Hawthorn premiership defender Campbell Brown has recalled when he gave evidence at the Tribunal after Chris Judd eye-gouged him in 2007.
Brown spoke about the unwritten rule of players helping each other out when giving evidence to to look after your fellow counterparts.
“I was always brought up with you look after your fellow players at the Tribunal,” Brown said on In The Game with Damian Barrett.
“I’d been to the Tribunal enough to know that I loved it when a player looked after me.
“I rang up on the video link and I gave pretty good evidence.
“Mike Sheahan called it a fib, he got me on the couch and asked if I told a fib to the Tribunal and I said, ‘of course I did’.”
Brown’s antics at the Tribunal ended up landing him in trouble with former AFL operations manager Adrian Anderson and looking at a lengthy ban.
“The next day Adrian Anderson rang the club and I was going to get a three-week suspension for bringing the game into disrepute," he said.
“My response to that was well Juddy eye-gouged me and got one and you’re going to offer me three times what he got just for lying. How does get stuffed sound?
“They wanted me to apologise which I refused to do because I’d done nothing wrong.
“I didn’t get the three weeks, I got a $15,000 fine, $7,500 of that was suspended, so it wasn’t too bad; I invoiced Juddy and I’m still waiting for him to reply."