Vision obtained by The Agenda Setters has uncovered a bizarre oversight by AFL interchange stewards during Hawthorn’s win over Melbourne on Saturday.

Unactivated Hawks sub Luke Breust was somehow able to run onto the field while play was still live just before half-time.

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Melbourne forward Harrison Petty was awarded a free kick moments before the half-time siren, after which a small fracas broke out where the free kick was paid.

Despite Petty having still yet to take his kick, Breust ran onto the field in his tracksuit with a ball in hand to start warming up, thinking he was in the clear to do so.

Only realising when he got half way across the MCG that he had jumped the gun, the veteran forward ran all the way back to the interchange bench while Petty took his kick.

No one batted an eyelid.

“There’s a little bit of a fracas here at half time, not sure what’s going on,” Dale Thomas told The Agenda Setters as the extraordinary vision was shown.

“Harrison Petty had already had a free kick before the siren had gone.

“You just see down the bottom there — Luke Breust just warming up in one of his last games (before retiring at the end of the year).

“So there’s a free kick, so the players sort of disperse, Harrison Petty gets the prune (ball), go back, have your shot.

“There’s a player running off... hang on? Luke Breust, as he is coming in — where is the steward sitting there in the interchange whistling, phoning through, whatever you have to do in this day and age to the umpires, saying that should be 50 metres? That is a clear infringement.”

Petty was close enough to have a Hail Mary shot at goal, but not close enough to realistically score.

If he was awarded the 50-metre penalty he should have received though, it would have been an almost certain goal.

The Hawks were up by 34 points at the time. A goal would have drawn the Demons back to within 28 and kept the game alive.

Hawthorn went on to win by 36, but the AFL can count itself only so lucky that the game wasn’t closer or have bigger finals implications for both sides.

It was one of several blunders over the weekend from officiators, who missed multiple clear throws from Adelaide players during the Crows’ win over Collingwood.

Replays showed obvious throws from Ben Keays and Mark Keane go unpenalised in the three-point thriller, with Keays’ effort even turning into a direct goal assist.

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