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Mistake triggered goal review
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Author:  Lurker Blue [ Thu Apr 04, 2013 8:31 am ]
Post subject:  Mistake triggered goal review

For those of us wondering why the review of Yarran's goal wasn't called for until the ball was back in the centre square, here's why.

Mistake triggered goal review

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The AFL has admitted an amateurish communications bungle - where a field umpire wrongly believed he was listening to an official match observer - triggered a goal review that otherwise wouldn't have happened.

Thinking he was hearing official match observers in his earpiece, field umpire Jacob Mollison called for a review of Blue Chris Yarran's second-term goal in last Thursday night's Richmond-Carlton clash. It was later established, however, that Mollison had, in fact, reacted to informal communication out of the television broadcasters' production trucks that was somehow transmitted into the match umpires' earpieces.

Yarran celebrated a brilliant running goal close to half-time - a major signalled by a perfectly positioned goal umpire and initially cleared by field umpires - but the resumption of play was delayed after Mollison subsequently called for a goal review from the centre of the MCG.

''The umpires did hear an off-field discussion that wasn't from the observer's box,'' the AFL's Patrick Keane said after a round where the divisive technology proved problematic.
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''It was established that came from the Channel Seven tech truck. Our umpires can never hear any noise, apart from the observers, so that was a failure by Matchcom at the time.

''The umpires, hearing the discussion, did call for a review, and a review was conducted, because it must be conducted once the umpires have signalled on-field they wish for a review to occur.''

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