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Umpire farce - Getting worse by the minute!
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To be honest I'm not sure what the change is so hard to say, but I'm assuming it is to reduce the running load which would be a good thing.
In my opinion Eddie McGuire's model of 8 umpires covering the ground, without goal and boundary umpires, is where they should be aiming to get. Do that and ditch the bounce and it would greatly increase the quality of officials in each game.
Well, hopefully with more umpires on ground and the less territory they need to cover, the more intrusive they can get (like NFL and NRL refs) to witness the ball closer and make better decisions.
AFL won’t be happy until each player has their own assigned umpire. They’re the stars of the show after all.
For me the loss of the goal umpires would be sacrilege. Their sometime flamboyancy was the first thing I really noticed when I first found footy as it made the game somehow different. To me anyhow
Bring back the lab coats and hats too, today's goal umpires have no style, the old ones looked like something out of the stone age, back in the stone age, it was great.
DS
They'd still be there in terms of the signalling and flag waving etc, just there'd be two of them and they would also make decisions in play as well.
Heh heh heh.....conspiracy theory or what. Flogs will now increase to 4 on field, but watch the 'subliminal message' little flash at 0.41 seconds.....heh heh heh
Anything Richmond.
Anything Richmond.
Wasn't this announced a few months ago? Or was I thinking about an announcement of the increase in the price of a pie and chips (with sauce)? 
I really would like to believe that this will be a benefit to the game.
If the reason for a fourth umpire is simply to reduce the amount of running and nothing else why not have an umpires interchange. One umpire swaps to the interchange after a goal. They rotate in turn. But that is not the actual reason for this change.
What football doesn't need is a fourth umpire on the ground. All that is required is for the three already employed to be better at their job.
If the reason for a fourth umpire is simply to reduce the amount of running and nothing else why not have an umpires interchange. One umpire swaps to the interchange after a goal. They rotate in turn. But that is not the actual reason for this change.
What football doesn't need is a fourth umpire on the ground. All that is required is for the three already employed to be better at their job.
Again a change that has not been properly tested and trialled. FMD the AFL are a joke.
I predict in our 1st game of the season there will be at least one case of umpires getting in the way and impeding players, maybe even a collision.
I also predict that there will be a heap of free kicks in the forward lines as there will be an umpire close up to watch the forwards and backs doing their traditional push and shove and scragging while to ball is coming down the ground.
Maybe Lynch will be a beneficiary of this considering he's always blocked and held on to? But then again maybe not....
I predict in our 1st game of the season there will be at least one case of umpires getting in the way and impeding players, maybe even a collision.
I also predict that there will be a heap of free kicks in the forward lines as there will be an umpire close up to watch the forwards and backs doing their traditional push and shove and scragging while to ball is coming down the ground.
Maybe Lynch will be a beneficiary of this considering he's always blocked and held on to? But then again maybe not....
Can't wait until 2053 when we have an umpire allocated to every player on the field.
Guaranteed there'll be teething issues in the opening game of Rd 1. I'd hate to be the team playing in that game!
3 teams on the ground now but one has the power to affect the result over the other 2
How much testing and trialling do they need? They've been working on it for 4 months, and now they have a full range of intra club scratches and practice games to work through it, which must be about 3 or 4 rounds of footy.
