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What about something similar to the hotspot technology like they use in cricket when they're trying to figure out whether batsmen are caught behind or didn't knick the ball at all.
I'm no expert so without going into the finer mechanics of it, the positioning of the cameras would still be the issue. Cricket is all set up so that you can place the cameras exactly where the batsmen are going to play the ball because there is only a small area and a set angle of attack of the ball from the other end. Basically two infra-red cameras and you've got it covered.
Footy would need a multitude of angles and much much bigger area covered. It would be very hard to do. I'm sure there is technology that can come down the pipeline to work it out, but I doubt the basic setup used for cricket would work.
EDIT: Just did a quick search. 2 cameras each end in Cricket (4 total) at around $10,000 a day to operate . Given the amount you'd need for it to work in AFL, even if it could ... it ain't going to happen.