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Umpire farce - Getting worse by the minute!
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This.
So obvious.
The Goal Umpire is the scapegoat when the responsibility lies with all the umpires and the AFL who train them and tell them how to adjudicate.
Absolute farce and absolutely no accountability.
The AFL boys' club has got to go.
DS
Exactly why the new AFL CEO had to come from outside the organisation (and logically that was our B. Gale) to create meaningful change in every different way - including football operations.
As per usual, AFL appoint from within and then try & cajole Brendon to do the job/work that really matters. Thankfully for Richmond (and himself) he didn’t - our rebuild is more important, especially in comparison to saving the sycophants at AFL house.
I still don’t get why they’ve said the result will stand after admitting the mistake. They have overturned results in the past, why not this one?
Because there were 70 seconds left. There is no way of knowing that the Swans wouldn't have kicked another goal in that time
If the kick was after the siren, different story
Ah that argument makes absolutely no sense at all. Sydney in that remaining 70 seconds did not add another score.
But what has happened is the AFL after the game declared it should have been called a goal and not a point.
Therefore the winners of that game are the Crows and NOT Sydney.
Therefore the AFL should have awarded the game to the Crows once they “officially” declared the incorrect call.
It’s that simple but the abysmally run AFL still allowed the Swans to win a game they did not win!!!!!
That is just crazy and tells me yet again how incompetent and morally bankrupt are the fools controlling this once great game. And that includes the media lackies that just rubber stamp the weekly eye watering mistakes made by the AFL!!!
Goals get reviewed automatically, points don't. 99 times out of 100 umps call for review if there is any tiny doubt. This time he didn't when there was huge doubt, to everyone except him at least.
How do I pull up our arc review thread against Brisbane in the final. I want to show a bloke at work the film from the crowd where the ball thru 3/4 the way up the post
So true. Yet this was one of the reasons they brought the review system in, to remove the obvious howlers. There was no other official in that game who could have said, I think you got that one wrong, and called for the review?
ARC Appeal
You reckon the club should ask for the definitive proof to overturn the umpire? Certainly the angles that were shown on telly were inconclusive. Don't want to be sore losers but you can't continually take it up the clacker either. I reckon we go quietly to the AFL and leak it if they can't...
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I feel for Ben Keays. Denied getting the accolades of what was a great feat, denied income, endorsements. Stiffed big time
Good summary.
If the kick in was so quick as Silly Gilly says doesn’t that mean the system is flawed ? By Gil’s logic If you take the kick in quickly enough there is no chance of review.sensibly the Swans got the ball back into play before there was any chance of a protest from the Crows to the umpires.
Where was the nearest controlling ump? Control being the operative word. It appears they are all care and no responsibility at times.
What a joke, Gil the dill says its human error and happens a lot every game. Da Gil. That's why you have a review system. What a fARCing joke he is.
Good old kermit did his take and mentioned the litany of costly errors of the "reveiw" systems over the years. And he still managed to throw a barb at the tigers by claiming that the ARC probably got the actual decision right in the tigers game.
No but if it was a goal, then a Centre sq bounce and not a kick out. Passage of play would be different as set up is 6 6 6. So can not say that Sydney could not have scored from the resulting centre bounce.
Yeh, Syd would have had to kick a goial to win so would have been attacking. But it's more likely the Crows win if the goal is confirmed.
Be that as it may - as soon as the AFL, after the game, announced it should have been paid a goal - a professionally run league would have declared the Crows the winners of that game.
And by doing so remove any discussion about cheating, incompetence and the stench of a compromised competition.
