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I think the AFL should just concede defeat and get rid of it all together. Don't think the system was bought in to detect a pinky finger touching the ball off the boot. It was only introduced to eliminate the howlers. So many other decisions made in the game are wrong and are never reviewed. Dont want to become like the NBA where every call is reviewed and the game is held up. If channel 7 didn't show vision of a little finger moving no one would know or care. Umpires are paid to make decisions, some are going to be wrong and some are going to be right. One decision is never going to change the outcome of a game when so many other factors can change results during the game.

beef wrote:I think the AFL should just concede defeat and get rid of it all together. Don't think the system was bought in to detect a pinky finger touching the ball off the boot. It was only introduced to eliminate the howlers. So many other decisions made in the game are wrong and are never reviewed. Dont want to become like the NBA where every call is reviewed and the game is held up. If channel 7 didn't show vision of a little finger moving no one would know or care. Umpires are paid to make decisions, some are going to be wrong and some are going to be right. One decision is never going to change the outcome of a game when so many other factors can change results during the game.

I agree somewhat, I think they should just go by the goal line camera's though, it's up to the field umpire to determine if it was touched off the boot, how many makes get paid per game when other fingers have touched the ball slightly beforehand? What if one of these marks was in the goal square?

I didn't see the footage, I had the TV on but wan't listening to it but it seems very intricate, we've gotta still have room for human error in our game.

Your first 7 words is the reason it won’t happen. The AFL don’t admit they are wrong

Just wind the system back to goal-line technology only (provided they can get that right and consistent at every ground, otherwise scrap that too). What makes that difficult is the footage the broadcasters will find of touched off the boot scenario's, but bugger it, the game was fine that way before.

Use better cameras

They will.

Just like everything else, it'll be too difficult to work it through properly so they'll determine that any ball that goes through the goals is a goal.

You watch, it'll happen in no time flat.

Commentators made a point last night about a Geelong defender pushing the ball into his own goal post (ie should have been a behind for the Crows) going uncalled and Unreviewed

Two goal umpires at each end.
Barassi was pushing for it in the mid-90s and I thought then it would look over-officiating like other sports, but he is right. All those hitting the goalpost ones like last night wouldn't be an issue, nor players getting in the umpires way because there would by the view from the other side now.

FlyingHigh wrote:Two goal umpires at each end.
Barassi was pushing for it in the mid-90s and I thought then it would look over-officiating like other sports, but he is right. All those hitting the goalpost ones like last night wouldn't be an issue, nor players getting in the umpires way because there would by the view from the other side now.

Would 2 umpires have picked up that one last night?
Rodan was only inches away and adamant it missed as he didn’t even ask for a review. At normal speed to the naked eye it looked to have missed the post and even on slow motion it barely grazed the post.

Gilligan and Steve Hocking think Friday nights decision was correct..........muppetts

Armchair expert wrote:Gilligan and Steve Hocking think Friday nights decision was correct..........muppetts

Thursday night

It's only the constant stuffed up score reviews, inconsistent tribunal results, pathetic MRO outcomes and the titillation when a player may have done something wrong that makes the AFL interesting.

Also the expert comment and analysis on here.

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Jim05 wrote:

FlyingHigh wrote:Two goal umpires at each end.
Barassi was pushing for it in the mid-90s and I thought then it would look over-officiating like other sports, but he is right. All those hitting the goalpost ones like last night wouldn't be an issue, nor players getting in the umpires way because there would by the view from the other side now.

Would 2 umpires have picked up that one last night?
Rodan was only inches away and adamant it missed as he didn’t even ask for a review. At normal speed to the naked eye it looked to have missed the post and even on slow motion it barely grazed the post.

Possibly if a second umpire was standing on a different angle.
There was a goal review the Crows kicked in the first quarter that definitely would have been able to be judged by a second umpire