 The Carlton officials refused to allow the three players to take their place, and all three players were stood down.Upon being told that he could not play, Jones lost his temper, resigned from Carlton as a player on the spot, and walked out in a huff, and immediately went over, on his own, without either Anderson or Bennett, to the Melbourne Cricket Ground and watched Richmond beat North Melbourne 14.17 (101) to 4.7 (31) with some of his (and Adrian Gallagher's) work-mates, who were standing in the Outer.This meant, of course, that not only was Jones very conspicuously absent from the sparsely populated Lake Oval (the crowd for the day was 13,420) — and, very obviously, not supporting his Carlton team-mates — he was, at the same time, very conspicuously present at the MCG, was not injured in any way, and was very obviously supporting Richmond.