If there was ever a weekend for the AFL Review Centre to lay low, it was this one.

Alas, score review controversy again reared its head at Adelaide Oval – this time in Friday night’s Showdown.

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Halfway through the third quarter, with the Crows down 13 points, Jake Soligo appeared to snap a high-arching goal from just outside the goalsquare on a slight angle.

The adjudicating goal umpire didn’t need any time trying to decide on his decision, almost immediately signalling a goal.

“Good call, goal umpire. Thought he might’ve went for the score review – (because) he would have seen nothing,” former Power coach Ken Hinkley said in immediate reaction.

“I reckon it is a brave call by the umpire, actually. That’s what we need in the game – we need them to be brave enough to make that call.

“Because even with the score review, we’re not going to tell whether that ball’s gone over the top of the goal post or not … I just think it’s call what you see.”

But despite Hinkley’s praise, and just as everything seemed kosher and the ball went back to the centre for the next ball-up, the ARC called for a delayed score review.

“They said it was a goal, so they’re going to have to prove it was a point,” Ricciuto said.

Hinkley chimed in: “You can’t; I just don’t think you can.”

The Fox Footy broadcast showed what appeared to be inconclusive vision of Soligo’s kick.

Audio from the ARC then played: “Review complete – looking at these angles, we can see the ball crosses the line over the top of the goal post. Decision on the scoreboard.”

Dwayne Russell said: “This will send them crazy; this will send the fans wild, here.”

Ricciuto added: “How can you turn that over with that (evidence)? … That’s a little bit crazy, though, isn’t it? You’ve got to prove that that’s a point.”

Hinkley replied: “Honestly, I’ve got no explanation for you for that, and I don’t believe that’s a turnover decision that they should go with.

“(It has to be) definitive … I’d like to ring ‘Swanny’ (AFL EGM Greg Swann) and say ‘mate, what do you think that is?’”

And Swann, as well as AFL chief executive Andrew Dillon, happened to be in attendance at Adelaide Oval – and as you would have hoped, the cameras panned to them.

Once the crowd caught wind that they were on the big screen, boos unsurprisingly rained down.

“And the crowd (are) giving them the reception they expected!” Russell laughed.

Hinkley added: “Great decision by our camera people to show them.”

Russell wisely added as an intriguing part of the discussion: “And how the goal umpires, now, with their confidence if those are going to be reviewed and overturned off the evidence we just saw.”