Even in his downtime, Collingwood legend Scott Pendlebury is thinking about how to improve the game.
After Friday night's thrilling win, Pendlebury took to Instagram to share his thoughts on the state of the ARC (AFL Review Centre) system and general goal umpiring issues.
One Collingwood goal from the game against North Melbourne was ruled out due to insufficient evidence from the camera angles and quality.
Pendlebury's video - which also provided a panoramic view of his backyard - had the Magpies great provide his own NBA-style solution to the problematic ARC.
"I wanted to throw a few ideas out for this ARC goal line technology," Pendlebury said.
"If you didn't know I had a basketball background, but how cool would it be if the ARC was just the goal umpire made a decision, but coaches got a challenge each.
"Within the 30 seconds of getting back to the (centre ball up), the coaches can challenge, so there would be someone on the film or tape that can review it and be like, 'Nah, nah, we have to challenge that'.
"If you get it wrong, you're done, no more challenges for the rest of the game, but if you're right, you keep your challenge.
"That way it puts it back on the teams, not on the umpires, not on some independent thing. If you think something was touched. Players whack your hand up; you can ask for it to be asked, and within that 30-second time frame, you have to challenge.
"If you've got the vision and you can't cut it quick enough or whatever, that's on the team that's on you. It removes the umpires and the ARC and puts it back on clubland."
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Pendlebury also brought up a concept that had been tested in years gone by.
"The other one I reckon would be awesome, couldn't introduce it now, but just make the goal post live," he said.
"So if it hits the goal post and goes back into play, we did this like 15 years ago in pre-season, hits the goal post, comes back into play, play on.
"Hits the goal post and goes in for a goal, it's just a goal. I think it just removes another element that delays the game. We just want the game to stay live as much as we can."
