UPDATED: The AFL confirmed to AAP that Cats forward Rachel Kearns’s viral double solo against the Western Bulldogs on Friday was illegal.
A solo is a Gaelic football skill which involves a player kicking the ball to themselves while running, and essentially replaces a bounce.
But the spokesperson said that solos don’t count as a bounce in the AFL and the Bulldogs should have been paid a free kick as Kearns’s blistering run exceeded the 15m threshold.
Gold Coast have also been slapped with a $10,000 suspended sanction.
Dekota Baron left their round 11 clash after copping a head knock, and the forward returned to the field although she hadn’t been given the green light from the AFL Review Centre (ARC) to come back.
A spokesperson for the Suns said the communication from the ARC was not immediately seen, and once they received the information, Baron was taken off.
AAP