Damien Sully, the umpire responsible for the crooked bounce late in last Saturday night's clash between North Melbourne and Collingwood at the MCG, has been dumped for this weekend's Anzac Round.
Sully will not officiate in any of the weekend's eight matches and has only been listed as the emergency umpire for Saturday's Carlton-Adelaide clash at Telstra Dome.
It is the first time this season that Sully has not been listed as one of the 32 officiating umpires for the weekend's eight games.
His omission comes after he produced one of the worst field bounces seen in the AFL in recent memory in the dying minutes of last week's thrilling clash between the Roos and the Magpies.
North had just kicked a goal to hit the front when Sully's bounce in the centre skewed horribly towards the Roos' goals and straight into the arms of Kangas' skipper Adam Simpson.
No Collingwood player as a result had a chance to win the all-important centre clearance and Simpson quickly booted the ball into the Roos' attack where they immediately kicked another goal as Dean Laidley's team went on to win by seven points after having come from 21 points down early in the final term.
Collingwood fans were angry that Sully did not recall the bounce after it so clearly favoured one team over another, believing that cost them victory.
However Sully's omission comes despite the AFL giving his decision not to recall the bounce the all-clear after the game.
AFL media manager Patrick Keane said Sully correctly followed rule 11.3.5 which states: "unless otherwise determined by the controlling body where the field umpire bounces the ball off line the field umpire shall immediately call play on and the football may be contested by any player."
"The instruction to the umpires is they are only retrieve the ball (after a poor bounce) if the ball makes contact with the umpire during the bounce," Keane told Sportal following Saturday night's poor bounce.
"Otherwise they (the umpires) are instructed not to (re-bounce the ball in the event of a poor bounce)."
However AFL umpires' boss Jeff Gieschen, while defending the umpire's decision not to recall the bounce, told Melbourne's Herald Sun newspaper that Sully's bounce was not up to league standard.
"We're really disappointed in that bounce. Everybody's seen it and everybody realises it was a bad bounce," Gieschen said.
"No one's more disappointed than the umpire himself."