A “crucial error” during the match between the Brisbane Lions and West Coast has had a huge impact on the result and the makeup of the top four according to Fox Footy’s Tom Morris.
The reporter believes that the clock was incorrectly stopped for 24 seconds in the final quarter before re-starting again.
The incident took place with 14:59 left on the clock in the final term when Jarrod Berry was lining up for goal.
“He takes the mark, that’s time off. There was a whistle and then you see the umpires arm go up,” Morris said on Fox Footy.
“That’s when the time was meant to start again, it doesn’t and that’s when 24 seconds were lost.”
Where it gets interesting is the fact that Lincoln McCarthy kicked the behind that put Brisbane into the top four with 20 seconds left on the clock.
According to Morris, the siren should have sounded approximately four seconds before the McCarthy behind.
The reporter believes that this is a problem the AFL must address after it happened several times last season as well.
“This is a simple error, it’s a crucial error that happened four times last year,” Morris added.
“I contacted the AFL and on every single occasion, there was no real response, no endeavour to change, no admission that something had gone wrong.
“On this occasion, something has gone wrong again and it has seriously affected the outcome of the game.”