Luke Hodge

Well, you think about it.

You know when you're doing the media, when you've got someone in your ear, you're trying to talk, you're listening to what your commentator's saying, you've got your producer in the background talking.

Sometimes I'll get BT asking me a question and I don't hear what he said because my mind's on the next phase or talking to someone else.

And you think Nick in his position, he's got other umpires in his head.

He's got someone else.

He's got all the players.

He's got the crowd.

He's just paid a free kick where probably a few players were disagreeing with the free kick.

It possibly would have been a bit tiggy touchwood considering some of the other free kicks are let go.

I can totally understand that what was said may have gone to him a different way, but his reaction was still what the AFL are telling him to do if he heard what he thought he heard.

So, yeah, hopefully it all gets cleared out tonight.

It is disappointing for the audio because the audio could have come back and we could have snaffled it straight away, but I've heard the audio 25 times and I still can't make out what it said.

The pay or paid, it sounds somewhat similar to that, but it's not long enough for us to get a decent understanding from it.

Yeah, I think that's where a lot of people always, a lot of players plead their innocence, especially when it gets to the tribunal.

I know I've done that a few times.

But I think you've got to look at it.

And Zach is someone who, I remember when Zach came in, I was towards the end and he was a lippy bugger.

He was a smart aleck.

But you just liked him because he said,

him he's someone who'll back himself will push himself he'll he'll get stuck into the opposition as we said he's got 50 grand worth of fines but at the when push comes to shove he's someone that i would trust and by the look of his reaction you sit there and go he was shocked even when they paid the 50 you turn around and ollie wines is from all reports is one of the more honest people you're seeing football he was also a little bit shocked so um