Stop betting on games until it changes. That’ll make them take notice quicker than anything else.
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Umpire farce - Getting worse by the minute!
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Watching the balta and gawn smother..the ump was dismmisive of balta,s skill and plain spiteful..like an angry nun ...meanwhile Jackson was treated with respect and awe like a favored child and allowed his full 30 seconds from 55 metres out...
Here’s a novel idea, pay genuine pushes in the back and stop paying players for falling forward when they’re tackled. Look at players who duck into high tackles as having prior and ping them for holding the ball. I lose count of how often I shout ‘but he ducked into it!’ when I’m watching a game and the umpires goes ‘high contact’. Thank you Joel ducking Selwood!
Our players should all salute when an umpire awards a free against us and when we don’t receive a free.
If the afl are hellbent on making our game a farce, we should assist them.
Even our coaches, off field staff and supporters should join in.
Imagine the sight of 22 players all just standing and saluting each umpire. Then thousands more in the stands doing the same.
If the afl are hellbent on making our game a farce, we should assist them.
Even our coaches, off field staff and supporters should join in.
Imagine the sight of 22 players all just standing and saluting each umpire. Then thousands more in the stands doing the same.
It’ll be called dissent and we won’t get another 50 for the rest of the year. I still think we should make a public apology to the umpires. Take out an ad in the papers and splash it all over social media. That may make people (media, the AFL) tale notice and action. We’ll get fined, but at this stage something has to be done to highlight the problem and the feeling.
The instances of playing for free kicks has become endemic in the game which is making it so frustrating to watch. Last night I actually watched Spargo ducking and trying to get a high tackle in the demons warm up drills before the game! They *smile* train that *smile*. No wonder we don’t get the frees.
An even better idea is pay a free kick and 50 against anyone who stages. Did you see Bowey flop in the last Qtr when Jack touched him in the back? It was embarrassing.
If we did anything like that we’d be the first to be reported the charge brining game into disrepute and suspended for staging
The umpire was wrong, it cost us a goal (possibly) and it cost us momentum. Absolutely atrocious decision. It cannot be play on when a player is lining up for goals. Many many times every game players are given the opportunity to take their shot even when it is obvious they are looking to pass it to a team mate closer, but not this time. One of the worst decisions I have ever seen, and I've seen plenty.
I commented way back about a similar thing happening in AFLW before the men's season started, players running in from the side after a mark/free kick. It needs to attract a 50m penalty as the player who has the ball is supposed to have an opportunity to kick or handball.
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Bad habit creeping into the game where when players are tackled & spun they fling their arms up & fall over.
Umps are falling for it as dangerous tackles.
Umps are falling for it as dangerous tackles.
Yep, just like falling forward in the tackle and ducking under arms to draw the high contact. These are the sort of things the umpires need to be looking at, not mucking about to see if someone flicks a toe when manning the mark or fails to show the proper ‘respect’ when they think a decision is the rough end of the pineapple.
There's so much staging it's unbelievable, yet NOTHING'S done about it. I hate it, it's a blight on our game.Hawkins effort last week was a disgrace & yet HE didn't get sanctioned.
I doubt the Dees flog who flew like a bird last night won't get sanctioned either.
Nah, we’re the only club who stages. Just like Cotchin is the dirtiest player in the game.
They should send a video of Balta kicking a goal from that distance to the umps this week. I don't reckon it is the 1st time it has happened to him either.
