He should have been sacked when he mistook a train horn for a siren.
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His father should have been de-sacked.
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the quality of umpiring hasn’t kept pace with the increased speed of the game and the AFL have made it more confusing with some significant rule interpretation changes mid season.
it’s a mess.
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They were terrible. Have no idea what holding the ball is. The pedantic theatrics of repeatedly pulling players to exactly behind the mark has nothing to do with officiating and everything to do with being seen to be part of the game.
The best umpiring is the non comment about their performance after a game. They did their job. The focus is on the players and coaches.
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When they were kicking in from full back and the guy was on/over the line, but they didn’t call play on set the tone for the whole game.
Basically no way you can get a free for tackling someone, more likely to give away a free for too high or in the back.
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They were letting WC basically stand there on kick-ins for as long as they wanted
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Yep! And then it happens to yeo and Ryan and they get free kicks.
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The holding free to Ryan in the third as he was lightly touched from behind while persuing the ball would see 472 frees a game paid if applied consistently.
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Felt like the umpires were keeping them in it. The non 50. Encroaching on the mark. Legitimate marks not paid. Dragging the ball in being ignored. VAR being introduced into afl for score review when seconds away from a bounce.
Compounded by conflicting interpretations on either end of the same ruleset.
Really dampens the game when you think a well adjudicated or consistently adjudicated match would have seen a much different outcome. Few games in a row we’ve been hard at it. Must have ■■■■■■ someone off this year. Hopefully just the advantage of seeing the game from the stands and not ground level.
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He’s improving. His non-HTB calls today weren’t as bad as the one when Dempsey mowed down the Port bloke.
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How, in a game of modern football where the game goes for 125 mins and where you make 54 tackles and it’s 3 weeks after the AFL change the HTB rule to give less time to the player with the ball, and the AFL penalises every incidental contact to the head, can you only be awarded 8 free kicks for the entire game.
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That was legit the most apoplectic I’ve ever seen a football crowd. I thought somebody was going to invade the pitch and attack the umpires.
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The only thing missing from that photo is an Eagles player attached to his back. The only time they were off it was during the quarter time breaks.
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The wright non mark compared to the waterman mark is just the standard that is the problem
4 umpires all different levels of interpretation.
If the tackle in the goal square want holding the ball then I’ll give up
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Or any from that Collingwood game
I don’t care if it was him or not, he must carry some responsibility.
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We need to speak up? Or then again, do we?
So that shows he is a model of modern major maggot: he knows what must be done to (in Gil’s words) “give us the results we need”.
Not for the first time this year in our games v bottom 4 teams either.
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Well, part of that answer is the maggots had to work hard in the last quarter in our backline. They doubled the free count in Q4 to get our free kick count up to that 8.
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