Tom Morris

There's a lot going on.

There's a lot of noise.

There's a lot of decisions.

There's a lot of emotion and energy.

And I think if that can be humanized and there can be dialogue between players and umpires, that's a really good thing.

And certainly our view is, you know, put the tribunal decision to one side, shouldn't have got there.

It should have been dealt with in the aftermath of the game, whether that's straight after or in the next day, it just should have been navigated.

The interested parties should have come together.

So given that Nick Foote is not allowed to speak to Zach Butters after he reports him, how can it be navigated in the 24 hours after the game?

Oh, well that, I mean...

Whether he can't speak to him on game day, there's ways and means to get around those things.

They could have been brought together.

I understand there was efforts to probably try and do that.

I think that should have just been made to happen.

So both sides were diametrically opposed and they didn't want to move.

And they both still believe what they believe their truth to be.

And that's very hard to come together at that point.

It appears to me that the AFL Players Association's main concerns are procedural, though, more broad.

Can you tell us about them?

I think with this one, when I first started in the role, almost about six months ago now, and it was really evident to me early that one of the major frustrations of our current playing group is