Play Nice Goal Umpire costs Adelaide a shot at finals, how do you stop it from happening again?

[St 07]

Adelaide are tanking. Pick 7 instead of 10 is how they stand to benefit from this scheme. But afl won't look into it....

 

[GoldbergsGold]

What kind of chip?

A computer chip, obviously.

 

[GoEaglesGoSGIO]

In that case a goal review was the only solution. He should definitely never officiate another AFL game ever again.
He made 2 mistakes. The 1st one is forgivable if his vision was impaired.
The 2nd by not calling for a review is gross negligence.

Its clearly not negligence.

If I ram a car into a lamp post with a 200m run up screaming "Im gonna get you lamp post" the courts probably not gonna say it was a accident

Same applies here. This was 100% his intent and we all 100% know why that was his intent

Dancing around the issue and pretending it doesnt exist will get us nowhere

 

[Alwaysacrow]

Swans would have probably won the clearance anyway and scored the winning goal.

There's no way you can say that for sure and you know it. Crows clearly had the upper hand in the last quarter. If they had reviewed it, it would have most likely been overturned and Crows were in the best position to win the game, that's all anyone can say for sure.

 

[Elixuh]

A computer chip, obviously.

Wouldn’t it be ruined if you tape a computer chip to the outside of the ball and a player kicks it

 

[Mr_Moogle]

Adelaide are tanking. Pick 7 instead of 10 is how they stand to benefit from this scheme. But afl won't look into it....

I wish were that smart.

 

[Soggy2112]

I see Crows supporters losing their minds over losing their supposed finals spot, but I highly doubt they could have made it anyway. I think The Bulldogs will probably finish eighth with 50 points, 2 points ahead of The Crows had they finished on 48 points.

We play West Coast.
Sydney play Melbourne
Bulldogs play Geelong
GWS play Carlton

We would’ve only needed two of those results to go our way, and all three teams would arguably go in as underdogs.

 

[GoldbergsGold]

Wouldn’t it be ruined if you tape a computer chip to the outside of the ball and a player kicks it

I know, it's crazy how often computer chips fly off those Soccer, tennis and cricket balls...

 

[PerthBoy86]

The footage was shot with a potato. It 'looked' like a goal with the potato footage. You can't say for 100% certain it was a goal when the frames between each still shot are so far apart. There's literally a 30 cm height difference of the ball from frame to frame. Not to mention the angles of the shot are limited. Not a single bit of footage showed the ball through the air then hitting the ground with a gap 100% of time - all footage had the ball equal to the post at some point throughout the shot. The inconclusive part is depth perception due to limited angles, let alone the rubbish frame rate which misses everything inbetween. Proven with the fact that one shot looks like it hit the pad and the other showing it way above it.

Now do I think it was a goal? I'm leaning towards yes. But it's not conclusive by any stretch of the imagination and it won't be until the AFL spends a small spec of it's billions on proper slow mo cameras.

Its enough frames per second to track it. Also look at the trajectory, theres no way it gets anywhere near the post. Unless the ball is actually a drone controlled by someone, there's no way in hell it snicks the post in one of those frames that apparently wasn't shown.

 

[RandB]

That only happens if the Swans beat Melbourne

If Melbourne win today they've locked in 4th and a likely MCG game week 1 of finals and double chance. Sydney will have more impetus to win I think and I reckon they'll get up. I'd even consider playing Grundy for the Swans game if Gawn is carrying anything.

A fair bit rests on today's game.

 

[Danger Zone]

I see Crows supporters losing their minds over losing their supposed finals spot, but I highly doubt they could have made it anyway. I think The Bulldogs will probably finish eighth with 50 points, 2 points ahead of The Crows had they finished on 48 points.

If you pick the favourites from here on out, we would have finished 7th. Guess we will see after next week.

 

[Flog_Toolist]

Presser is live now

‘Inexplicable’: McLachlan admits goal umpiring blunder but defends review system

The Crows have accepted they have no course of action to overturn the one-point loss but are privately seething the goal umpire did not review Ben Keays’ shot at goal.

www.theage.com.au

 

[GoEaglesGoSGIO]

The whole charade is laughable

Admit you saw dodgy betting patterns and fix it....

And this isnt the goal umpires fault in any way at all. You cant surround the game with criminal elements and cry when criminal actions occur

 

[scoops]

so we literally just got robbed?

 

[JP Sauce]

Lol

RiGhT iN fRoNt oF mE guy is here

Tex Walker getting sacked for missing from 25 out?

If Tex had a review system and that allowed a computer to retake the kick for him, I'm sure he'd have taken it.

 

[GoldbergsGold]

so we literally just got robbed?

Possibly, but there was over a minute left to go and Sydney could have countered the goal. You'll never know, though.

 

[Stamos]

There really has been some weapons grade *******tery in the umpiring ranks of late hasn't there?

Keays goal
Petracca goal
Cameron non goal

One of these things is not like the others...

 

[GoEaglesGoSGIO]

Huh?

Joke is he is trying to hide by being someone whose less hated then the umpire

 

[Flog_Toolist]

Gillon's response.

 

[St 07]

If Keays went back and kicked a nice big Jonathan Brown drop punt as opposed to floating in some slow ugly non masculine banana, this could have all been avoided

 

[Lavender Bushranger]

Joke is he is trying to hide by being someone whose less hated then the umpire

Oh.

Are you sure? That seems a bit too clever for Bigfooty.

 

[Free Agent]

AFL should give 4 points to Crows but at the same time Swans should keep there 4 points.

That would be the fairest outcome given this shitstorm

 

[PowerBaz]

On a lighter note, at least they play West Coast next week, will probably win by 200 points, and Rachele and Rankine can do stuff like this after each goal on the fence or in aisle 6... should be 'lit'

 

[PowerBaz]

AFL should give 4 points to Crows but at the same time Swans should keep there 4 points.

That would be the fairest outcome given this shitstorm

There was still time for someone to kick another goal, so it's not that simple. If it was in the last 2 seconds of play, sure, another story.

 

[Coach_Required]

Tom Lynch said it's clearly a point.
Umpires decision and all