cossi11 wrote:Not quite sure how it all works myself but I thought you would need to have both parties there to determine what actually happened (hear both sides of the story) and then apply/determine the sanction if necessary?
Main point being is that the tribunal applied a sanction on one of the hearings and threw the other one out (presumably because the victim didn't show up, at least this is what I was told).
Why should a victim have to take time out of his personal life to wait and attend a tribunal hearing that could take up to 4 hours to be heard.
The reporting umpire needs to attend along with the reported player, the player or the umpire can request a statement from the "victim" if he feels a need to.
Very rarely it's a victim vs offender case, that's generally if there has been a club induced investigation.
As you said in another post, time to move on and concentrate on making the 5, although you'd rather have Woody out there too, Garner is a fair replacement to have back in his original colours, done a full circle the lad, he must like blue as apart from Paskeville he has played for Smithfield, Eastern Park, South Gawler and now the Units, best of luck to him after a nasty injury last season.
Did he play for Gumeracha in between Central United and Smithfield?
