Coach Craig McRae admits he “lost his mind” at a “staggering” umpiring blunder in Collingwood’s one-point AFL victory over Adelaide.
But the pragmatic Magpies boss says there is no level stewing over a choice involving Nathan Murphy – or different doubtful calls – in a frantic finale at Adelaide Oval.
Murphy was positioned underneath a excessive ball within the final quarter when Crow Darcy Fogarty crashed into him, front-on.
The Magpie appeared to carry the mark however it wasn’t paid, and he did not obtain a free kick both, regardless of the excessive front-on contact forcing him from the sphere with a bleeding nostril.
Compounding the matter, play wasn’t halted as Murphy was helped from the sphere, and the ball virtually hit him and medicos as they headed to the bench.
Collingwood’s Jordan De Goey soccered it over the boundary line, assuming play was to be stopped – however he was penalised for a deliberate out-of-bounds.
“I lost my mind,” McRae mentioned.
“Because one, whether it was a mark or a free kick – either, you could argue.
“But then there’s blood and he is attempting to exit the sphere and we did not get an opportunity to switch the participant within the essential second.
“I was astounded by it.”
McRae mentioned he would not search an evidence from umpires however “found it staggering”.
Nor will the Magpie coach ask why an apparent free kick to Ash Johnson within the dying minutes wasn’t paid. The Pie ahead, within the objective sq., was clearly taken excessive by Adelaide’s Jordon Butts.
“In the moment, I’m ‘What the hell is going on here’,” McRae mentioned.
“But then you move on. You can’t do anything about it now, can you?
“You can undergo each choice they made or did not make, that isn’t the place we reside.
“We make way more mistakes than they do.
“You make errors and transfer on, that is the best way I have a look at it.”
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
