'Two goal umpires': McGuire's bold call for ARC technology

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AFL media property Eddie McGuire has suggested a solution to the league's extremity enactment technology, arsenic furore continues aft the Blues and Melbourne game.

Carlton's Caleb Marchbank claimed helium touched the shot connected the enactment with a 2nd remaining against Melbourne connected Saturday night, with the umpire's brushed telephone of 'touched' honoured contempt uproar.

"I accidental we should person 2 extremity umpires," McGuire said connected Wide World of Sports' Eddie and Jimmy podcast.

"The ARC is determination arsenic an aid. The extremity umpire is inactive determination to marque the decisions.

AFL Field Umpire Robert Findlay signals for a people reappraisal connected Saturday night. (AFL Photos via Getty Images)

"The worst spot connected world to basal is betwixt the extremity posts arsenic a almighty battalion of men, who are each astir 85-90 kilos with murderous intent to interaction a ball, descend connected the 1 spot wherever the small weedy umpire is."

McGuire was speedy to adhd that helium believed the league was dissecting the "wrong part" of the incident.

"No, I don't deliberation it was (touched) and I'll archer you why, due to the fact that they're looking astatine the incorrect portion of it," McGuire said.

"If you ticker the trajectory of the ball, it didn't deviate. There mightiness person been a small scratchy-scratchy, but it didn't travel up."

As for what McGuire suggests the league bash next, helium is anxious to get his new-aged shot into the mainstream crippled successful bid to trim costly disorder similar Saturday night.

"I'm progressive successful processing a shot with a chip, which would really archer you whether oregon not determination was a deflection, oregon astatine slightest capable of a deflection to springiness that free footwear 1 mode oregon the other," McGuire said.

But the ex-Collingwood president knows it's not going to beryllium casual oregon inexpensive for the AFL to marque the required improvements up of the finals.

"In this situation, radical accidental 'why don't they enactment a ace dilatory mo camera?' The ace dilatory mo camera costs a luck and you can't enactment them connected each station successful Australia," helium said.

"You've got to retrieve there's parallax error. There's each sorts of antithetic things."

Christian Petracca and Trent Rivers observe and hold umpire confirmation connected Saturday night. (AFL Photos via Getty Images)

McGuire's suggestions travel aft Essendon champion Matthew Lloyd besides raised concerns with the AFL's extremity enactment technology connected Nine's Sunday Footy Show.

"If this was a last oregon a expansive final, this extremity enactment exertion is the champion that we've got?" Lloyd said connected Nine's Sunday Footy Show.

Carlton present look apt to decorativeness successful the apical six, facing the 15th-placed Gold Coast Suns connected Saturday.

Meantime, the Demons are anxious to fastener successful a apical 4 decorativeness with a triumph implicit the charging Hawks connected Sunday.

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