Umpire farce - Getting worse by the minute!

[Ridley]

While we're on the subject of rules n bloody umpires can some one please please please teach the shed how to tackle or hold players who have gone to ground without falling into the middle of the players back.

Edwards played well yesterday, apart from his tackling. It was horrible. Gave away 8, yes 8, free kicks. He looks to particularly have no idea when the ball is on the ground. Just jumps into blokes' backs and gives away blatant free kicks. Not good enough for a bloke of his experience with well over 100 games. Needs to do a lot better in that area.

 

[LeeToRainesToRoach]

Dan just lay on his back laughing at the umpire. Surprised he didn't give away 50 seeing how sensitive they are.

I thought the players were really disciplined in the face of the umpiring onslaught. More disciplined than me, anyway.

 

[Tommo37]

With the umpiring I think all they need to do instead of over officiating is to just show ' COMMON SENSE ' when applying their decisions, they are just as confused as we are because they get the ' rule of the week ' pumped into them that they are concentrating on this and forgetting about the other rules in the game.

 

[bowden4president]

With the umpiring I think all they need to do instead of over officiating is to just show ' COMMON SENSE ' when applying their decisions, they are just as confused as we are because they get the ' rule of the week ' pumped into them that they are concentrating on this and forgetting about the other rules in the game.

yep! Eg. a hand in the back(not push) which has no impact on the contest what so ever should not be a free. just let it go!!

 

[Sintiger]

Edwards played well yesterday, apart from his tackling. It was horrible. Gave away 8, yes 8, free kicks. He looks to particularly have no idea when the ball is on the ground. Just jumps into blokes' backs and gives away blatant free kicks. Not good enough for a bloke of his experience with well over 100 games. Needs to do a lot better in that area.

Given away only 5 frees in 6 games this season before yesterday.

Aberration

 

[tigersnake]

I thought the players were really disciplined in the face of the umpiring onslaught. More disciplined than me, anyway.

and me.

 

[tigersnake]

Edwards played well yesterday, apart from his tackling. It was horrible. Gave away 8, yes 8, free kicks. He looks to particularly have no idea when the ball is on the ground. Just jumps into blokes' backs and gives away blatant free kicks. Not good enough for a bloke of his experience with well over 100 games. Needs to do a lot better in that area.

the umpiring in regard to Edwards was very strange indeed. Quite a few twilight zone moments. You don't often see him phased but he looked fair dinkum perplexed at times after a blatant free to him was overlooked and then a non-free or barely there one was paid against in the same passage of play. Happened 3 or 4 times.

 

[TigerMoz]

From the fingernails touching someones back being a free kick and that puppet Giesch carrying on about degrees of this and that. ITS ALL BULLDUST. In some way I pity the umpires as they are the messengers in this.

Don't pity them too much. They get drawn in by home crowds and their only consistency is in having selective eyesight, particularly in tight situations or when Richmond is playing. It's like the blind leading the blind these days and we should all applaud Jake King for not decking one of them yet.

 

[Brodders17]

Given away only 5 frees in 6 games this season before yesterday.

Aberration

probably 4 of those frees have been for sitting on someones back.

 

[billyb#40]

Edwards played well yesterday, apart from his tackling. It was horrible. Gave away 8, yes 8, free kicks. He looks to particularly have no idea when the ball is on the ground. Just jumps into blokes' backs and gives away blatant free kicks. Not good enough for a bloke of his experience with well over 100 games. Needs to do a lot better in that area.

8/21 is worse than Mark Williams 13/42 playing for Collingwood vs Carlton in 1983
13 frees against, someone should ask our development coach about that.

 

[Rosy]

Remove the flouros, remove the mics, remove the choreography and the sense of theatre. The umpires are becoming bigger than the game. They shouldn't be chatting to players like best mates and giving them advise. Inject them all with a course of "spirit of the game". Tell them to stop pedantically looking for little things that might technically be in the laws but don't really affect the game. Quit changing the rules so nobody knows what applies from week to week. It seems umpires are flushed with a sense of responsibility and like to exert their new found authority a tad too much.

 

[TigerMasochist]

Inject them all with a course of "spirit of the game". Tell them to stop pedantically looking for little things that might technically be in the laws but don't really affect the game.

That's what everyone involved in playing the game wants.
Problem is that K.B. n Geisch insist that the game is umpired to the absolute letter of the law, rule three subsection twenty two paragraph six, for further reference refer chapter nine K.B. n Geisch are flogs.

 

[Tigers of Old]

There shouldn't be a rules committee. Period.

Whenever there is a committee, they need to do something to justify its existence therefore we see changes for the sake of changes....not only the marking/hands-in-the-back rule but also, because of Gary Rohan's isolated incident, we have 100 years of having no real issue with people diving in and showing bravery and desperation now being punished.
Knee-jerk reaction personified caused by a committee feeling the need to do something.

Finally, I love my soccer (and various other sports) but whenever some people criticise soccer and how "Aussie Rules is the best game in the world"...if this is true, why do we change the rules so often and need a rules committee to facilitate this?

Leave the game alone and let it evolve itself.

Sick of sub rules, coloured vests, and soon limiting interchange rotations...its becoming a joke if it isn't aleady.

Great post Livers.

Agree with everything especially Nanna Bartlett's kneejerk reaction to the Rohan incident.
The slide rule has change the game completely.

As for the push farce? :frustration

However I noticed there was plenty of pushouts this week that weren't paid like the weekend before. No wonder the players (and umpires) are confused.

BTW was staggered by some of the umpiring decisions again on the weekend v Port.
After 30 years of watching footy, I'm sure battling to understand our games rules interpretations too.

 

[tigertim]

yep! Eg. a hand in the back(not push) which has no impact on the contest what so ever should not be a free. just let it go!!

The other one I hate is touching the shoulder is a "high" tackle. It should be the head, not the shoulder.

 

[smasha]

Will be very interesting this week.

Dees playing soft football,Tigers should be first to the ball and earn free kicks more but we shall see what the umpires think. :hihi

 

[smasha]

Yep, right in front of us, we gave ot to him !!!!

I saw it clean as day with my dodgy eyes.

Academy award winner.

 

[CarnTheTiges]

Remove the flouros, remove the mics, remove the choreography and the sense of theatre. The umpires are becoming bigger than the game. They shouldn't be chatting to players like best mates and giving them advise. Inject them all with a course of "spirit of the game". Tell them to stop pedantically looking for little things that might technically be in the laws but don't really affect the game. Quit changing the rules so nobody knows what applies from week to week. It seems umpires are flushed with a sense of responsibility and like to exert their new found authority a tad too much.

Amen! A good umpire is one you don't notice. The last umpire who knew anything about 'the spirit of the game' was Peter Carey.

 

[Legends of 2017]

Someone mentioned common sense being needed by the umpires. Won't happen. I also noticed quite a few times over the last few weeks, as a player is walking in to have a shot at goal, the umpire closest to him blows his whistle just as he is about to kick the ball. Very off putting for the player and for the conspiracy theorists out there, could be considered borderline cheating.

 

[chislop]

That and the "15 seconds left, 15 seconds" AAaaaarrrrrggghhh!!

 

[CarnTheTiges]

Someone mentioned common sense being needed by the umpires. Won't happen. I also noticed quite a few times over the last few weeks, as a player is walking in to have a shot at goal, the umpire closest to him blows his whistle just as he is about to kick the ball. Very off putting for the player and for the conspiracy theorists out there, could be considered borderline cheating.

They don't seem to have any sense for the game anymore. A lot of this has got to be down to Gieschen continually refusing to admit that they ever make a mistake. They don't seem to know how to deal with the players and it looks like the players just have complete and utter contempt for them.