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Goal Umpiring and the Arc.

Demon17
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The uproar around Tom Lynch's last quarter point in the Tigers/Lions match would maybe not have occurred if the AFL had rectified this issue following Max's certain goal in the 2nd quarter of the GF last year. Max and the crowd knew it was a wrong call, luckily it didn't cost us the flag but it could have halted the Dogs momentum. This error did cost the Tigers the match.

The brisbane-based goal umpire that made that call was in his first year at AFL level and had a total of 15 senior games to date . This is from an unimpeachable source.

No criticism of that umpire doing his very best in a high pressure job and best wishes to him -  but AFL operations need to look hard at themselves. -its their fault this issue occurred.

'Details' like this are not considered important?

I'd pay the airfare up to Qld. myself if I thought it was a finanacail decison by the league to save a bit of cash.

Tiges should be fuming.

Only Whately seems to have the courage to seriously call out this decison and its all too predictable justification by the AFL Review team in what was a season ending mistake for the Tiges.

BTW - that decision went 100% against their own rule of irrefutable evidence to overturn the umpire's call.  Explain that someone.

 

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    In a world of UHD and 4K cameras, the AFL seems happy to stay with 10 years old technology. Surprised that the pictures aren’t published in black and white

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    Simple solution really. Should have a high res camera mounted in the stands looking parallel to the goal line at the upper part of the posts. Ridiculous that the decision was made from the camera perspective shown on the TV feed

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    1 hour ago, Demon Disciple said:

    In a world of UHD and 4K cameras, the AFL seems happy to stay with 10 years old technology. Surprised that the pictures aren’t published in black and white

    They should go off court room sketch artists' drawings of the scoring attempt. Would be more accurate and possibly faster.

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