Anyone else see this one?
Admittedly we don’t know the proceeding events, but hells bells, surely there is no excuse for this. The assailant is like a rabid crazed animal.
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Anyone else see this one?
Admittedly we don’t know the proceeding events, but hells bells, surely there is no excuse for this. The assailant is like a rabid crazed animal.
Yes I saw the vision. Bloody horrific. The ref sustained a broken jaw and lost 3 or 4 teeth.
Anyone else see this one?
Admittedly we don’t know the proceeding events, but hells bells, surely there is no excuse for this. The assailant is like a rabid crazed animal.
I hope the perpetrator gets 10 years in a hardcore prison. And is made to referee games between inmates
Anyone else see this one?
Admittedly we don’t know the proceeding events, but hells bells, surely there is no excuse for this. The assailant is like a rabid crazed animal.
Apparently the guy wasn't playing because he was suspended for being involved in a brawl at another game. Sounds like an angry man and he's welcome to find out how tough he really is, when he enters the Australian penal system and you dont get the luxury of hitting someone from behind with no recompense.
One positive. The judge refused bail.
Screw you mate, no bail for you. Should be more of it.
Apparently he was already serving a suspension from playing. Hence why he was a spectator at this particular match. Further sanctions from the soccer/football governing body are the least of his worries now.
Anyone else see this one?
Admittedly we don’t know the proceeding events, but hells bells, surely there is no excuse for this. The assailant is like a rabid crazed animal.
Unfortunately this is a reflection of the attitudes we are fostering in society towards umpires.
People keep treating them like sub-humans and this stuff will happen.
More of an outlier, than the norm. The perpetrator already had a history for violence.
Footy umps have been yelled at for over a 100 years. They were better then when footy was a game, than they are now when it’s sports entertainment and about making multi million $ profits.
For me, the good umps are ok (very rare species) while the other cheating, corrupt, inept, egotistic, polished domes and airwaves/product in their hair bastards can GAGF and are fair game. You reap what you sow. Respect is earned its not a right.
We need more Glen James in the game, not keep adding extra duds on the field.
Think you just proved my point.
If you asked umpires from community footy I reckon they would tell you it's far from an outlier. Maybe a bit more extreme in the violence but the abuse, threats, need to be escorted, protected, segregated and generally feeling unsafe is very prevalent.
Well I don’t shy away from the fact that I find cheating and corruption downright intolerable. Whether it’s sanctioned, condoned or otherwise.Think you just proved my point.
If you asked umpires from community footy I reckon they would tell you it's far from an outlier. Maybe a bit more extreme in the violence but the abuse, threats, need to be escorted, protected, segregated and generally feeling unsafe is very prevalent.
Well you may be correct. I don’t condone violence to umpires, refs or officials.
But it’s not abuse when the same dickheads keep cheating or are corrupt under the direction of the afl. It’s direct critiquing their woeful performances.
Most people do, I think the telling thing is you go straight to 'cheating and corruption' instead of accepting umpiring is imperfect, subjective and mistakes happen.
Did you accuse Young of being a match mixer when he kicked the ball to King 15m from goal on Sunday? That's at least as bad as any mistake you will ever see an umpire make.
I know umpires are imperfect and may make mistakes. That I can accept.
It’s the obvious bias, cheating that pisses me off.
I have a quite well balanced view as the chip on each shoulder makes it possible.
A “match mixer”?? I wasn’t impressed, I was pissed off with that and a couple of others as well. The exception being it wasn’t deliberate. It was a massive mistake. But I highly doubt it was deliberate.
I know umpires are imperfect and may make mistakes. That I can accept.
It’s the obvious bias, cheating that pisses me off.
I have a quite well balanced view as the chip on each shoulder makes it possible.
A “match mixer”?? I wasn’t impressed, I was pissed off with that and a couple of others as well. The exception being it wasn’t deliberate. It was a massive mistake. But I highly doubt it was deliberate.
'Fixer', my voice to text doesn't like unusual words.
So players make mistakes, umpires cheat. To me the issues with attitudes towards umpires starts there.
No players make mistakes, so do coaches, so do umpires.'Fixer', my voice to text doesn't like unusual words.
So players make mistakes, umpires cheat. To me the issues with attitudes towards umpires starts there.
But it’s the cheating bastard umpires I have a beef with. Not the useless bastard umpires that are inept, dumb and spoil the game
Umpires have a different job to players.
You often see a howler of a decision and even if you play it back in your mind at the game without the replay you can see that the umpire was unsighted or whatever. That is an error, not great, but you can understand it. Mind you, 4 umpires and they all seem to miss many violations of the rules, seems ridiculous, they clearly need better training or instructions.
It is when you see a player pinged for holding the ball after being given barely 2 seconds to dispose of it, and not 5 seconds later another player gets swung around 720 degrees for about 20 seconds and it is a ball up, that people get upset. If they are going to adjudicate that rule by giving players a lot of time to dispose of the ball, fine, do it with some semblance of consistency.
Plus, pay holding the man, it would solve so many problems. Rule hasn't changed in decades.
While we're at it, the definition of a handball has not changed in 50 years, if it ain't a handball it is a throw and a free kick should be awarded.
DS
You often see a howler of a decision and even if you play it back in your mind at the game without the replay you can see that the umpire was unsighted or whatever. That is an error, not great, but you can understand it. Mind you, 4 umpires and they all seem to miss many violations of the rules, seems ridiculous, they clearly need better training or instructions.
It is when you see a player pinged for holding the ball after being given barely 2 seconds to dispose of it, and not 5 seconds later another player gets swung around 720 degrees for about 20 seconds and it is a ball up, that people get upset. If they are going to adjudicate that rule by giving players a lot of time to dispose of the ball, fine, do it with some semblance of consistency.
Plus, pay holding the man, it would solve so many problems. Rule hasn't changed in decades.
While we're at it, the definition of a handball has not changed in 50 years, if it ain't a handball it is a throw and a free kick should be awarded.
DS
Good luck waiting for the refuter to actually provide any evidence to support some of his claims. He recalls a lot of things in his head. Whether they actually happened is another story.
That's because he has 90% of PRE on ignore, upset about the end of 2 way ignore as now everyone gets to critique what he says. Almost tempted to put him on ignore so I don't have to read it, but I don't put people on ignore, everyone has a right to say what they think.
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