Former AFL umpire Ray Chamberlain has ticked off the controversial insufficient intent decision against Karl Amon in Hawthorn’s loss to Brisbane.

And Melbourne legend Garry Lyon agrees.

Amon was pinged by the umpire in the final six minutes of Sunday night’s Gabba clash after missing a handball to open teammate Jack Ginnivan in the back pocket that went directly out of bounds.

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Lion Bruce Reville made Hawthorn pay with a crucial snap goal as the reigning premiers went on to win and secure their spot in the top four.

The contentious decision came under scrutiny in the aftermath, despite Sam Mitchell saying his side would “worry about the (moments) we can control.”

But Chamberlain, who umpired almost 400 AFL games and is back officiating in AFLW, believes the whistleblowers made the right call given it didn’t appear to be a skill error from Amon.

“Once he disposes of the ball, it goes nowhere near his teammate. He actually handballs it to the umpire (standing out of bounds),” Chamberlain said on Fox Footy’s AFL 360.

“Unless it’s a skill error – that’s the decision you need to ask yourself here – like is it a kick off the side of the boot or not? I don’t think Karl Amon has handballed that off the side of his hand at all.

“The question that is posed to the player by the law: Have you shown sufficient intent to keep the ball in?

“That’s what the umpires are being asked to do on field.”

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Lyon endorsed the outcome, saying Amon was too careless in a pivotal part of the ground.

“I think I’m with Ray on this, which is going to surprise everyone. And Hawthorn supporters are going to hate it,” Lyon began on the program.

“In that instance, Karl Amon has to take the most care of all. Because the ramifications of getting it wrong are where it was on the ground. He doesn’t take any (care).

“At worst, it’s insufficient care on the handball. You don’t miss that. I mean, you can miss a handball, everyone misses handballs.”

Lyon suggested the angle from behind shows how blatant the blunder was, but did question why Amon would’ve wanted to send the ball out of bounds in Brisbane’s forward 50.

The behind angle of the Amon blunder.Source: FOX

“He’s on the back-pedal, that’s very lazy. When you see it from behind and how far he misses this handball by,” the former Demons skipper added.

“The only question is, why would he handball it out of bounds? There’s no real reason for him to want this to be a boundary throw in when he’s got teammates there.

“They’re so good with their hands, there’s two v one there.

“There’s no real reason (to handball it out of bounds), that’s the only out I’m having.”

Chamberlain added: “I look at that angle and I would say, well (he wanted the boundary line) because he’s got defenders sweating on his teammate and he probably doesn’t have a clean exit. So he’s gone: ‘I’ll take this on’.”