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Round 4 - The Other Cheese Sandwich Games
- Thread starter Redford
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Hang on there for a moment please. You’re not implying a criticism of Geelong’s CEO are you TOO?
You watch today and tonight, the slightest shove, the slightest movement in a marking contest will get pulled up. Todays games will get interpreted totally different than last night.
Tom Lynch to have four tiggy touchwood frees against him tonight.
Tom Lynch to have four tiggy touchwood frees against him tonight.
Don't worry how many he gets. It's 100% the ones they don't pay against him.
His arms are always in the push motion and its not allowed in the game.
Lynch doesn't push and he gets paid "Push out' frees against him.
It's a joke
The rules are too grey. Left to interpretation on of an individual. The stand rule has added to this.
You should see the stand rule adjudicated at junior footy. Laughable.
Just on junior footy I have been told the quality of umpires available is at an all time low. You potentially having 13 and 14 year olds umpiring an under 17’s game. Then you have the other spectrum where 60 year olds are umpiring multiple games over the weekend and all they do is stand in the middle of the ground and pick what they can see.
You should see the stand rule adjudicated at junior footy. Laughable.
Just on junior footy I have been told the quality of umpires available is at an all time low. You potentially having 13 and 14 year olds umpiring an under 17’s game. Then you have the other spectrum where 60 year olds are umpiring multiple games over the weekend and all they do is stand in the middle of the ground and pick what they can see.
The thing is, this is a professional sport and professional sports have all the resources to analyse what is going on and respond. If pushing in the back is let go, if crumpling when tackled gets you a free, if ducking the head when about to be tackled gets you a free, if you can grab a player who is pursuing the ball but does not have possession is let go, then, guess what, every professional team will be right on to this and will be pushing the interpretation of the rules as far as they can. In this context, not adjudicating the rules properly is encouraging the pushing and playing for free kicks. I heard a comment last week about a player who feigned a handball, the player on the mark immediately reacted, and the player pointed and asked for a 50m penalty - it was clearly pre-meditated, and if it works it will happen more often.
Plus, when the player is pushing another in the back but doing it out of the umpire's line of sight, then where are the other umpires? We have 3 of them on the ground, there should simply be no line of sight they can't see, otherwise let's just go back to 1 field umpire. Is this not the very reason we have 3 umpires?
Simply not good enough.
DS
Plus, when the player is pushing another in the back but doing it out of the umpire's line of sight, then where are the other umpires? We have 3 of them on the ground, there should simply be no line of sight they can't see, otherwise let's just go back to 1 field umpire. Is this not the very reason we have 3 umpires?
Simply not good enough.
DS
It was great. I've always taken an interest but would never have watched it in preference to a Fri night AFL game. I do hate the Cats and Lions but a close game between 2 contenders would usually get my attention. The stand rule and poor umpiring is ruining the game.
And commentators wonder why they are often booed??!!
The wisdom of the crowd can nail it at times.
To their pay packets maybe.
There's way too much variation in the way the game is interpreted from game to game & umpire to umpire.
What they need to do is strip the game right back to basics. It's too complicated.
I was speaking with a mate who umpires in the Bendigo league and he told me there's a 70 year old still getting a run.
I've said it before on here. There is a limit to how many rules that can be applied proficiently. There's only so many things that the human brain can process at once. More rules is leading to a lower standard of umpiring.
Business as usual for the Pies, additionally a 64 metre penalty for Pendles....
Hmm thought that's what I said
. Doesn't get many frees but gets away with so much illegal action.