{"id":32099,"date":"2016-05-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/mark-evans-admits-umpiring-errors-were-made-during-crows-loss-to-bulldogs-2\/"},"modified":"2016-05-11T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T00:00:00","slug":"mark-evans-admits-umpiring-errors-were-made-during-crows-loss-to-bulldogs-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/mark-evans-admits-umpiring-errors-were-made-during-crows-loss-to-bulldogs-2\/","title":{"rendered":"AFL footy boss admits umpiring errors were made during Crows loss to Bulldogs"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The AFL\u2019s general manager of football Mark Evans has conceded that umpiring mistakes were made during Adelaide\u2019s loss to the Western Bulldogs, but stands by the umpire who paid 17 to one free kicks in favour of the Bulldogs.<\/h3>\n

\u201cAbsolutely,\u201d Evans told Rowey and Bicks on FIVEAA when asked whether mistakes were made.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe free kick count was a heavily skewed count, not that it has to be equal. But certainly every time you see something like that you look for what are the errors.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou look at missed free kicks and you look at the incorrect free kicks that were paid.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome of those certainly favoured the Bulldogs, and some of those favoured Adelaide. When you look at them on balance, the differential would\u2019ve been closer but it would not have ended up equal.<\/p>\n

\u201cA couple would\u2019ve come off the Bulldogs and certainly some more would\u2019ve been added to Adelaide.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe gap would\u2019ve come down by about a third,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

LISTEN TO MARK EVANS HERE:<\/h3>\n