'Wrong": AFL's verdict over dubious call blasted

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The AFL satellite remains divided by the arguable decorativeness to the circular 2 match-up betwixt the Kangaroos and the Dockers, with the sheet of Nine's AFL Sunday Footy Show agreeing the "rule that needs to beryllium looked at".

The AFL has since okayed the umpiring determination which permitted North Melbourne's one-point triumph implicit Fremantle connected Saturday night, concluding: "The last siren sounded earlier the shot goes retired of play.

"The umpire's determination connected the crushed was correct."

"The cardinal instrumentality distant determination was that the siren went before the shot was retired of bound," writer Damien Barrett told the Sunday Footy Show.

"Effectively the shot was kicked, the umpires heard the siren and the shot went retired of bounds - that's the AFL's mentation of it.

"I would ideate determination mightiness beryllium immoderate Fremantle supporters who whitethorn person done the bid of events whitethorn person been their mode leading, which would person resulted successful a imaginable escaped footwear aft the siren for a changeable astatine extremity to perchance level the scores."

The Kangaroos looked well and genuinely location successful the 4th fourth earlier Fremantle kicked 3 goals successful a substance of 4 minutes to acceptable up an exhilarating last fewer seconds.

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

Ryan sent a agelong footwear heavy into Fremantle's guardant 50 earlier Daniel Howe swooped connected a shot successful a 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 out-of-bounds determination to beryllium paid.

After a abbreviated conference, the umpires deemed that the siren had sounded earlier the shot near the tract of play, truthful voiding the deliberate out-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.

Impartial to the effect of the match, big Tony Jones argued the verdict was misguided.

"I deliberation the AFL is wholly wrong," helium said.

"I deliberation the siren sounded aft the shot went retired of bounds."

"I don't deliberation you're unsocial successful that," Barrett added.

"As a viewer, I thought astatine the clip it was going to beryllium [paid arsenic deliberate] arsenic well. Layer it with what the AFL has said today, I tin spot wherefore they didn't [pay it].

"Again, it's successful the oculus and the receptor of the beholder isn't it?

Former prima Nathan Brown questioned whether the umpires should person been capable to telephone for the ARC to assistance marque a cautious telephone during a precise aggravated moment.

"I deliberation the umpires did the champion occupation they could with what they had successful their hands successful the infinitesimal - I mean it was a precise hard concern - that's wherefore it astir apt needs to spell to the ARC," helium said.

"I deliberation they should person that enactment there," Jones added.

"I deliberation 1 of the [Fremantle] players asked that question, 'Can we look backmost astatine it', and the umpire said, 'No we can't'.

"To debar thing similar this, and the eventual embarrassment being connected expansive last day, I deliberation - I'm not a large instrumentality of video reviews but we've got them truthful usage them - they should person the quality successful situations similar that wherever the crippled hinges connected the last second, wherever they bash spell to the video.

"I deliberation it's conclusive."

Speaking during the AFL's The Round So Far, writer Riley Beveridge explained that according to the game's rules, the shot is not deemed retired of bounds until the bound umpire calls it retired of bounds.

"Based connected that, [the determination is] correct," Jones said.

"Yes, based connected that it is close but I'm not definite that's what the AFL said," Kane Cornes added.

"No they haven't, they've conscionable said, 'The siren went earlier the shot went out', which is wrong," Jones replied.

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