No Siren Debacle Expected At Aurora
The Sunday Age
Sunday June 18, 2006
THE AFL is confident there will not be a repeat of the round-five siren fiasco when league football returns to Launceston's Aurora Stadium today for the first time since the controversial St Kilda-Fremantle match earlier this season.
It took three days for the AFL Commission to decide the result of that match after the officiating umpires failed to hear the siren at the end and allowed play to continue, giving the Saints time to even the scores. The commission awarded the game to Fremantle.Yesterday, spokesman Patrick Keane said the AFL had full confidence in changes made in Launceston."We have done a lot of testing. There are new siren banks and the decibel levels have been increased. We are fully confident there will be no issues tomorrow (when Hawthorn plays Richmond)." -- KAREN LYON
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