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The AFL’s Review System has come under fire after the ARC was used more than 10 times during Thursday night’s clash between Carlton and Adelaide.

Former Port Adelaide coach Ken Hinkley and Adelaide premiership captain Mark Bickley called over-use of the ARC a waste of time.

“It has lost its way already,” Hinkley said of the ARC on SEN.

“Once you open it, you create a big mess. I think we are overdoing it.”

Hinkley said the review system was not being used in the way that new AFL football boss Greg Swann had intended.

“It came in, the last touch rule, to keep the game flowing,” Hinkley said. “Right now, it is holding the game up.”

Hinkley said the umpires and boundary umpires should not be wasting time over confusing incidents.

One moment highlighted on Thursday night was Crows forward Alex Neal-Bullen’s decision to handball the football into Ollie Florent’s leg so that it would ricochet over the boundary line on the full.

The umpires were initially unsure, but after a short delay, the ARC awarded the free kick to Neal-Bullen.

“Just throw it in,” Hinkley said. “Just get the ball back into play.”

Adelaide great Mark Bickley agreed on SEN, saying the ARC should not be reviewing instances of a ball “brushing a bootlace” before it crosses the boundary line.

But Hinkley said he agreed with using the ARC during time-on in the last quarter.