THE AFL has disputed claims by North Melbourne president James Brayshaw that the club has been left in the dark on the league’s decision to fine the Sydney Swans for their interchange blunder during Sunday’s drawn match.

AFL football operations manager Adrian Anderson said he was willing to further explain to North the reasons behind the $50,000 fine. Brayshaw called for his club to be awarded all four premiership points after the Swans' 19 players on the field in the closing stages of the match.

“We have written to the club and explained the key basis of why we decided to go down the track of a financial sanction, so it’s not right to say we haven’t provided any reasons and I’m certain happy to elaborate on those with the club,” Anderson told Melbourne sports radio station SEN on Wednesday.

“The Kangaroos put in a submission on this issue as did the Swans … [but] there was no submission to the effect that ‘We think you should reverse the [outcome of the] match’.

“But they did raise a number of matters for our consideration and put forward a very good submission.”

Anderson said the result of the match had not been affected by the incident.

“There was about a minute and a half left on the clock so it’s impossible to say; a whole range of things can happen in an extra minute and a half of football,” he said.

“The player who came onto the ground, first-gamer Jesse White, was on for 35 seconds, he didn’t go anywhere near the ball; he was in fact well away from where the play was taking place.

“Both the Kangaroos and Swans acknowledge that the mistake was inadvertent and they tried to get a player off as soon as they could afterwards. They did try to call back Jesse White and they tried to get off another player … Darren Jolly was the first option.”

Anderson said the league viewed the incident very seriously and put all clubs on notice that similar episodes in the future could result in both financial and points penalties.

He said the situation had highlighted an area that could possibly be reviewed by the league.

“The mechanism that has always been the case for AFL football when a club has too many players on the ground is that the [opposition] captain can call a count,” he said.

“Dean Laidley, you would have seen his comments earlier in the week, did notice that there was extra and didn’t elect to take the issue any further at the time as well.

“Whether that’s appropriate procedure in AFL football in this day and age, well that’s something that I think is right for us to have a look at for the future.”