{"id":160137,"date":"2025-09-22T03:10:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T03:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/160137\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T03:10:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T03:10:12","slug":"afl-handbook-sheds-light-on-controversial-2025-wafl-grand-final-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/160137\/","title":{"rendered":"AFL handbook sheds light on controversial 2025 WAFL Grand Final call"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2025 WAFL Grand Final concluded with a controversial decision that has left East Perth supporters feeling short-changed.<\/p>\n<p>Click PLAY to hear the concerns explained.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Veteran umpire expert Dean Margetts, leveraging his comprehensive understanding of the rules, addressed all of 6PR Breakfast host\u2019s Millsy and Karl\u2019s questions. <\/p>\n<p>He highlighted that umpires are guided not only by the official law book but also by a supplementary AFL handbook, which provides crucial additional clarity in specific match situations. <\/p>\n<p>Margetts advocated for this handbook to be made public knowledge, stating, \u201cIn there it clearly states that in that circumstance that\u2019s where it can\u2019t be paid.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hear more highlights from Breakfast with Millsy &amp; Karl below and download the 6PR app on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/au\/app\/6pr\/id443067670\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">iOS<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.thisisaim.radio6pr&amp;hl=en_AU\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Android<\/a>\u00a0to ensure you don\u2019t miss a thing!<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Image: Facebook | South Fremantle Football Club<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2025 WAFL Grand Final concluded with a controversial decision that has left East Perth supporters feeling short-changed.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-160137","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-afl","8":"tag-afl","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-australian-football-league","12":"tag-australianfootballleague","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}