SYDNEY co-captain Brett Kirk says he was uncertain whether his late snap during the dying moments of yesterday's draw with North Melbourne that was touched near the line by Kangaroos defender Michael Firrito was a goal.

"I don't know," said Kirk when asked if he had a feeling whether the shot from 25 metres out that levelled the scores with just 66 seconds on the clock had crossed the line. "It's going to be marked down as a point, so … The goal umpire called it a point, so I'll take it as that."

However, while television replays appeared to show the ball had just gone through, Firrito insisted he was "pretty sure" he had gotten a hand to it in time. "It's hard to tell but I just reckon I got there," he said.

Sydney coach Paul Roos, stationed on the boundary line without a television monitor, had not seen a replay of the incident.

"I spoke to my wife and she thought it was a goal," he said. "She saw it on the telly and the commentators thought it was a goal. But I haven't seen it, and that's just one incident in a game."

While the decision may have cost them two competition points, the Swans accepted the decision without public rancour last night - other than one slightly cutting remark from Roos when asked about his team's missed opportunities in the tense final stages. "There were a few that just missed and one that got touched around about the vicinity of the line," he said.

The close call will inevitably spark calls for the use of four goal umpires or some form of technology to adjudicate on close calls.

However, Roos said he was not in favour of technological aids, claiming that any third umpire-style decision would slow down the game. "I think you could have done it before," he said. "But now with the quick kick-in, with the goal umpire just having to signal, it would slow the game down. The AFL have done everything to quicken the game up. To bring that in would be against everything they have tried to do. I don't know. What you do, put Hawk-Eye on the goal post? Who knows."

Similarly, the second draw in two weeks - after last weekend's Western Bulldogs-Richmond match - will open further debate about the use of extra-time or some other method to break deadlocks. Again, Roos is a traditionalist. "I believe in the draw, it's been around for a long time," he said. "Two points at the end of the season can be like four points anyway. Sometimes a draw is as good as a win. We'll wait to see what happens come round 22. But I'd hate to send the players back out after the siren goes and play an extra whatever minutes. I think that's fair, you get two points, I don't have a problem with the draw. I thought today it was probably a fitting result."

While happy with how his team had hauled itself back in the last quarter, Roos expressed concern with the form of erratic forward Nick Davis, who kicked one goal, missed a couple of easy shots and had just five kicks.

"He's struggling, no doubt," Roos said. "We'll have to look at ways to get him back into form. When we brought him back we knew he hadn't done the things we wanted him to do. It was a bit of a risk, a bit of a gamble, but probably one of the ones that hasn't paid off."

However, ruckman Peter Everitt played 65 minutes for the Swans reserves yesterday, his second match after a knee injury, and is in line for a recall to the senior team for next Sunday's game against the Bulldogs at the SCG.