If you frequent Reddit and the AFL sub he ducked his head three times!
I implore people to not waste their time there. It's about as anti tiger as the umpires were a fortnight ago.
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Umpire farce - Getting worse by the minute!
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I implore people to not waste their time there. It's about as anti tiger as the umpires were a fortnight ago.
As much as adding more rules is not what we want, especially subjective rules, I think it's time to introduce the "Adding Mayo". Too many players are adding mayo to everything in the hope of drawing a free kick or a 50m penalty.
Yeah.
If McIntosh did that, the decision would have been reversed and the commentators would go on and on about how ill disciplined and arrogant the Tigers are ...... then the tribunal would make an example of McIntosh to stamp out this sudden overblown blight on the game.......
FFS the play had stopped, the umpire was watching the two players jostle and was close enough to dance old school with them.
Why nothing to see here?
Disappointingly we were so rubbish there it was impossible to even get a little bit riled up by the umps.
Umpires just felt that if Bakes was 6 inches taller, it was a fair tackle. Its his fault for being a short-arse.
Haha deliberate out of bounds free paid to the Handbaggers for a deliberate spoil out of bounds. My god they get looked after.
Geelong just don't give away free kicks, minutes to go in the game on the wing, man on the mark encroached from behind, never moved 5 Mt away or stopped. No mention of anything by the umps or comms. Geelong all night a rule to their own.
A draw was nice though.
A draw was nice though.
I did laugh hearing pricky complain about the diverfields play on calls by the umpires. Not complaining about the umpires themselves he stressed but the interpretations. I’d say he’s a sore loser, but since they didn’t lose, I’ll say he’s just a *smile*
Salty's post-game pressers:
After a win: Statesman-like, measured.
After a loss/draw: Makes excuses, whinges, never gives credit to the victor and hardly even addresses them. In a word, a b!tch
I thought the protected area 50 was dead and buried for reasons known only to the AFL, made an inexplicable comeback last night.
Its ok, andrew dillon is going to reform the game,
Starting with mates draft night, where he hopes to contrive some personality
Into the modern private school football drone
No doubt it will be sponsored by sportsbet with mates
Yay
I didn't watch the whole game last night but one thing I did notice was that the Essendon players were continually standing a metre or two over the mark when Port took a mark in the forward line and then waited for the umpire to bring them back. Sometimes the umpires didn't
I assume it is deliberate
I assume it is deliberate
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Brad scott knows precisely how the umps will respond.
Cause Theyre created in his image
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Did he do the old
'Far be it for me to criticise the umpires, thats not in my job description. Ill never criticise them, we own our losses and dont seek to blame external influences. The umpires were terrible and cost us the game. I'll leave it up to others, smarter people than me, to judge the umpiring. We just focus on what we can control'
Another mind boggling farce is that the umps seems to be giving players longer and longer to get rid of the ball when tackled. I understand the need to get rid of sling tackles, but surely part of that strategy would include not giving players a long time, longer than I've ever seen, to get rid of it and actually invite the sling tackle? Or are the AFL just cynically using the sling tackle crackdown as a way to minimise stoppages and get more Dusty moments?
Either way, they stink.
Either way, they stink.
What has also happened is that a player very rarely gets penalised now when the ball is knocked out in the tackle and what we see is that interpretation seems to be superceding prior opportunity.
It’s annoying because the player has still been tackled even if the ball has been knocked out of their hands, so if they had prior opportunity it should be a free.
If they had a history of calculated proactivity,
Youde think the AFL had sat their best minds around a big boardroom table
And workshopped facilitating a rugby union style rolling maul,
The kind David Pocock thrived in, where he kept driving his huge thighs, with 3 blokes hanging off him, for 15 metres, then hed either off load it, or assume a protective fortress over the grounded ball
But its just happened quite in spite of them; a reactive state of organic incompetance.
They will layer a new *smile* rule over the top, and make a weirder, more complex, uncontrolled abomination.
Itll be something like a 10 step in a tackle rule, and the umps will adjudicate it from 2 steps to 22 steps
