It’ll be interesting to read responses from Jeff Gieschen and Adrian Anderson in coming days after a clearly incorrect goal umpiring decision in tonight’s West Coast v Essendon leg of the round one triple-header. Essendon’s Cory Dell'Olio, managed to make contact with the ball, below the knee,in the goalsquare, thus scoring a goal.
Despite there being, according to Adrian Anderson, an umpiring department staffer on hand with access to video replay, the goal umpire chose to make a decision — the wrong decision as it turns out on the video replay — on the spot.
We wonder what the instructions to goal umpires in Perth have been. Have they caught up with the news about video referral? Will Adrian Anderson consider resigning now that his much-vaunted video referral system has let through a howler? After all, he announced that the AFL would deploy the video technology in order to reduce errors.
Of course, AussieRulesBlog is partly tongue-in-cheek. The score made no difference to the result. The result was palpably unimportant.
We don’t agree with the decision to use video referral, but, if it’s there, why wasn’t it used to make sure we got the right decision?
Video Cock-up Number One. Don’t worry, dear reader, we’ll keep count for you.
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