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Umpire farce - Getting worse by the minute!
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Good report jimbob. We can't win. The well known rumour/hint around the league in that Benny won't be accepted for Gil's job definitely shows there is/has been a cold war between us and them. Surely SHocking is part of it. Makes no sense why we always lose the Free Kick count every game.
Just noticed Dimma told a journo to ask about the free kick diff to the league. Clearly shows it affects us even through the coaches and by Dimma being informal, this problem is really starting to kill us.
I can see the media having another laugh and criticism as they did last season with his Marvel Stadium comment.
I can see the media having another laugh and criticism as they did last season with his Marvel Stadium comment.
No words. That was extraordinary.
How can so many different rules be interpreted so inconsistently one way...!?
How can so many different rules be interpreted so inconsistently one way...!?
For the sake of correctness I think you will find we won the free kick count against the giants 26-18 not the other way around
Tinfoil hat is on, and streaming 5G - hear me out.
The Stand rule was introduced to curb our dominance.
We rely on a pressure=turnover game. When a free kick is paid that negates our ability to win posession back and renders our pressure useless.
We lose the free kick differential every freakin week.
This is a directive from the AFL
The Stand rule was introduced to curb our dominance.
We rely on a pressure=turnover game. When a free kick is paid that negates our ability to win posession back and renders our pressure useless.
We lose the free kick differential every freakin week.
This is a directive from the AFL
Jamison even made mention of it on the radio and he’s Adelaide!
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Who cares about the umpires?
Won’t be long until there’s no supporters left and the game will collapse anyway. The AFL has ruined football.
As far as umpires doing a reasonably impartial job today, you need your eyes checked. Or you barrack for Adelaide
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Free Kick differential since 2017, clearly just really undisciplined for 6 years straight and not putting our heads over the ball....
Honestly it's too consistently lopsided not to be due to some part of our game style but gee whiz are we quick to be bent over particularly on the road.
I'm sure the 50 metre penalties for and against would be a similar story.
He called play on when Cotchin kicked to nakas too short no 15.
But 5 seconds later the Adelaide player chipped a 10m pass that was paid.
The umpiring was badd, but we lost because Parker is a dud, I'm over watching George play like a first gamer.
And our stars are finished
There is one controllable factor that I view as a dilemma.
Other clubs train their players to exploit the boundaries of interpretations of the rules. E.g. they learn exactly what cue the umpire is looking for and train to exploit that (for and against)
We don't do that. My supporting evidence is to look at a number of our players ducking to win free kicks in 2016 who then cut it out of their game in 2017.
So, if that's the case...
One approach could be to train to exploit the rules as well. We could choose not to be bold, not to create the play, and learn how to twist into oncoming traffic in such a way to guarantee a free kick, etc.
The dilemma is this goes against the spirit of the game. And I think we've built up an incredible culture within the club that's based on good character, so I don't want us training to win more free kicks - ever.
Stand our ground on that one.
It's the right thing to do.
But perhaps we can get better at addressing the free kicks against part of the problem. One way to do that would be to get better at teaching the players the technical boundaries of the rules and how opposition players will try to exploit them.
If that's not enough, and if there's too many unavoidable situations in a game created by opposition players going against the spirit of the game but within the technicality of the rules - if that's true, then our only hope is to change the way the rules are written and/or interpreted.
That's hard, and probably only done through media presssure... which was Dimma's approach in tonight's press conference, funny enough.
Hey there. I have not read any post past this one. I am sure you have had some great replies.
This is a very admirable effort at being diplomatic, mature, reasonable and fair - but you know what? Forget it, it’s all BS we are being reemed
I'm just really sorry that Hamish's brother is leaving. He's been great for the game.
Back to topic the referee thing looks like bias.
Hamish's brother resigned when he had to sell clubs. Didn't want to be remembered as that guy. But, who wants to buy a club that is victimised by referees? Or do recently-bought clubs come with referee bias? Who owns WCE?
Back to topic the referee thing looks like bias.
Hamish's brother resigned when he had to sell clubs. Didn't want to be remembered as that guy. But, who wants to buy a club that is victimised by referees? Or do recently-bought clubs come with referee bias? Who owns WCE?
