READ MORE:<\/strong> Reporter's 'awkward' request stuns sports world<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n READ MORE:<\/strong> Serious allegations led sponsors to leave Supercars team<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Adelaide players widely appealed for holding the ball, only for the umpire to call fulltime, denying Taylor Walker a shot at goal to win the game.<\/p>\n Walker was left fuming over the disputed the call and remonstrated with the umpire\ufeff over the dubious ruling.<\/p>\n "He is a fire blanket that literally just put the Crows' season out. This is one of the all-time flops\u2026 that was a flat out holding the ball," Cameron Mooney said commentary.<\/p>\n "It was embarrassing, really\u2026 There's almost no excuse. That was as blatant as you can see," former Hawk Ben Dixon said.<\/p>\n Demons legend Garry Lyon added: "Adelaide might've thought they were unfortunate given big Sam Draper decided to lay on top of the footy. Not sure you can do that.<\/p>\n "It's unfair to isolate it into one incident at the end. But it looks to me like he fell on it and then hooked it back in."<\/p>\n Former Collingwood coach Nathan Buckley firmly believed it should've been called holding the ball against Draper.<\/p>\n "He's made sure it's there and lied on it. Technically in any part on the field at any time of the game, that is holding the ball. It was a little tap in then he laid on it," Buckley said.<\/p>\n "The reaction of the players was clear too. The umpire made the decision that was a ball up before the siren went because you saw the Adelaide players put their head in their hands (implying) 'that should've been a free kick'.<\/p>\n "Then the Essendon guys go up. It was a clear decision unaffected by the final siren."<\/p>\n To add insult to injury\ufeff, Draper had a laugh with his teammates and re-enacted the game-sealing flop while running off the field with teammates.<\/p>\n "That's just rubbing it in now," said Johnathan Brown.<\/p>\n Mooney later said: "Now he's actually taking the P-1-5-5 (piss)."<\/p>\n Essendon skipper Zach Merrett said the last few moments were nailbiting for all involved.<\/p>\n "I'll be honest I was holding my breath a little bit that last few seconds," Merrett said.<\/p>\n "We obviously learned the hard way last year against Port Adelaide kicking it out and Houston kicking an amazing goal.<\/p>\n "We've certainly spent a lot of time and work and energy on those moments. To execute it for the most part was very pleasing.<\/p>\n "But no doubt it was a line ball call."<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A last-second controversial umpiring decision marred Adelaide's loss to the Bombers, with Essendon player Sam Draper getting away with a clear infraction, and then re-enacting […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":386398,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386393"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=386393"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":386401,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386393\/revisions\/386401"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/386398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=386393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=386393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=386393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/p>\n
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