1993, April 28,West Australian Newspaper, heading “Abusive Neesham relieved it’s over.”. Photo of Gerard Neesham leaving the WA Football Commission tribunal. Claremont coach was last night found guilty of 2 counts of misconduct for abusing the field umpires after Sunday’s game against East Fremantle.
Neesham who has coached the Tigers to three premierships in 7 years was given a two week suspended sentence. East Fremantle coach Ken Judge was unable to attend on one count of abusing umpires but was unable to attend due to other coaching commitments in the Country. The abuse as the umpires and players left through the same race and East Fremantle had been given 2 50 meter penalties in the time on period to win by 4 points. I did say they were a disgrace and incompetent but I don’t believe that saying they were incompetent or inept is abuse.
