Haha! That is like wanting for honesty from the "no" campaign.
Let's stick to hoping for things that actually have a some chance of happening, like banks putting people before profits.
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Umpire farce - Getting worse by the minute!
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Let's stick to hoping for things that actually have a some chance of happening, like banks putting people before profits.
I notice Chamberlain has started throwing it up at centre bounces without a first fail.
Introduce it by stealth. I don’t care anymore. They’ve become so bad at bouncing the ball, they may as well just throw it.
He’s one of the worst. I think he’s largely responsible for the current crop with their ‘look at me’ style of umpiring.
This stuff needs to be internally available to AFL clubs and AFL umpiring department.
(not the general public or media)
And there needs to be transparency and accountability about kicks paid and NOT paid by particular umpires vs particular clubs to these groups.
With gambling billions looming over the industry the threat of corruption is obvious and massive. There need to be massive negative penalties to individual umpires and umpiring leadership for gambling corruption. This penalty needs to be made public (e.g. lifetime ban from umpiring, financial penalties, demotions of leadership for insufficient investigation / training etc.) and also it needs to be really obvious that results are being monitored statistically to spot any outliers with decisions made consistently for or against teams and or at certain times in games. Being watched changes people's behavior massively.
I doubt (but not 100% convinced) that umpires do this for love or hate of clubs. I would not be surprised if gambling money is involved given how in bed with the gambling industry the AFL is.
Heard him calling players by nicknames in the broadcsat on Sunday. Seriously, can this twerp be any more self-indulgent?
They should be umpiring in masks and without numbers or identifying features. They should be anonymous.
TBR hosts it every week. No wonder he’s got calluses where they normally don’t appear
5pm Mondays in Gil's office.
We all sit around and drink expensive wine and *smile* ourselves laughing at the peasants complaining and asking for fairness.
And yet sometimes they recall it when it's still inside the circle.
Bounce should be removed. It is ridiculous that umpires get a reset.
If stand is to stay, the player with the ball must be brought around directly in line with the player on the mark before being allowed to move to play on.
If stand is to stay, the player with the ball must be brought around directly in line with the player on the mark before being allowed to move to play on.
Major bugbear of mine.
Adjudication of it in game and from game to game, round to round has been so poor this year.
Just get rid of this stupid rule .
Or umpire it correctly, not when it suits or the team playing.
We don’t get that many frees in a game from all the umpires.
Someone needs to question the Close - Cameron handball boundary line thing! Can't wait for the blabbering response from the AwFulL!
With so many in the sports meedjia beholden to Gilligan and AFLHQ nothing will happen. The two extremely contentious umpiring decisions that resulted in goals to Jizza barely rated a fluffy mention in the Hun's half dozen game day articles.
That other Richo bloke in charge of umpiring will probably stick his head out the office door for about 30 seconds on Monday and claim that the umpires have a difficult job and perhaps could have made better decisions regarding both incidents, so we'll do some training around those type of actions, but in the meantime " play on ".
The will change the rule for this and make it retroactive.
Yep. The brazen mentality of these flogs is what sh!ts me the most. Like nothing happened.
