Fans React To Contentious Deliberate Call

Divisive


6 May 2017

Footy fans — Tigers fans in particular — are up in arms after a what appeared to be a dodgy deliberate out of bounds call late in tonight’s Western Bulldogs v RIchmond match.

With 30 seconds left, Richmond defender Jayden Short appeared to try and pick up the ball in the Tigers’ forward but instead fumbled it across the boundary line.

He then got pinged for deliberate.

Watch it here:

Fans reacted vociferously, with some fuming that the decision could be paid:

While other (admittedly fewer) fans thought it the call was right:

So what’s your verdict? Deliberate or not?