Luke Hodge

Love it over there in South Australia.

And then we get to the end of it and from the final game we come out and all we can talk about is the Nick Foot and Butters conversation or miscommunication between the two.

Look, I think footy's there to be spoken about.

I guess the big building to last year's Gather Round was the Kenny and the plane with Ginnivan, which was the massive talk.

Still can't believe you got fined for that, by the way.

I fell off my seat when I heard that and then they go and promote it the next year.

But yeah, this is a confusing one because you sit back and Nick Foote's umpired me for a long period of time.

And for me, I just think it's miscommunication.

What he heard and what Bud has said, both believe, they've both been honest.

And we sort of sit back and go, well, I don't think Nick's lying because if you have an umpire feel that a player's abused him for cheating, he has to take this ground.

And on the flip side, butters are sitting on, I did not say that.

This is, I can understand where you're coming from, but I did not say that.

So hopefully we'll get to the tribunal.

I don't want Nick Foote's reputation to be dragged through the Coliseum because when I umpired, he was one who you would communicate with.

You'd have a banter.

If you did get a bit heated and abuse him, he could tell you to pull up and then continue on.

So look, I feel that the tribunal, as much as we don't want to see this going to the tribunal, hopefully we get there and we understand that what Nick heard

wasn't what he thought, and Zach can go and play next week.

So it is a hard one, but I think if any umpire...

hear someone accusing them of cheating or getting bribed the afl is telling them to take it they have to report them so he's doing what he's told to do but i think we're all sitting here going what he heard was a little bit different to what zach's what zach said by the reaction of what zach had on on the ground as well how difficult is it out there in the middle when it comes to communicating with umpires and teammates how likely is it that there was a miscommunication and just the wires being crossed