Michael Christian

the parties to get together for mediation.

So the fairest way at the time was determined that it should be a tribunal hearing to let both parties put their cases forward and then the tribunal make a decision based on that.

Look, the tribunal ruled that the circumstances were outside John Noble's control because I think the Essendon player was Edwards, that he had slipped just before contact was made and that the tribunal viewed that as circumstances outside John Noble's control.

Look, I had a view that there was an election to bump and high contact was made, but obviously respect what the tribunal, what decision they came to, and can certainly understand how they arrived at that decision.

Thanks very much, Jared.