Little-known rule exposed in chaotic AFL thriller

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North Melbourne has won a 2nd consecutive crippled nether Alastair Clarkson aft surviving a arguable decorativeness successful a thriller against Fremantle successful Perth.

The Kangaroos looked well and genuinely location earlier Fremantle kicked 3 goals successful a substance of 4 minutes to guarantee immoderate heart-stopping last seconds.

With the seconds dwindling down, Fremantle had 1 past introduction wrong guardant 50 erstwhile Luke Ryan was fixed a escaped footwear for deliberate retired of bounds.

Ryan sent a agelong footwear heavy into Fremantle's guardant 50 earlier Daniel Howe swooped connected a shot successful quality wrong the extremity quadrate and kicked it towards the bound line.

The shot dribbled towards the boundary, reaching the enactment hardly a 2nd aft the siren rang arsenic Fremantle players protested for a deliberate retired of bounds determination to beryllium paid.

After a abbreviated conference, the umpires deemed that the siren had sounded anterior to the shot leaving the tract of play, truthful voiding the deliberate retired of bounds telephone and preserving the one-point triumph for North Melbourne.

The determination was made contempt the umpires deciding that they would wage Fremantle a deliberate retired of bounds escaped footwear soon aft Howe kicked the shot towards the boundary.

Replays connected Fox Footy showed 1 of the 4 tract umpires yelling "pay it" (the deliberate retired of bounds escaped kick, soon aft the shot near Howe's boot).

"It was called deliberate truthful it's each connected time, it's not astir the determination and the umpire's interpretation," Hawthorn large Dermott Brereton said connected Fox Footy.

Added Cameron Mooney: "The determination should beryllium deliberate, it's conscionable (a question of) whether the umpire got the accidental to marque the decision. It's going to beryllium debated."

It was different singular effect for the Clarkson era, with the Kangaroos incredibly already matching past season's wins total.

Last year's No.3 prime Harry Sheezel continued the stunning commencement to his AFL career, finishing with 30 disposals and 563 metres gained, portion prima midfielder Luke Davies-Uniacke added 30 disposals and a goal.

The Kangaroos will anticipation to marque it 3 consecutive erstwhile they look Clarkson's aged broadside Hawthorn successful Tasmania successful circular three.

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