Amid the euphoria after watching their group clinch a grand closing berth in heart-stopping scenes, Swans followers have most likely already forgotten the controversy.
However an umpire’s name within the dying minutes of Sydney’s one-point preliminary closing overcome Collingwood has Magpies supporters asking questions.
With 9 minutes remaining within the Swans’ 14.11 (95) to 14.10 (94) win on the SCG on Saturday, Tom Papley obtained a free kick deep in Sydney’s ahead 50 and slotted a aim to increase the hosts’ result in 20 factors.
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The umpire penalised Isaac Quaynor for prime contact on Papley, however he missed the very fact the Sydney pocket rocket had pushed Darcy Moore within the again.
The Papley main gave the Swans essential respiration area in a four-goal-to-one closing quarter within the Magpies’ favour.
“I reckon they will not get out of the carpark earlier than they begin speaking about was Papley a push within the again on Darcy Moore, or was it a mark or a free kick?” David King stated on Fox Footy’s post-game protection.
“It value a aim at a essential time.”
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Jason Dunstall challenged King.
“You get the rub,” Dunstall stated.
“There are choices all by way of the sport.”
Luke Hodge took exception to the umpire’s name on the time of the choice.
“The umpire had an ideal view of it,” Hodge stated on the Seven broadcast.
“Regarded like two fingers within the again for certain.”
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“He is aware of how large that was, Tom Papley,” Luke Darcy added on the Seven protection.
“Perhaps a bit of fortuitous.”
Collingwood coach Craig McRae performed down the importance of the free kick in his press convention.
“I do know at half-time, I believe we had given away three 50-metre penalties, and it wasn’t the truth that we might given them away; it was what we had been doing subsequent,” McRae stated.
“Like, rightly or wrongly, it is achieved. Get again and man the mark. Get on with it.
“You may’t simply sit there and wallow in your self-pity and say, ‘However I used to be laborious achieved by’. No. Get on with it, man the mark.
“Stand up and go once more.
“I used to be disenchanted with that a part of our sport.
“I will most likely watch the replay at some stage.
“You have a look at all of the little moments and suppose, ‘What about that?’. However I am not going to stay in that area. We’ll use it for gasoline.”
Sydney will meet Geelong within the grand closing on the MCG subsequent Saturday because it hunts its first premiership since 2012, when John Longmire led the Swans to glory in his second season as coach.
The Cats are eyeing their first title since 2011, when Chris Scott lifted Geelong to the top in his first season within the job.
Geelong reached this yr’s grand closing in a 71-point hammering of Brisbane on the MCG on Friday.
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