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Chris Mayne was adamant that he touched it, Nathan Buckley wasn't sure and Ross Lyon didn't care one way or the other. The AFL's score review system will be put under the microscope after a Michael Walters goal, touched off the boot. It was allowed to stand in Fremantle's thrilling four-point win over Collingwood at the MCG. Walters' brilliant snap in traffic levelled the scores and was the second of four unanswered goals in the pivotal third quarter of Saturday's clash. Players from both sides set up for a kick in, believing a behind would be declared after a video review showed fingers on Mayne's left hand bent back by the ball as he went to spoil the kick. But the review appeared to concentrate on Steele Sidebottom's desperate lunge on the goal line that clearly occurred behind the line. "There didn't seem to be a thorough review of it, so the umpires were either really clear that it wasn't touched or it wasn't looked at externally," Buckley told reporters after the match. "I'm not sure why it wasn't looked at closer. "It's probably a bit topical right now, isn't it? "We didn't deserve to win so you guys can have a look at the minutiae for me. "I'll leave you to sort that out - we didn't deserve to win today." A week since Walters hit the post after the siren to hand the Dockers a win over Brisbane, he was the hero again, kicking the winning goal with 27 seconds left. Fremantle improve to a 6-5 record with the result to snap the Magpies' seven-game winning run. Lyon was thrilled with the effort by his players and was reluctant to buy into the score review controversy. "In the space I sit in, you get the rub of the green and you don't get the rub of the green," Lyon said. "I haven't reviewed it. "I don't know ... when I was a kid, my dad said that the umpire's call is final. "So I think that's in the vault. It's never going to be changed - that's what I know."
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