Stung by a scoring blunder in the 2009 AFL grand final, St Kilda’s Stephen Milne backs the introduction of video reviews for the regular season.

There have been mixed reviews so far for the AFL’s pre-season trial of video to adjudicate on contentious goal scoring decisions.

But the Saints small forward is a big advocate of the idea.

Geelong key forward Tom Hawkins was awarded a goal in the second term of the epic 2009 grand final against the Saints, even though the ball clearly ricocheted off the goal post.

The Cats eventually won by 12 points.

“Over the last few years, it (an incorrect scoring decision) has probably wrecked a couple of games … including a grand final a couple of years ago,” Milne said.

“If it doesn’t take longer than 20-30 seconds, why wouldn’t you use it?

“The technology is there and in two games of the NAB Cup, it’s worked already.

“It would be good for the AFL to bring it in straight away.”

The AFL is likely to decide soon to bring in a video review system for this season.

But Milne also would like to see mini-cameras mounted in the goal posts, to help officials rule on whether the ball has been touched before or after it has crossed the line.

Goal-post cameras have not been in use during the pre-season.

“The cameras on the goal posts would probably be better, but you’d still be able to get away with the (normal) vision if you had to,” Milne said.

“Obviously putting the cameras on the goal posts would be a lot better, take that grey area out of it to make sure it’s a goal – especially if I’m kicking it.”