Pickett has played all his games since 2020 bar GF
So for 2017-19 it’s all about Bolton and Nank, and since then Pickett, Bolton and Nank?
Have you researched your last sentence?
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Umpire farce - Getting worse by the minute!
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So for 2017-19 it’s all about Bolton and Nank, and since then Pickett, Bolton and Nank?
Have you researched your last sentence?
8 extra possessions - that's eseentially like an extra quality mid playing for a qtr
It's not the first time we've seen this movie
An extra quality mid who you cant tackle and gets to send half their kicks inside 50
I am not going to get into the arguments about what is right and wrong about the individual decisions. We have been down that road and inevitably you can find a reason to say 95% of all free kicks are correct and the AFL is very good at that.
That to me isn't the issue and when I have commented about umpires months ago when TBR was part of that discussion my argument was always based on one prime element that every supporter wants and that is consistency.
I am not talking about consistency from season to season because that won't happen, even consistency within a season seems a stretch these days.
The very least we can ask for is consistency in a game. That if an umpiring group is making decisions a certain way at the start they stick to it for the whole game. If you aren't going to pay lying on the ball with the fake punching then don't pay it at all, if you are not going to pay getting tackled when leading with the head as high contact then don't pay it for the whole game ...etc etc.
This is where we fail so often now. I posted after the game yesterday, it was like a new set of umpires came out
That to me isn't the issue and when I have commented about umpires months ago when TBR was part of that discussion my argument was always based on one prime element that every supporter wants and that is consistency.
I am not talking about consistency from season to season because that won't happen, even consistency within a season seems a stretch these days.
The very least we can ask for is consistency in a game. That if an umpiring group is making decisions a certain way at the start they stick to it for the whole game. If you aren't going to pay lying on the ball with the fake punching then don't pay it at all, if you are not going to pay getting tackled when leading with the head as high contact then don't pay it for the whole game ...etc etc.
This is where we fail so often now. I posted after the game yesterday, it was like a new set of umpires came out
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Look here. You can see we have players that massively give away a lot of frees.
Sort by frees against and compare to frees for and find the Richmond players. And yes Pickett has been suspended and nank injured and it evens up. Martin and flappers and baker also way behind.
Martin does it taking the game on and getting HTBs against. Flappers does it being flappers. Baker methinks is stiff.
Without seeing the stats I’d reckon Marion is doing better this year but his game has also lost an edge.
That's fine - I still feel like we get screwed. But I also know I have a massive case of confirmation bias.
We do have players that give away more frees than average in the way the played.
The ARC is still the mother of them for me. The rules are clear that if it isn't clear it stays with the on-field decision. And somehow that was ruled as clearly going over the post in a second. And then Dimma got taken on a tour and then everything was fine. Maybe he got offered the Gold Coast job on double the shekkels if he stayed mum
I'm not singling you out, but the above reveals a very real problem.
You say that Broad prevented Pickett from taking him around the neck.
But the rule does not say you have to take a player around the neck, what the rule actually says is:
Pickett did make high contact, it should have been a high contact free to Broad.
DS
So if this the way it has been for decades - see earlier posts - why isn’t the Essington player pinged for a 50?
Possible excuses:
Unsighted
Common sense
Didn’t have actual possession according to the intent of the law
Didn’t have actual possession according to the umpire’s determination
Real reasons:
We don’t know what we are doing
The rules only apply sometimes, and according to our discretion
We have too many rules to adjudicate we can’t get them all right
We all make mistakes. Besides, no-one we answer to cares. They will always have our back.
Been the rule for a shitload of years. If you've got the ball when a free kick is paid you must return it on the full directly to the receiver of the free.
Cost the Cotchinator a fifty in a final when he gave the ball to Bash when in actual fact the free was going to Arseclenchfield.
My point on this farce is that Hops barely touched the ball for 1 second. If he held it and stood up long enough not giving it to the oppo or then threw it away, then it is a 50m. But, he barely touched it for 1 second as he just heard it was a free against on the spur of the moment.
How long he had the ball for is totally irrelevant. The point is that he had the ball in hand and chose to simply let the ball go instead of returning it properly to the recipient of the free. Maggot was watching and there was no surrounding crowd of bodies bustling or bumping around so it was a blatant 50.
Wouldn't surprise me if we topped the ladder for petulant brain fart 50's over the last half dozen years, we're mighty damn good at killing our own momentum while giving oppo sides a boost.
This rule is relevant for 5 year olds to learn their manners.
