Hawthorn is planning to ask the AFL for a please clarify over a weird second throughout Thursday evening’s win over St Kilda.
The Hawks gained the sport 18.11 (119) to 9.13 (67) due to a dominant first half through which the lowly Saints managed simply 5 behinds.
Sam Mitchell‘s facet was main by 50 factors when gun small ahead Nick Watson lined up for a set shot because the half-time siren sounded at Marvel Stadium.
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Watson’s kick from the pocket sailed via the large sticks for a purpose and the published scoreboard confirmed 61-5 because the gamers left the sphere for the primary break.
However when the published returned from an advert break the scoreboard bizarrely confirmed Hawthorn main 55-5, with Watson’s purpose having been rubbed off.
It was revealed the sphere umpire standing behind Watson as he took the set shot adjudged the Hawks star to have run off his line.
Nick Watson kicks for purpose because the umpire calls play on. Fox Footy
If a participant runs off their line throughout a set shot it’s play-on, and if it occurs after a siren has sounded then it guidelines the kick void.
However replays confirmed Watson had barely moved off his line and if he did, he moved within the path of the boundary line relatively than shifting infield to make the kick simpler.
“That’s so pedantic from that umpire,” Saints nice Joe Montagna stated on Fox Footy.
“Nick Watson usually runs out with way more of an arc, so he has really tried to run straighter then he often would, he is gone boundary facet too.
“I can not perceive why the umpire would even trouble to name play on and intrude with that kick.”
Whereas the kick made no distinction to the results of the sport, Hawthorn coach Mitchell stated he’ll ask the AFL to think about altering the rule.
The play-on rule is designed to cease a kicker gaining an unfair benefit whereas capturing for purpose, however Mitchell says shifting additional in direction of the boundary couldn’t presumably create a bonus.
Nick Watson of the Hawks celebrates kicking a purpose. Getty
“We will definitely be going to the AFL to ask about it,” Mitchell stated.
“It is smart to me that that could be a rule on the opposite facet of the bottom, without any consideration footer.
“There may be completely no purpose {that a} participant would go wider to provide themselves a bonus. That is what the rule was made for, and it is smart.
“The imaginative and prescient does not appear to be he goes off the road a lot, however that’s the umpire’s name and I can settle for that.
“However the truth that you possibly can go off the road in direction of the boundary and or not it’s known as play on makes completely no sense, there isn’t a frequent sense about that.
“I might hope we get a solution from the AFL and I am positive we’ll, they’ve been fairly good about that, when one thing does not make sense they repair it fairly shortly.
“Why would he run wider to provide himself a tougher shot? It did not make a whole lot of sense… I hope that is one thing they rectify.”
Watson ended up kicking 2.1 for the evening as his Hawks moved as much as third spot on the AFL ladder.
