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Umpire farce - Getting worse by the minute!

Rocklea Tiger said:
I for one hate the presumption that umpires know what the player was thinking in order to pay deliberately out of bounds. It's the height of pontification.

Fact, they don't know, just as the player rolls the ball goalward and it ends up out of bounds, players roll the ball boundary wise but don't always control the oval ball - Cotchin for example yesterday. It was execution error not deliberate.
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Posted this weeks ago and the trend has been building. Deliberate (carefully weighed or considered, studied, intentional, CHARACTERISED BY DELIBERATION) presumes a certain knowledge of intent. Now the umpires don't know FOR CERTAIN the intent of half of the Deliberate Out Of Bounds calls they are making, they simply couldn't because there was no real evidence, just a presumption on their behalf. So what some will say, but allowing, even practicing this thinking becomes a very dangerous thought process for umpires to develop as it will affect other facets of their judgement over time. Make no mistake, this is a thin edge of the wedge right now for some of the worst decisions we will see in the future.

We have the least pragmatic person running umpiring right now because he is a yes man. I hate where this great game is going, and don't be too easily fooled by Scott's comments (I don't blame the umpires - he has to say that - that is just code).
 
Geez there were some shockers in the Eagles v Cats game last night. The deliberate out of bounds rule has completely lost the plot.
 
wasn't one of the umpires last night one that umpired the Carlton - rfc game a couple of weeks back (which was the singular most frustrating game I have ever watched with some of their decisions and referring everything to the video).

The umpires are becoming a problem but nothing will be done about it till it effects a finals game and all hell breaks loose.
 
Looks like the Subi crowd have set the agenda for "Rule of the Week" for this week. Deliberate OOB, it is!

I hope HArdwick tells them to keep the ball away from the boundary line tomorrow. We could set a new world record here otherwise.
 
Did you know that the rules for Chess, the world's oldest game, haven't changed since the late 1400s.

Chess is still very popular in the world, with a World Championship, and is growing strongly amongst the young and amongst young women.

Shows, you don't have to change the rules to maintain the popularity of a game.
 
Phantom said:
Did you know that the rules for Chess, the world's oldest game, haven't changed since the late 1400s.

Chess is still very popular in the world, with a World Championship, and is growing strongly amongst the young and amongst young women.

Shows, you don't have to change the rules to maintain the popularity of a game.
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I don't know of any other other sporting codes in the world that change the rules of game like the AFL do every year, it really is farcical.
 
Pretty sure the Ancient Egyptians had some board games to pass the time, but I guess you mean surviving in the mainstream.
 
Phantom said:
Did you know that the rules for Chess, the world's oldest game, haven't changed since the late 1400s.

Chess is still very popular in the world, with a World Championship, and is growing strongly amongst the young and amongst young women.

Shows, you don't have to change the rules to maintain the popularity of a game.
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Sorry Phantom. Chess is nowhere near the oldest game. Backgammon predates by a few thousand years of years, checkers by nearly 2000 years
 
And don't forget Ludo.

And Paper, Scissors, rock, as well. Of course, with that one I should use the ancient name, Rosetta Stone, sharp rock, flat rock.
 
Just saw on the news that blubbering Geisch in typical angry defiance stance stating there should have been more out of bounds free kicks paid. Also saying he is not going to call Scott to discuss his comments... blah blah blah.

Just like that hands in the back, opps fingernail touch someone in the back and its a free kick farce, you can see they are going to dig their heels in to make an dictatorship defiance stand to the determent of the game.

I would love to see all supporters of ALL Clubs chant at every game the ol' BULL#@&T for 1 minutes at every decision with this stupid stance and continue until they reverse this interpretation. Let it be heard over the broadcast until the AFL get embarassed. Also like an idea what one person said. ALL supporters boycott a round as see how the AFL feel.
 
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