As Carlton’s Charlie Curnow picks up the ball and snaps a goal to put his team in front midway through the second quarter at the MCG on Saturday night, Stuart Wenn makes a bold statement.Inside the ARC: The experts have eyes on the action from all angles.Wenn, one of the game’s most experienced former field umpires and the man in charge of score reviews during Saturday night’s game in Melbourne, immediately reviews his own call.
Within three years, football’s video review system has become a highly sophisticated and accurate tool that is ultimately helping the game in more ways than first thought. And on Saturday night,Located in a dark, windowless space in Marvel Stadium that feels more like the security centre at a casino, the AFL Review Centre is split into three sections, which all have their own room.This is the epicentre of the review centre, where every single score is analysed.
Every game is coded, meaning umpires can come into the review centre on Tuesdays and review their own performance, just like a player. On the other side is another team of two, with six screens and two champion data monitors, looking for potential concussions. The team can see exactly what club doctors are looking at on the bench and be utilised as another set of eyes.
Aside from fixed cameras down the ground, and one on each goal post, the review centre receives only the camera angles that the broadcaster affords them in each game. At Optus Stadium for Fremantle v Sydney, Fox Footy had 11 cameras operating at any given time. For the marquee match at the MCG, free-to-air broadcaster Seven had 13.
agerealfooty Still waiting for the super high definition footage from the Carlton Richmond game they supposedly had that no one else did.