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And then late in the match, Adelaide\u2019s Nick Murray was able to walk the ball across the goal line \u2013 at a time when the Blues could have closed to within just 12 points with five minutes still to play.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think we\u2019ve still got a problem with the interpretation of the boundary line and the goal line,\u201d Fox Footy\u2019s David King said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy you can run your ball across and give away a rushed behind, and you can have the smallest of errors from (Nick) Haynes on the boundary between the arcs and it\u2019s a free kick?<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it\u2019s a poorer look for our game if you can rush a score. <\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ll ask you, what do you want (Haynes) to do in that position?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a free kick if he lets it go!\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah. Can he try and knock the ball straight back in?\u201d journalist Jon Ralph replied.<\/p>\n
\u201cThen he knocks it back to his opponent from Adelaide. So that\u2019s what the AFL would say, don\u2019t kick the ball to the boundary, don\u2019t try to just ease the ball out. It\u2019s almost impossible for Nick Haynes there. That\u2019s the challenge.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt has incentivised some corridor play \u2026 but I can understand your frustration and Nick\u2019s frustration there.\u201d<\/p>\n
As Fox Footy\u2019s experts agreed the Haynes call was \u201ctoo strict\u201d, King said the demanding new rules could cost players their spots.<\/p>\n
\u201c(Haynes\u2019) momentum takes him over the ground \u2013 unless he throws it back to the opposition player, I don\u2019t know what you expect the bloke to do,\u201d Jason Dunstall said.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou get delisted if you throw that back in,\u201d King added.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe coaches wouldn\u2019t have that. Just giving too much of a free run.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think that\u2019s just over-officiation.\u201d<\/p>\n
Crows snap three game losing streak | 03:51<\/p>\n
The Blues\u2019 frustration wasn\u2019t quelled in the third term when a blatant throw from Adelaide\u2019s Josh Rachele was missed deep in defence late in the third term \u2013 at a time where Carlton had the ball locked in their half and would have narrowed the gap to just 18 points.<\/p>\n
Instead, the throw went undetected and moments later, Adelaide\u2019s Alex Neal-Bullen won the shot on goal after getting an out-of-bounds review through the ARC.<\/p>\n
The umpire\u2019s mic picked up Neal-Bullen pleading to \u201cchallenge\u201d the initial call to throw the ball in.<\/p>\n
And the subsequent review found the Crow successfully handballed the footy into the lower leg of opponent Ollie Florent. He then nailed the resulting snap on goal.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019d be irate if I were a Carlton supporter. After the throw down the other end \u2013 irate!!\u201d triple premiership Tiger Jack Riewoldt said on Fox Footy. <\/p>\n
\u201cWhy are they looking at that one and not the one down the other end, where there\u2019s a complete throw?\u201d<\/p>\n
Replays showed Rachele threw a cut-out rugby pass to a teammate that was missed by umpires in the driving rain.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat annoys me there \u2013 you get the ARC to go and look at the things on the sideline,\u201d Riewoldt said.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou see a flat-out throw from Josh Rachele that gets missed \u2013 you can sense why there\u2019s frustration around it.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn a critical part of the ground as well (the Rachele throw).<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s a shot on goal!<\/p>\n
\u201cA missed opportunity for Carlton.\u201d<\/p>\n
Carlton players react as Nick Murray walked the ball over the goal line.Source: FOX SPORTS<\/p>\n
Riewoldt called for the ARC system to only be used in the final minutes of matches \u2013 rather than throughout the night for boundary infringements.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re seeing more and more interventions \u2026 the issue here, as Jack Riewoldt put it so well, is that Josh Rachele blatant throw which could have resulted in the Carlton goal, wasn\u2019t overruled,\u201d Ralph said.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo we\u2019re not seeing any umpiring decision overruled \u2013 we\u2019re only seeing them on the boundary line. We\u2019re seeing some goal-line decisions reviewed after the fact. It\u2019s a challenge there.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat one in isolation was right \u2013 but as Alex Neal-Bullen said, we want some real consistency here.<\/p>\n
\u201cMaybe we\u2019re not seeing that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Carlton coach Michael Voss touched on the 23-28 free kick count in his post-match press conference, but felt Blues big man Harry McKay \u201ccould have been rewarded more\u201d in the wet conditions.<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought Harry competed really hard \u2014 sometimes against three players! Could have been a little bit luckier tonight maybe in some contests,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think he could have been rewarded a little bit more.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ll go back to make sure I\u2019m not making any accusations there.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There\u2019s growing uncertainty over the AFL\u2019s review system, and it soured an already frustrating night for the Blues…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":596518,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[9126,638,64,63,55,639,291180,291186,19530,3239,3464,291183,1818,38429,20427,291178,291181,291184,1823,12149,681,45746,3257,25574,49673,8015,4873,25569,291187,291182,291185,85,291179,61428,54907],"class_list":{"0":"post-596517","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-afl","8":"tag-adelaide-crows","9":"tag-afl","10":"tag-au","11":"tag-australia","12":"tag-australian-football-league","13":"tag-australianfootballleague","14":"tag-blatant-throw","15":"tag-boundary-infringements","16":"tag-boundary-line","17":"tag-carlton-blues","18":"tag-chelsea-football-club","19":"tag-corridor-play","20":"tag-david-king","21":"tag-game-losing-streak","22":"tag-goal-line","23":"tag-goal-line-decisions","24":"tag-growing-uncertainty","25":"tag-insufficient-intent-decision","26":"tag-jack-riewoldt","27":"tag-jason-dunstall","28":"tag-jon-ralph","29":"tag-josh-rachele","30":"tag-michael-voss","31":"tag-nick-haynes","32":"tag-ollie-florent","33":"tag-opposition-player","34":"tag-post-match-press-conference","35":"tag-real-consistency","36":"tag-review-system","37":"tag-rule-flaw","38":"tag-second-half-fightback-attempt","39":"tag-sports","40":"tag-umpiring-calls","41":"tag-umpiring-controversy","42":"tag-umpiring-decision"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596517","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=596517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/596518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}