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Geelong forward Steven Motlop celebrates a goal against St Kilda. Source: Michael Dodge / Getty Images
WE PICK the biggest umpiring eyebrow-raisers of the weekend.
Each week we'll nominate the most controversial, baffling and unusual umpiring calls - all the interests of raising issues of rule interpretation so important to our game.
If you've seen an incident we missed, let us know. And if we get an explanation from AFL House, we'll put that up here as well.
DID MOTLOP PLAY ON?
Geelong forward Steve Motlop was at his electric best on Saturday night, but should he have been credited with one extra kick on the stats sheet?
Motlop was lining up for a set at goal late in the first term when he bizarrely kicked the ball to himself at the top of his run-up.
The umpire didn't react and the players went on as if nothing unusual had happened, but surely if you kick the ball that's play on - even if it is to yourself.
The call would have been a lot more interesting if Motlop was kicking to win the game after the siren.
CATS MAKE MOST OF UMPIRE FALCON
Two other incidents at Skilled Stadium tested the umpires' memory of rules that only come into force once or twice a season.
Late in the third term James Podsiadly kicked the ball straight into an umpire's head, gathered it on the rebound and delivered to Steve Johnson for a goal.
That makes it even after Stevie J was dudded by the same rule - that it's play on if the ball rebounds off an ump - against Brisbane in Round 13. On that occasion a Johnson kick out of defence rebounded off an umpire's foot straight to Dayne Zorko, who turned around and kicked a goal.
There was another eyebrow-raiser on Saturday night when Tom Hawkins sprayed a set shot at goal from behond the boundary line out on the full - and the umpire called for a throw-in where Tomahawk too his kick.
The rule says if the ball doesn't re-enter the field of play it's deemed out of bounds, but that does seem very generous. If a player can't manage to kick the ball back into the field, surely he doesn't deserve another crack.
TIGERS' VIDEO REPLAY
Richmond fans are very familiar with the rules around the video goal review system after a controversial late non-goal against Fremantle early in the season.
At least they thought they were until yesterday.
The AFL explained the reason the umpires did not go to the video in Round 5 was because Matt White's shot bounced off the umpire (see rule above) and back into play - so it was still live.
But yesterday the umps at the SCG ignored that when they called for a review after a Jesse White bomb was touched right on the line by Ivan Maric.
Maric tapped the ball back into play, where it was scooped up by Daniel Jackson. Jacko was stopped in his tracks when the AFL ran in to go to the replay.
The video ruled the ball had crossed the line - just - before Maric got a hand to it, but what would have happened if he touched it a couple of millimetres earlier? It clearly wouldn't have been a goal, but it couldn't be a behind either - a ball-up at the top of the goalsquare perhaps? That would be tough on Jackson.
The difference this time was the goal ump's original call was a goal, but it's lucky he was right. And it didn't happen in a tight final quarter in a Grand Final.
PIES GET AWAY WITH ONE
Jeremy Cameron set the MCG alight on Saturday with seven goals, but he could make a strong case it should have been eight.
Jezza was mauled by Collingwood defender Nathan Brown 25m out directly in front early in the final term, but the umpire waved "play on".
Making the call even more baffling was the fact Dane Swan had just kicked a goal after winning a holding free for what can generously be termed minimal contact at the other end.
Dermott Brereton was stumped on Fox Footy: "(It was) over the shoulder, tugging the jumper, the only thing he didn't do was trip him."
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