Tuesday, June 24, 2014: More cameras....

Mark Evans is a dreamer. We'd love to visit the office of the AFL's football operations manager, for one can only assume it is filled with crazy prototypes and schematics for everything from cameras inside the ball to a NAB Challenge match between the Gold Coast Suns and a team of holographic hall-of-famers. That's just the way Evans operates; outside the envelope, and we love it.

Take yesterday for example, when Evans handled with aplomb the revelation that even with goal-line cameras, his review system is an incongruous, frustrating and largely unnecessary inconvenience for all involved - usually offering little if any clarity on the situation and then referring back to the on-field umpire anyway. While some, your humble correspondents included, would consider this a sign that perhaps the project had run its course, Evans isn't that pessimistic. When it first failed, he demanded more cameras. Now that those cameras have failed, he's hinted at even more cameras...

"I think as we see more examples, we'll get a better answer out of whether it's touched before or after the line, whether it was a proper kick" said Evans as he received his own kicking for robbing Jack Ziebell of a goal on Sunday. "But the difficult ones for this system are still going to be whether the ball was touched off the boot or in flight, or whether it feathers the post."

"It would be difficult for us to solved that... unless we had 50 cameras lined up behind the goal....." He concluded, before excitedly waddling back to his office - presumably to look for more cameras.

In the news...
Bulldog Daniel Giansiracusa headlines the list of sanctions from the MRP, his high shot on Jared Polec will see him miss two weeks. Jason Winderlich and Jordan McKenzie have each copped a week.

St. Kilda's first round pick Jack Billings has been named the round 14 NAB Rising Star after an impressive performance against West Coast. "I'm really enjoying my footy at the moment" he read aloud from the AFLPA's What-to-say-when-you-win-the-Rising-Star handbook.

And in terrible news for Kangaroos players name Robbie, Nahas and Tarrant could each miss the rest of the season with injuries. "We have a number of things to consider, and the decision will ultimately be Robbie's to make" said football director Geoff Walsh.