More AFL Policy on the run

[Life Long Saint]

This time it's the use of technology to "decide" goals and points.

Classic examples of this farce occurred in all games over the weekend.

What is the point of having a rule that relies on technology and then not ensure that sufficient technology is in place to support it?

It is pointless going to to the fourth umpire to adjudicate a touched ball on the goal line when there is no camera on the goal line to supply evidence. Imagine if the square leg umpire in cricket called for a replay to decide a run out or stumping only to use the footage of the decision from behind the main umpire?

Just like the initial Waverley Park lights out debacle through the siren incident in Launceston to the interchange rule sticky note system the AFL have had a long history of creating poorly thought through policy on the fly.

[dragit]

Hilarious really,
introduce the ability to refer to video for accurate goal line decisions, but no cameras anywhere near the right spot for judging them…

On par with the very concise free agency compensation rules…

"His original club will receive a compensation pick for the loss of the player, on an AFL-determined formula"
with no other details,

in other words, we'll make it up on the go, depending on who loses out and how noisy their president is…

[Saint_Ash]

Agreed.

Most referrals came back 'inconclusive' so really gave no real advantage of using the technology.

And further to that during one of the Port games yesterday (I think it was against Adelaide), the Port defender clearly had his hand on the ball whilst it was on the line (not fully over) and it wasn't referred by the on field umpires but whats worse the scorers/umpires in the box didn't interviene when seeing the same replays as what was being seen on tv.