robranisgod wrote:whybother wrote:Pity there wasn't a 19th man lurking around
Like there was for Norwood in the 1982 Second Semi Final.
In the 1982 Second Semi Final between Norwood and Port, Norwood had 19 players on the field for about the first minute of the last quarter. It was discovered when the Norwood officials realised that they only had one player on the interchange bench - there were only two interchange players back in those days of course - and no players down in the rooms. So they immediately dragged Andrew Aish off the field to rectify the problem.
All good, except that Aish didn't exit the oval through the interchange gate, and so the Port interchange official went and spoke to Stan Wickham (SANFL interchange steward) and advised him that Aish couldn't go back onto the ground.
Norwood went on to win the game, and it wasn't until sometime after the final siren that Port realised about the 19 players on the ground. When they were made aware of it they elected not to pursue the matter as they believed they'd lost fair and square.
Info supplied by Brian from the Roost Nth Adel history forum.