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So an Ormond guy that was not in any officiating capacity believing it was his job to approach the umpires on the playing field to tell them that going by his watch the game went an extra 2 seconds.
Yeah that should be ok to take to the league as a protest. Good luck with that one Ormond!
Well, not quite.
Briza didn't tell the full story as the OC timekeeper sounded the siren when HIS clock went off, and it allegedly differed from the Ormond clock by 2 seconds.
He wasn't watching the play but rather his clock and they had gone by his clock for the first three quarters, so he really did nothing wrong.
Ormond would also have to prove the umpires would have heard it before the kick as the game is over when the ump hears it not when it is blown.
Either way it isn't approrpriate for a spectator to approach the umps on field about this, particuarly when for the first three quarters they had been using the OC clock, as they did in the last. To use the Ormoind clock suddenly, wouldn't have made much sense. Obviously everyone very emotional to lose in such dramatic circumstances
Mixfish quite rightly points out that the Ormond timekeeper didn't have a problem.
Issue dead.