In Round 6, 2008, and played a controversial drawn match, in which a bungled interchange late in the game left Sydney with 19 men on the field for about a minute, during which time the Swans scored the game-tying behind. Although the AFL's laws allowed for each of the Sydney players to be fined $2500 for the error, there could be no change to the match result because North Melbourne had not called for a head count. This highlighted the impracticality of the head count rule in a modern professional league with its rapid use of interchanges for fatigue management.