Not cost us a game?
WTF has that got to do with anything???
The decision was glaringly wrong - pathetically so - partly the fault of too literal an interpretation from a fool but mostly the fault of an interferring and totally inept AFL rules committee who wouldn't know how to write a simple, non derivative rules if their lives depended on it.
It doesn't matter if the free leads to anything or not, wrong is wrong and it's happening far too often.
Hang on.............was the decision wrong or the rule wrong? Your post seems to be a bit confused.......