Gillon McLachlan has revealed the devastating personal toll on the umpire whose blunder ended Adelaide’s season.
in a narrow defeat to Sydney in Round 23.
McLachlan said he personally rang the goal umpire in question, who was stood down for the rest of the season.“Whatever the accountability took, I don’t think the goal umpire was going to be in a position to be umpiring regardless,” McLachlan said at the AFL finals launch on Monday. “It was a mistake that had brutal consequences but we’ve reviewed every part of that,” McLachlan added.“We’ve made a change for the finals where there will be two score reviewers in the ARC with a very definitive mandate for one of them to stop if there’s any risk.McLachlan also backed the pre-finals bye as debate continues around whether the week off should be moved to sit immediately before the grand final.
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