{"id":635300,"date":"2026-04-28T02:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T02:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/635300\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T02:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T02:20:10","slug":"officials-scrutinised-after-round-of-incidents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/635300\/","title":{"rendered":"Officials scrutinised after round of incidents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph is-rich-chat-ui normal ng-star-inserted\" data-start-index=\"1534\">Following a controversial round, the AFL was subject to intense scrutiny over operational issues, including delayed and interrupted play stemming from an ARC review on a Marshall mark and a critical late goal decision in the Giants v Kangaroos match.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph is-rich-chat-ui normal ng-star-inserted\" data-start-index=\"1992\">Press PLAY to hear Brad Hardie discuss the latest AFL controversies<\/p>\n<p data-start-index=\"1992\">\n<p class=\"paragraph is-rich-chat-ui normal ng-star-inserted\" data-start-index=\"1784\">\u00a0Brad Hardie told 6PR Breakfast hosts Millsy and Karl that the umpires are not to blame for the incidents, but observed that their timing in seeking a pay rise was poor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph is-rich-chat-ui normal ng-star-inserted\" data-start-index=\"2085\">\u201cProbably just the wrong week for it to rear its head, I would have thought,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p data-start-index=\"2085\">\n<p data-start-index=\"2085\">Image: Sarah Reed\/AFL Photos via Getty Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following a controversial round, the AFL was subject to intense scrutiny over operational issues, including delayed and interrupted&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":635301,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-635300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635300","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=635300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/635301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}