It seems it is only aggrieved coaches who highlight the failings in Adrian Anderson’s video review system for goal line decisions. Once again, the most glaring deficiency is the application of video review to determine whether a ball is touched off the boot out in the field.
The technology being employed is simply incapable of providing definitive evidence of balls being touched off the boot.
We were also told that players cannot call for a video review, yet it seems clear that field umpires are deciding to refer to video when there’s a clamour amongst players that the ball has been touched.
The trade-off in this ‘system’ is that an inconclusive video generates the lowest score. So, a Jobe Watson ‘goal’ in the pre-season and the Todd Goldstein ‘goal’ this last weekend have both been declared behinds, not because there was any evidence the ball had been touched, but because there was no conclusive evidence that it hadn’t been touched.
Lewis Carroll could have included this scenario in Through the Looking-Glass and it wouldn’t have looked out of place amongst the Mad Hatter, the Cheshire Cat and the Queen of Hearts.
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