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Umpire farce - Getting worse by the minute!
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The 50 against Sonsie was there. He was more than 10m behind Ellis when he marked it and dawdled back to man the mark, and clearly came from behind too late.
Not sure which one on Balta?
The 2 puzzling ones for me were (and I think this is the 1 you mean), the non deliberate on the rushed behind. There wasn't a tiger within 20m of him. As far as I understand it, you can only rush through under pressure, not sure a player being 20m away from you can be regarded as "under pressure".
The other deliberate one was a kick to the boundary where there were no Suns players near it. 1 of their players raced after it and tried to touch it and probably touched it a metre or so over the line. It wasn't paid deliberate because the dumpire called it touched!! It can't be called touched when its already out of bounds!! Those 2 IMO were astounding.
Fisher destroyed us.
Didn't call a holding on Bolton, the umpire at the MCG paid it.
Then he didn't pay deliberate on the wing 5 minutes after we were penalised.
Yeah but no one else was on the mark, wasnt he just trying to get there?
Na. Sonsie was barely 5m away and running towards Ellis. Watch a replay. it was a shocker.
Balta was pinged in the first qtr. had no chance to get rid of ball.
Yeh that’s the deliberate (insufficient intent) I’m referring to. Awful decision
Reckon I’ve seen the same thing 20 times this year without it being paid.
Hmm, I thought he was close enough to be able to get on the mark.
But it is an appalling rule, you can't put someone on the mark if the closest payer is behind and not close enough? Absurd.
Also, we can argue about whether Sonsie was close enough, but what a rubbish rule that leaves that much interpretation/vagueness when the penalty is 50m.
DS
Ah yes I remember the Balta one. That was a joke. He actually had a really good defensive win against 2 opponents, caught the ball on the way down, tackled immediately, arm pinged, free kick,
Compare that to twice the GC players, were tackled, at that point raised both hands AND the ball above their heads and then still didn't dispose of it. Play on or ball up.
Consistency
He looked to be about 10m behind Ellis when I was at the ground, he came from a way back and dawdled to get there, but agree with David its a *smile* rule if you aren't allowed to man the mark even if you are the closest player, it wasn't as if Ellis tried to play on before he manned the mark.
Balta clearly should have grabbed the ball and taken 3 steps backwards into the tackler (as 1 Sun did late), then it is a ball up.
Not really about the umps , however just saw a headline about changing another rule , re Nick Daicos , games fooked
Na. Watch a replay. I was at ground too. He was the nearest tiger. The league can get *smile* if they think that's the way football should be played.
I forgot about that one. Staggering it wasn't paid. No one near him and he thumped it through when he could have grabbed it. Dusty was onto it straight away.
So we have a certain goal missed to us.
The Balta one resulted in a goal to them.
The Sonsie 50 was a goal to them.
There's a 3 goal turnaround.
