James Gallagher

I think anytime a person gives evidence and it's not accepted, that sort of cuts quite deeply.

You know, I know Zach well enough.

I know Ollie well.

You know, these are guys that are, you know, really highly revered, true to their word.

I don't think anyone's ever doubted that and for the first time that's happened and

I don't think that's a good thing for all of us.

I don't think it's helped, but I actually don't think this is necessarily about players being umpires.

I don't know Nick Foote.

I have no reason to doubt that, you know, what he said he thought he heard is what he thought he heard.

He was focusing on umpiring the game.

Zach and Ollie were focusing on playing it.

It's entirely understandable that that might be misheard.

I think there's no doubt in my mind that that's what happened.

And...

those two things can be the case.

And the tribunal should have been able to say, you know what, we actually believe both of you.

But that doesn't get us to a point of understanding and being confident enough to uphold a charge.

I think ideally...

what we should say is good dialogue between players and umpires.

I think that ultimately helps the relationship.