robranisgod wrote:Spargo wrote:As for the goal umpire at the Robran end in the last qtr...
17 minute mark Tropiano has a set shot which is clearly marked by the Glenelg defender a good metre in play yet somehow it’s given a goal.
Farcical.
I was standing in front of the grandstand but I couldn't tell for sure but after the match I was talking to a member of the grog squad who agreed entirely with you that it was marked a metre in play. I wasn't alluding to that decision when I said it would have been grand larceny if North had got up, but it certainly would have added to the case. Glenelg used the ball better, spread from defence better and deserved the win, no doubt.
Regarding the Tropiano goal, was the Glenelg bloke moving backwards in the mark at speed?
The only reason I ask is that I remember a goal that was paid to Centrals at the Bay a number a number of years ago, but there was a fair bit of conjecture as to whether the ball had crossed the line prior to the kick. From side on at speed it was really hard to tell, and some of the 'Louts were convinced, not unreasonably, looking from side on that the ball had crossed before being kicked. It turned out that it hadn't, and that the Goal Umpire's call was correct in that case.
Without having seen it, I was just wondering whether this was something similar.