? Making mean faces? Not shaking their hands? Not going to their grandchild's birthday parties?

Bloody ridiculous.

 

[frednirk]

LMAO!!!

god that is sad...

What a joke and a disgrace the Match review panel is.

This disgusting organisation must be abolished.

 

[Capt_Concussion]

It's official. Any player or coach is expected, by the AFL, to be a total robot. What a sad age we live in.

 

[Bennett.]

DON'T LOOK AT MEEEEEEEE

 

[JUBJUB]

He may as well of abused them and made the fine worth it

 

[Cynic]

DON'T LOOK AT MEEEEEEEE

As JUBJUB said Knights may as well have abused the umpires or wrestled with them. Wrestling is less than a $5,000 fine these days isn't it?

 

[mcuzzy]

he has to give the AFL $5,000 for staring at someone?

$5,000 ... wtf?

 

[Ron The Bear]

Can he be reported for staring at a player? FFS the world's gone mad.

 

[AsianWithAFro]

Revenue raising by the AFL lol

 

[DapperDon]

With this fine and Jackson getting in trouble for writing on facebook I might go support North Korean football, they are far less restricted in what they can say or do.

 

[Puddy]

that is ****ing pathetic, the AFL should be ashamed.

 

[mantis]

Next they'll fine clubs when their sypporters boo, or abuse the maggots.

 

[BACCS]

This is becoming a joke. If the AFL don't take a good hard look at themselves at the end of this season, I will personally egg Gieschan's, Anderson's and Vlad's houses.

 

[dread and might]

Just in case there was any doubt concerning the ability of the MRP to act reasonably....

 

[Xtreme]

Got off lightly, i presumed that he'd be banned from coaching for the next 5 weeks!

 

[Bennett.]

how would that punish us?

 

[Bennett.]

Knight covers Rooke

 

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[GUMBLETRON]

Hmm. If he's not allowed to stare we're going to see even more of his strange attempts at blinking.

 

[borgsta2006]

This sort of stupid fine makes umpires even more hated. We try to not put any attention on the umpires, then the media make a mountain out of a molehill. IMO Knights hasn't been demonstrative or abused any umpires, he simply looked at them with a look on his face that suggested he was upset with them.

Seriously, this has got to stop, umpiring is getting battered from pillar to post, the media jumps on every single error like it is the worst umpiring decision of all time.

 

[Jimpson]

Looks more like the Herald Sun put the whole staring thing in and Knights actually got fined for the comments he made about the umpiring, which he's not supposed to do and got fined for it.

Big media build up and you all fell for it.

 

[JUBJUB]

Looks more like the Herald Sun put the whole staring thing in and Knights actually got fined for the comments he made about the umpiring, which he's not supposed to do and got fined for it.

Big media build up and you all fell for it.

The Hun were right,he was given a $5000 suspended fine for giving the umps the evil eye.The club got a $5000 suspended fine for his comments on the umps.

ESSENDON coach Matthew Knights has been handed a suspended $5000 fine for his behaviour towards the umpires during the Bombers’ loss to Melbourne last Sunday.

Knights was captured on camera glaring and shaking his head at the field umpires while they were gathered in the middle of the ground for the three-quarter time break.

The club has also been handed a suspended $5000 fine for comments Knights made following the match, when he criticised the number of 50m penalties paid against his team

link

 

[Jimpson]

Well there you go, egg on my face.

Seemed so stupid though I just couldnt believe that he would get fined for it.

 

[Ron The Bear]

How long until we see umpire morality boxes installed in the coach's box, a la Demolition Man?

dismayed stare = 5000 credits
puzzled expression = 2000 credits
contrary thoughts = 500 credits

 

[JUBJUB]

How long until we see umpire morality boxes installed in the coach's box, a la Demolition Man?

dismayed stare = 5000 credits
puzzled expression = 2000 credits
contrary thoughts = 500 credits

Mick Malthouse will be screwed if that happened.Lucky he's getting out of the gig.