The AFL has numerous explaining to do.
On Saturday evening the already controversial rating overview system discovered itself within the highlight after it didn’t come to the celebration within the dying levels of the Adelaide Crows thriller towards the Sydney Swans.
Crows midfielder Ben Keays seemed to have sealed a surprising 44-point deficit when he snapped a shot from the pocket with simply over a minute on the clock.
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As Keays celebrated what he believed was a purpose, the purpose umpire signalled the ball had hit the publish.
The Swans went the size of the sphere, holding onto their slender lead as the ultimate siren rang out. The outcome crushes the Crows hopes of creating the finals in 2023.
Replays confirmed the ball hadn’t come into contact with the publish and had sailed by the targets.
It left footy followers seeing purple and calling out the AFL and the ARC for failing to overview a name that might have handed the Crows the lead late within the contest.
Channel 7’s Mitch Cleary known as it an “absolute debacle”.
He mentioned: “The fact the process has broken down. How has it not gone to a score review with a minute on the clock? That is a debacle.”
Sports reporter Damien Ractliffe tweeted: “No spike Arc technology at Adelaide Oval. This is ridiculous. Potentially costs Adelaide the chance to play finals.
“It’s no where near the padding. So did it hit the post? Umpire in best position but can’t afford to guess. Crazy scenes all round.”
Footy journalist Rohan Connolly mentioned: “Yep, gotta say after seeing those replays, looks to me to be pretty clearly a goal. Adelaide stiff indeed. Pretty unbelievable that the goal umpire hasn’t at least called for a score review.”
SEN’s Nic Negrepontis mentioned: “If goal umpires aren’t reviewing that, with everything at stake, then what’s the point of the review?”
It’s chilly consolation for the Crows, given there isn’t a means the AFL would take into account overturning the outcome.
Dermott Brereton mentioned he believed the proof was “definitive” and {that a} purpose ought to’ve been awarded – and that it’d depart the AFL in a difficult place from a PR perspective.
“I don’t know where the AFL go with this, because it’s definitive with what we see now that it was a goal,” Brereton informed Fox Footy.
“This is their worst nightmare, because every time we see a bung decision, people say: ‘You wouldn’t want to miss a Grand Final on that. You wouldn’t want to miss the finals on that.’ Well, a team is missing the finals on a bung decision when we assume that the technology is there to get the absolute and correct decision. The true decision, the right decision has not been found here.
“I feel there’s a real injustice here. You play by the league’s rules, the league introduces technology so that the right result is found, they have the technology. Clearly if there was something ‘down’ on the night, those two pieces of footage – marry them together and you can make a decision straight away, within 10 seconds.
“That is definitive. There is no grey area there. The league cannot say ‘it was grey’. They have to say ‘we got it wrong’ and it is costing a team a berth in the finals.
Asked how the AFL would handle the issue on Sunday, Brereton said: “I think the AFL will come out and admit some responsibility, but I don’t know how they get through this. I don’t know how they sell it.
“We have a sport where each team needs to turn over $50-plus million a year and we have 18 teams – that’s a huge industry – and we can’t get that right? That’s kids stuff. That just shouldn’t happen.
“If you’ve got an industry seeking the ultimate success and you’re doing everything to get it and you clearly play by the league’s rules and you achieve that and their technology doesn’t allow for it or they make a mistake … we’ve got something wrong.”
Triple premiership ahead Cameron Mooney mentioned he couldn’t consider a rating overview wasn’t known as for.
“We generally see anything remotely close that might be touched, they always go to the score review,” he informed Fox Footy.
“I think this is human error, more than anything, because we didn’t even get a chance to go to the cameras and the angles. Unfortunately this is just a human error.
“Nothing good is going to come out of this from an Adelaide point of view. I don’t believe you can turn it (the result).”
Source: www.news.com.au
