in the Crows’ two-point loss to Fremantle last Friday night<\/a>.<\/p>\nUmpires missed the Dockers lining up at a centre bounce late in the Adelaide Oval clash with seven players in Adelaide’s forward line.<\/p>\n
That contravened the so-called ‘six-six-six’ rule dictating there must be six players from each club stationed in the midfield, and defensive and attacking 50m arcs, at centre bounces.<\/p>\n
“I understand that there was a mistake made and that was missed,” AFL chief executive Andrew Dillon told reporters on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
“It would have been a six-six-six warning.”<\/p>\n
The concession is the fifth time in less than three years the League has admitted a late umpiring mistake against the Crows in close losses.<\/p>\n
Adelaide’s Walker described the latest mistake as “obvious”.<\/p>\n
“I don’t get sick of mistakes because I reckon everyone in this vicinity has made a mistake in their life,” he said at a media call alongside Dillon, SA Premier Peter Malinauskas and Carlton’s Harry McKay on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
“I just would like to know what we’re doing about it.<\/p>\n
“Don’t continue to make apologies, but tell us what you’re going to do about it.<\/p>\n
“It’s not really about the Adelaide footy club at all … just gather round and find a solution for it, not be part of the mistake.”<\/p>\n
Dillon believed umpires “do a great job”.<\/p>\n
“We have got a four (field) umpire system which has been in place for a few years now,” he said.<\/p>\n
“What we saw in the first year of the four umpires was eight new umpires come on to our list<\/p>\n
“Those umpires now are up to their 30th, 40th, 50th game and I think we’re seeing the quality of umpiring, it’s going well and I think the four umpire system is working well.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Taylor Walker wants solutions to be found following a series of umpiring errors that have gone against Adelaide…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":594114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[64,63,85,83],"class_list":{"0":"post-594113","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-text"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594113","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=594113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/594114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}