Jarrad Waite, one of the three Carlton players involved in the
Twitter incident.  Jarrad Waite, one of the three Carlton
players involved in the Twitter incident. Photo: Sebastian
Costanzo  THE three Carlton players involved in public criticism
of umpires have been stung $2500 by the AFL, but the decision
that sparked most of their ire was deemed to be wrong.  Injured
trio Marc Murphy, Jeremy Laidler and Jarrad Waite were fined
after an AFL investigation ended yesterday, all for taking to
Twitter during the Carlton-West Coast match at Subiaco last
weekend. Coach Brett Ratten was given a formal warning for his
comment in a press conference about latent bias against teams
visiting Subiaco.  ''What can you say? We come here knowing that
is the lay of the land,'' Ratten had said in response to a
journalist's question.  But the AFL umpiring department's review
of the most controversial decision, a holding-the-ball
adjudication against Aaron Joseph that handed West Coast a goal,
found that the umpire concerned had