Amazed the AFL never stepped in and suspended all those Colonwood players for their outrageous, threatening intimidation of the poor mouldy green. Guessing Gilligan was way to far into his S.A. Chardys to have noticed.
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Umpire farce - Getting worse by the minute!
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Don't see why Collingwood players would want an ump to f off given the treatment they get.
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Our *smile* & 50m penalty differentials are way beyond an anomaly over the past few years. Disgraceful.
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Just watching the Blues v Saints game. The umpiring is so diabolically skewed to favour Carlscum - it’s not funny. Now I’m no fan of the Saints, but they are being robbed. This AFL is turning to a crock of $hit, because the umpire discretion is such a big part of the game. Just my $0.05 worth.
Could play that same video every week for the last 7 years. Worst throwing club in league. Get away with it. Good to see it called out. What will the bikie boss say?
Noticed Cripps get pinged a couple of times today, it was great. He didn’t like it.
Did the refuter have a comment on this? Has he ticked them off as ok?
Great to see Cripps finally getting called for it majority of his handballs are throws
Absolutely damming.
An indictment on the AFL who purposely have been turning a blind eye to it.
Yep, exactly what I expect.
Gross incompetence from the umps and we've all seen it for years. The definition of a handball has not changed in decades but the umps can't see a throw. Now we have 4 of them and they are as incompetent as ever.
If they had cracked down on this years ago, and actually enforced the rules as written, we wouldn't have this problem.
If I want to watch people chucking in Australian Rules football then I would watch ancient VFA games, but it has never been a legal disposal in our game and needs to be called out and penalised.
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The blokes on the show were very held back with what was happening.
It was as if Beveridge would punch them out
I'm surprised Kingy was so scared to call it out.
Treloar always throws the ball.
Libba & McCrae no better.
Cripps chucks the ball 5 times a game.
The umpires must stop it.
I fken hate it
Sad and pathetic thing about the throwing situation is that even when they highlight the blatant cheating, it's done as a joke. Match commentators aren't brave enough to call out what everyone can see during games.
Simple fix to the problem would be for the AFL to cancel the handball rule and just let everyone throw the ball, make the job a little bit easier for the four blind mice ( yeah I know it's supposed to be three, but we've got female umpires now n some idiot musta let them breed ).
Guaranteed fix to the problem, Gilligan will drill down on the umpires outraged over the issue and the umpires will rule of the week the Tigers to death tonight.
Simple fix to the problem would be for the AFL to cancel the handball rule and just let everyone throw the ball, make the job a little bit easier for the four blind mice ( yeah I know it's supposed to be three, but we've got female umpires now n some idiot musta let them breed ).
Guaranteed fix to the problem, Gilligan will drill down on the umpires outraged over the issue and the umpires will rule of the week the Tigers to death tonight.
Yes good to see it called out. I agree Footscray are probably the worst, but its rife throughout the comp. Interesting Kings concluding comments suggesting Montanga could cop some heat for it.
Agree with your first paragraph but certainly not the rest. We might as well start calling the game Grid Iron or Rugby if we allow throws. Handballing makes the game unique. The umps just need to start enforcing the rules properly.
I agree with you, but I can also see TM’s point. They haven’t policed throwing properly for years. Why would they start doing it now? The AFL through their media mouthpieces will start to float this, they’ll do it under the guise of making things easier for the poor beleaguered umpires.
Yep it's amazing the difference in adjudication by umpires for certain clubs. The Bulldogs and Pies definitely get preferential treatment to other clubs. It's disgraceful. We get pinged by the umpires for everything we do and the commentators call out anything we do. Yet the commentators say nothing against Collingwood or the Bulldogs. Joey the first to break stride. Their throwing techniques give them a clear contested ball advantage which is just not right. If the AFL continues to ignore this situation it proves in my mind that they are complicent in the cheating.
Bobble head and kingy Shat the bed when Montanga showed highlights.
"Can't be seen stepping on Footscary's toes'
Used to be called the Crow throw when Adelaide were first introduced to the competition. Slo mo cameras proved that the umpires couldn't adjudicate properly between a quick hand pass and a cheeky little throw, now things have now deteriorated so badly that most players regularly throw the ball and it's only the most blatantly obvious ones that sometimes get called.
As with so many things in regard to the way modern footy is played and worse, adjudicated it's now simply an irrelevant and pointless rule. Simplest thing is to get rid of it and make it easier on umpires, players, coaches and fans. Make it easier for all to understand and accept. This obviously won't happen and the AFLHQ in all it's wisdom and integrity will double down on the enforcement strategy for a week or three with Richmond being the chief recipient of the extra attention, then it will slowly fade into the grey miasma of cluttered obscurity once again., just as HQ prefers things to be.
As with so many things in regard to the way modern footy is played and worse, adjudicated it's now simply an irrelevant and pointless rule. Simplest thing is to get rid of it and make it easier on umpires, players, coaches and fans. Make it easier for all to understand and accept. This obviously won't happen and the AFLHQ in all it's wisdom and integrity will double down on the enforcement strategy for a week or three with Richmond being the chief recipient of the extra attention, then it will slowly fade into the grey miasma of cluttered obscurity once again., just as HQ prefers things to be.
When the crows first did it, there were only 2 umpires. Then a third one was introduced, with some of the reasonings was one of the umpires looked for behind the play incidents and to be on the opposite side of play, to look out for things like that..Didn’t work out that way. Solution? Introduce a fourth umpire to do that. How’s that working out decision makers?
