Docker Aaron Sandilands comes off the ground with a cut to his head. Source: Quinn Rooney / 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.
SANDI LANDS HARD
You could perhaps forgive all three umpires missing a player getting smacked in the face resulting in him leaving the field covered in blood, being subbed out and sent to hospital for scans on a possible fractured cheekbone - if he wasn't 211cm tall.
Aaron Sandilands didn't get a free kick after he copped an elbow from Jake Spencer that split open his face early in the clash against Melbourne yesterday. There were a lot of players flying for the ball but Spencer hit the pack front on and surely someone should have seen it.
SWAN FLIES UNDER RADAR
This one didn't create too much anger since it was late in the game and didn't affect the result, but it could go down as one of the most baffling missed free kicks of the season.
As the sun set over the SCG yesterday, St Kilda midfielder David Armitage was waiting for a pass on the wing when Ben McGlynn cleaned him up, somehow ending up upside-down as he crashed into Armitage's arms and face from front-on, sending him sprawling over the boundary line.
The umpire must have been caught up in the sheer athleticism of McGlynn's effort because he didn't pay a free kick despite having at least three to choose from.
DOG OF A DECISION
Not all the eyebrow-raisers of the weekend were missed frees. Bulldog Tory Dickson was awarded a free kick he clearly shouldn't have been in the tight last quarter at Etihad Stadium yesterday.
Dickson was poised to mark when Adelaide defender Daniel Talia got a last-minute fist on the ball - something that last time we checked, wasn't against the rules. Talia's arm might have brushed a hair on Dickson's earlobe in the act of spoiling and the Dog made sure the umpire didn't miss it by going to ground, almost grabbing Talia's hand in the process.
The guys doing the live match feed for the AFL website and SuperFooty didn't hide their feelings, describing the decision as "shocking" and "pathetic".
Dickson won the free and converted from 15m to give the Dogs a seven-point lead, and the Bulldogs kicked the next three goals to put the game out of Adelaide's reach.
COTCHIN CAN'T TAKE A TRICK
Trent Cotchin had a dirty day at the MCG on Saturday, held to just 14 disposals by Carlton's Ed Curnow.
And Curnow scored another win courtesy of the umpires late in the third term, when the ball rebounded off a tangle of legs over the boundary line on the Blues half-forward line.
The umpire paid out on the full against Cotchin and the Tigers skipper was still arguing the point when Marc Murphy played on and kicked long to the goalsquare, where Levi Casboult marked and converted from point-blank range.
Replays showed Cotchin had a case - the ball appeared to come off Curnow's boot. Cotchin may have also mentioned to the umps that the tagger was holding him by the arm as the pair chased the loose ball.
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