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Umpire farce - Getting worse by the minute!
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SCOTT: ‘GREY’ CLOUDS CLARITY
Ed Bourke
Brad Scott says there’s “too much grey” in the game to analyse every umpiring error as he defended the AFL’s decision not to publicly explain contentious decisions in Essendon’s loss to Geelong.
The Bombers coach on Monday revealed on AFL360 that he had spoken extensively to league umpiring officials who had admitted mistakes were made in Saturday’s clash.
Despite the private admissions, the AFL has declined to post a video explainer of the decisions on its website. Interviews with football department leaders Laura Kane and Josh Mahoney to explain controversial umpiring decisions have become almost weekly, but the league said it would only use the platform for umpiring calls late in games that had an effect on the result.
Scott said he could understand Bombers fans’ frustration over the lack of a public explanation from the AFL but warned that focusing on decisions midway through games was a slippery slope.
“(A video) is probably the simple answer (for agitated fans),” Scott said on Tuesday.
“You can make a bit of a rod for your own back though, in terms of is this going to be a weekly Monday morning explainer of every single decision that people want clarification on? I’ve said before, people generally only want the explanation they agree with, and we do deal with shades of grey in our game. I understand fans’ frustration and I think the concern for the game more broadly is that there are people who have been involved in the game all their lives who didn’t have a clear understanding of how the rules are adjudicated.
“If that’s the case, what hope is the fan who’s sitting up in the bleachers or watching at home on TV got? So the more we can be transparent and explain things, probably the better, without going down the rabbit hole of nitpicking every decision through every game.”
Scott said the Bombers had a “really productive couple of hours” with umpiring bosses, but reiterated he had been more disappointed with his players’ response to the frustrating decisions in the loss.
Why are the umpires an issue this week?
Because they bent over Essendon?
Did they miss the 2020 Qualifying final?
The 2022 Elimination final??
And even single fken week we take the field??
Because they bent over Essendon?
Did they miss the 2020 Qualifying final?
The 2022 Elimination final??
And even single fken week we take the field??
Because Dons are only 2nd on the free kick ladder and they thought the umps needed to get them to the top of the list by piling them with frees to whittle down the 45 point deficit into a win.
The AFL needs to decide whether they honestly start public judging umpires decisions, or just say they wont make any comment.
There are multiple mistakes made every game- no one could deny that, but just commenting on the ones the media makes a story of and not others is wrong.
I doubt they can do it honestly so they should just make no comment.
Have they justified the Banks deliberate decision?
And I reckon Scott is exaggerating on any conversation to deflect heat from his team failing again when they are put under any pressure.
There are multiple mistakes made every game- no one could deny that, but just commenting on the ones the media makes a story of and not others is wrong.
I doubt they can do it honestly so they should just make no comment.
Have they justified the Banks deliberate decision?
And I reckon Scott is exaggerating on any conversation to deflect heat from his team failing again when they are put under any pressure.
Robbo going off his nut at the umpires?
Let me guess, the bumbers got some bad calls against them last weekend?
He's been on it for a while. He actually made the point that Draper had been on the positive end of the ledger in the Adelaide game so he can't whinge.
His line has been the fans have had enough.
They should do public stats developed by an independent 3rd party not part of AFL ecosystem who provide a view based on the AFL's own criteria / standards - and seek what the factors are for the 'grey' interprestations.
Include missed frees, paid frees and %ge correct.
Highlight rules that need fixing due to no discernible clarity of criteria. i.e. "prior opportunity" to be strictly defined.
Will never happen. I was laughing while writing this.
I hear ya. But if you're dominating the comp, and especially if you're us, its politically untenable to protest about unfair treatment from the umps. Thats just the reality. I'll give Robbo a bit of credit, when he saw a recent graph show showing free-kick differential he said, re us, 'how can that be defended?' He was on it for a while.
Defintely.
When you have so many rules open to the interpretation of an individual, increasing their number can only increase the inconsistency. What is abuse to one umpire is water off a ducks back to another. What is insufficient intent to one umpire is OK to another.
And they clearly do not watch all off ball incidents, there are 100's of grabs/holds etc off the ball all game that go unpunished.
Reduce the number of umpires and at least you will get more consistency in interpretation. Is it really that physically demanding for 2 guys?
A transparent organisation would encourage such scrutiny.
I can see why you laughed.
Yeh, Robbo has actually acted like a reasonable, intelligent, impartial footy journo on this matter.
I can only suspect his recent illness had some sort of John Travolta/Phenomenon effect.
2 is probably the right number or 3 at a pinch.
I don’t think it is 100% of grabs and holds off the ball, I think it is 98% and that to me is more frustrating. How do they pick the 2% ? It’s random
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