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Umpire farce - Getting worse by the minute!
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Friday night game, first game for the round.
Richmond players! Assume the position, this won’t hurt a bit!
THE AFL has warned clubs that it will crack down on players infringing on the standing the mark rule across the final month of the season, issuing a memo to teams on Wednesday regarding the strict enforcement of the existing rule.
The League wrote to clubs following an increase of instances where players had infringed on the mark when told to 'stand' by umpires, particularly when the defending team marked deep inside the 50m arc.
A series of examples was sent to clubs where umpires had been forced to remind players that they needed to go "back to the nine" when a mark was paid to a defending player standing inside the goalsquare.
The rule set to be stringently enforced, which is titled 'Disposal By A Defending Player Deep D50 – Within Nine Metres', states: "Where a defending player is awarded a mark or free kick, the mark will be set at the 9m mark.
Richmond players! Assume the position, this won’t hurt a bit!
THE AFL has warned clubs that it will crack down on players infringing on the standing the mark rule across the final month of the season, issuing a memo to teams on Wednesday regarding the strict enforcement of the existing rule.
The League wrote to clubs following an increase of instances where players had infringed on the mark when told to 'stand' by umpires, particularly when the defending team marked deep inside the 50m arc.
A series of examples was sent to clubs where umpires had been forced to remind players that they needed to go "back to the nine" when a mark was paid to a defending player standing inside the goalsquare.
The rule set to be stringently enforced, which is titled 'Disposal By A Defending Player Deep D50 – Within Nine Metres', states: "Where a defending player is awarded a mark or free kick, the mark will be set at the 9m mark.
So the one on Sunday was let go because it's the rule of this week, not last week.
Hang on, the AFL have previously inferred that 100% of umpires get 100% of their decisions 100% correct 100% of the time. So why the need for a “crack down” when they should be just carrying on in their 100% correct ways?
What a joke this administration is.
Just get rid of all these BS rules so the umpires don’t have to focus on one at a time.
BTW, which rule this week will they go slack on because they’re concentrating on yelling “STAND!” at people?
This must be the only sport in the world with such a dictatorial call by an umpire/referee.
The Stand rule is unfair, the crackdown should be on the player with the ball. The AFL and umpires are letting the player in possession of the ball cheat.
Play on should be called as soon the player moves off his line. It does my head in
its a blight on the game, everyone hates it, please get rid of....
The umpire was standing in the pocket staring straight at it, 5m away, unimpeded view. How can you explain it? Either he thought it wasn't high, and therefore should be sacked as he doesn't know the rules, or he refused to pay another free to us.
Not least the prick that paid the free that was around 5m away with no impeded view. He was standing in the pocket, perfect position and still makes such a poor decision.
I went livid at that one. Take your pick, head high or tackled without the ball. Pay either, or as happened pay neither. Again I remember the ump having an unimpeded view of the incident and refused to pay the free kick.
That was as clear a downfield as you'd get, we'd have had control of the ball around 30m out of our 50 but instead the ball was turned over. Another non decision that was a joke. Was a textbook downfield free that again wasn't paid. They were paying tiggy touchwood crap to the Dees in the 2nd half, and then missed blatant stuff to us.
Lot of our blokes behave like petulant 5 year olds at times. Don't want the maggots to tear you a new one on game day, then learn to play the game by the instructions in the maggots rule book. It's fairly *smile* simple.
C'mon Maso. Nothing petulant from Hopper in this case. Where's the 50 on this one below? Flogs are too subjective on field and have to cut the stupid pedantry especially when realising it costs a team a goal.
So, they are going to enforce the much lauded stand rule this week because for the last few weeks, they have, um, how can we put this . . . not enforced the rule.
They are now warning all the clubs that the practice of ignoring their own rule is now apparently going to stop and they will now enforce their own rule. They have to warn the clubs about nothing in the rules changing because, um, I don't know, because they have been incompetent for the last month or two?
What a farce.
DS
They are now warning all the clubs that the practice of ignoring their own rule is now apparently going to stop and they will now enforce their own rule. They have to warn the clubs about nothing in the rules changing because, um, I don't know, because they have been incompetent for the last month or two?
What a farce.
DS
If that's the way you would like to interperate the ruling of said enforcement of rule.
Poor old maggots got so many different rules and interpretations to manage that they simply can't remember them all without carrying a tablet all game. Obviously when they start to forget an entire rule for a game or three, then HQ has to do a bit of reinforcement mentoring to remind them of the important rules they've been missing. Which will obviously require the maggots to over focus on the rules they've just been mentored about to the detriment of some of the other rules they're also supposed to try n remember on a weekly basis. So in a couple of weeks time there'll be another focus group around the next batch of forgotten rules, resulting in another round of ever decreasing circles of incompetence until hopefully someone ( razor perhaps ) disappears up his own *smile* and brings raptures of mirth and joy to the Richmond faithful.
