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Umpire farce - Getting worse by the minute!

Harry said:
think it'll impact us a bit. rance, morris, tuck, conca dive on the ball often and will give away frees as a result. the problem with this rule is that the robots will call all incidents where a player goes low for the ball near an opponent, even if there's no hint of dangerous play. they will, as usual, become whistle happy. the umps will cop some abuse from this rule.
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This rule will have a real adverse effect on Hardwicks game style, tough, contested footy, even down to the players we have recruited. As well as the players you mention, throw in KIng, Jackson, Ellis, Flossy, and may God strike me down, even Chimp......

Teamed with this new 'ball up' rule around the ground making the clearance area more predictable, every club will have a player defensive side of the stoppage, with feet planted just waiting to draw contact.
 
Brodders17 said:
like many other rule changes, the intent behind the rule is ok, but the application will likely be too heavy handed. having said that i didnt think the umps did made any wrong calls last night.
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The Davey free in front of goal was a textbook example of the intention of this rule. Rielly (?) dived on the ball and rolled into Daveys shins who was almost stationary. Last year they would have paid in the back against Davey even though he was standing still. Instead he got a free kick as he should when the other player instigated the contact and it was dangerous. If they continue to apply the rule like that I will have no problem with it.
 
yes - hate this new interpretation of the below leg rule

they should have introduced a new rule, that you can't slide in LEG FIRST, a la A Goodes.

I thought the head was sacrosanct, not the tibia and fibula!

I would rather have a broken leg, than a broken brain.

Players will now not go low, but will keep their feet and bend down, leading to headclashes.

This rule will really impact our defenders, it could cost us 2 goals a game, and therefore a finals place again.
 
D85 said:
not a fan of the the slide rule, kneejerk reaction to one or two injuries.
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Totally agree.
Injuries are part of football because it's a contact sport.
Nanna Bartlett wants to ban skateboards for heavens sake.
Get him away from our game!
 
Have a sinking felling we will be on the reverse side of this new rule.


It's only natural that Richmond are the ONLY team to be penalised for the deliberate rushing rule and McGuane was penalised even though he had DEFENDERS on his hammer.
Bloody cheating umpires lol.
I will know the AFL is corrupt if either McBurney or Bannister are named to umpire our game.

Then Sportsbet should open betting on how many 50s we cop before the first quarter ends.

Anyone who thinks umpires don't favour a side,think airplanes lay eggs and the Earth is flat!!!!!!!!
 
At what minute mark of the 1st qtr will the scum receive thier first soft free kick in front of goal.

Who will get the most centre square/stoppage holding on frees: Cotchin or Murphy.
 
ICE said:
yes - hate this new interpretation of the below leg rule

they should have introduced a new rule, that you can't slide in LEG FIRST, a la A Goodes.

I thought the head was sacrosanct, not the tibia and fibula!

I would rather have a broken leg, than a broken brain.

Players will now not go low, but will keep their feet and bend down, leading to headclashes.

This rule will really impact our defenders, it could cost us 2 goals a game, and therefore a finals place again.
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This is exactly what I think also.

Davey was smart by NOT going for the ball and letting Reilly go in hard and first.
This isn't what footy is about.

In fact, it encourages players to rush towards the ball and let someone go in on the ground to get it, knowing they will get a free kick if the legs are touched/hit.

In the case where we have 2 players who go in equally as hard for the ball, we will have headclashes like 2 fighting elks, which will be horrific and worse than any potential broken leg.

This rule was a kneejerk reaction to, really, Gary Rohan's injury...and how many of those have we had in the last 5 seasons?
 
If Reilly had stayed on his feet, gone in low and picked the ball up he might have run head first into Davey and got himself a free.
 
Bartlett wants to wind the clock back and turn the game into what it was in his hey day in the '70's, without any of the rule interpretations that he didn't like. If they're not careful he'll remove the dropping the ball rule. The committee needs to have it's membership carefully reviewed and people who actually understand or have recently been involved in the game need to be appointed to it and Bartlett removed from it entirely. When was the last time he was actually involved in a senior game as either player or coach?
 
Hun suggesting LeCras broke his wing by hesitating and staying upright instead of going in under Mzungu. Propped off the contest n copped Mzungu going through at full force.
 
TigerMasochist said:
Hun suggesting LeCras broke his wing by hesitating and staying upright instead of going in under Mzungu. Propped off the contest n copped Mzungu going through at full force.
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I was always taught if you don't go in hard that's when you get hurt. They've removed the bump, they've removed the sling tackle, they've removed a players focus of attacking the ball as first priority...
I just wish they'd remove Nanna bartlett before this sport is unrecognisable from that played in the 70s.
 
Tigers of Old said:
I was always taught if you don't go in hard that's when you get hurt. They've removed the bump, they've removed the sling tackle, they've removed a players focus of attacking the ball as first priority...
I just wish they'd remove Nanna bartlett before this sport is unrecognisable from that played in the 70s.
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Games going Gaelic so that we can compete with the Irish in a truly international comp.
 
What were the free kick stats in the last quarter last nite? Coz I reckon the McGuane free was our only one...
 
Thought we got the rough end in the last qu, Binman. But overall, I thought the umps were ok and I didn't leave feeling they impacted the result.
 
hopper said:
Thought we got the rough end in the last qu, Binman. But overall, I thought the umps were ok and I didn't leave feeling they impacted the result.
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Yep. Actually Carlton copped a couple of stinkers for those 2 50m penalties and goals.
 
I thought the umpiring last night was once again pathetic.

However for a change we were given the better of some very poor decisions.
 
The St Kilda supporters next to us were going nuts over some of the decisions (and I don't blame them). One guy kept asking me what they said on the radio about each one, so I cheekily said "they said it was okay", which kept him quite for a while. When we see Jake King getting frees we know the umpiring gods are smiling on us.
 
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