Razor rats been doing it his whole career.
He gets off on the Tiger Armys displeasure, he loves it.
-
IMPORTANT // Please look after your loved ones, yourself and be kind to others. If you are feeling that the world is too hard to handle there is always help - I implore you not to hesitate in contacting one of these wonderful organisations Lifeline and Beyond Blue ... and I'm sure reaching out to our PRE community we will find a way to help. T.
Umpire farce - Getting worse by the minute!
- Thread starter iLoVeNeWmAn
- Start date
He gets off on the Tiger Armys displeasure, he loves it.
See they pulled the old 'unofficial sources have implied...' trick. In this case it was the 'unofficial sources say Coniglio had been arguing with the umps all day'. GWS have returned serve by unofficially scoffing at this.
In our EF travesty it was the 'unofficial sources say there is some secret grassy knoll Joseph Smith Mormon footage showing it was a point'.
FFS
In our EF travesty it was the 'unofficial sources say there is some secret grassy knoll Joseph Smith Mormon footage showing it was a point'.
FFS
Last edited:
Umpire got the original HTB wrong. Was asked why it wasn't a free kick. Doubled down and went for the dissent over-reaction. Kingsley is 100% right. Coniglio is no Joel Selwood. Richardson can GAGF.
Richardson was an uncomfortable balance of an authoritarian trying to play the humanitarian.
It was a shoddy attempt at covering up which is typical AFL ..
So I agree JJT, he can GAGF ..
This will be a hard one for the AFL.
GWS love child vs
Don’t say anything bad about the AFL and they should just admit they got it wrong
www.afl.com.au
GWS love child vs
Don’t say anything bad about the AFL and they should just admit they got it wrong
'Complete rubbish': Giants bristle at Coniglio 'badgering' claims
GWS coach Adam Kingsley says suggestions Stephen Coniglio kept pestering the umpires for free kicks against Carlton is wrong
www.afl.com.au
Ha ha. Adam gonna get a phone call. Well done Mr Kingsley.This will be a hard one for the AFL.
GWS love child vs
Don’t say anything bad about the AFL and they should just admit they got it wrong
'Complete rubbish': Giants bristle at Coniglio 'badgering' claims
GWS coach Adam Kingsley says suggestions Stephen Coniglio kept pestering the umpires for free kicks against Carlton is wrong
As Kingsley said, admit you stuffed up and move on, don’t go making the game harder to adjudicate than it already is.
The AFL is like a compulsive liar, they just keep digging a bigger hole until they can’t see the light and can’t find a way out. Just tell the truth and take the umpires and umpiring off the bloody holy than thou pedestal. A lot more respect will be gained than the school kid forced method they’ve been ratcheting up since Vlad’s days.
The AFL is like a compulsive liar, they just keep digging a bigger hole until they can’t see the light and can’t find a way out. Just tell the truth and take the umpires and umpiring off the bloody holy than thou pedestal. A lot more respect will be gained than the school kid forced method they’ve been ratcheting up since Vlad’s days.
Last edited:
True - you can basically do nothing and never get penalized until we have thought umpires.If only there was some way to avoid these penalties for dissent.
But it's also terrible leadership to sporadically / randomly at an ultra-low frequency punish the identical behavior and then take no accountability for the varying standard. When you have experienced umpires saying that this behavior isn't dissent then maybe we should listen to them too and just say this one was a mistake and coach the umpire to be better.
Otherwise just make a rule that players and umpires can't talk other than to mechanically ask where the mark is / nominate for the ruck etc. because that is basically where it is at if this is the standard.
Never accepted 'but everyone else was doing it' from my kids so I certainly don't from grown men.
I look at cricket, where players work their whole lives for a shot at maybe 2 or 3 spots in the national side if they are lucky, and can go out and cop an awful decision that ends their shot. Yet the game demands they do nothing more than glare and not for too long.
All this cop out stuff about AFL players can't be expected to not question umpires is complete crap. Shut your mouth, don't make any gestures and get on with the game. Literally the easiest thing any AFL player will ever have to do on the field.
Yep, you can play completely passion-less football and not get upset when, for example, an umpire pulls a free out of his rear end and completely changes the game.
We expect players to care about the result, we expect them to play with passion, to then expect they don't get upset when a BS decision like the free goal Carlton got last week happens is just rubbish.
Without passion the game is dead, why bother supporting a team without passion, might as well just go and play a video game.
You could argue that players shouldn't get upset, but with the massive inconsistencies in the adjudication you would need to have a lobotomy not to respond. That free to Carlton last week was a glaring example, how many times have players done exactly the same thing and not been penalised? If the umpires were consistent we wouldn't have these issues. Yes, the AFL is very much to blame with the way they keep changing the rules and coming up with weird interpretations, but the inconsistency must drive everyone crazy.
DS
So the AFL can produce audio of the umpire warning Coniglio that if he complains again he will pay a dissent free kick?
I never made a point that you can feel an emotion and also not take an action. Anyone arguing the opposite is FOS IMO and is effectively saying domestic violence (verbal) is ok if you get angry at your partner.
You completely missed my main point. You are blaming the victim here when the standard was just arbitrarily changed.
I said if the the standard is different just set that expectation.
Last edited:
I find the rules of rugby union very difficult but I really like the relationship between the referee and the players on the field.
As you say players are allowed to question but if they keep going they are warned and then if necessary sanctioned. It is a much better way of dealing with emotions on the field without losing control.
They also put it on the captain to control the players when someone is warned.
It’s just more mature
