Oh welcome to 2025, old friend.
And the commentators back the umps
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Now i remember why i dont watch th footy as much as i used too.
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Not sure I’ve posted in this thread before, but omg that was the worst Ive seen for a long time. That was game killing umpiring.
How are your stats adding up now?
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Hawthorn are a good side but the amount of help they’ve gotten is insane.
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Some of these soft free kicks, man
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Don’t forget the maggots’ golden rule:
*Except for Hawthorn
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They are told to do, in the words of Gil: “Give us the results we need”.
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Hawthorn have perfected the knee collapse. How many of their around the neck frees were on players nearly lying on the ground by the time the tackles stuck?
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That was up there with the recent Geelong and earlier ANZAC Collingwood reamings. Mid-game fuckery at it’s finest.
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Scrimshaw must get suspended.
Something else I thought was interesting was Chol’s shove in the back to Reid when Reid beat him in early in the first.
Would have thought after the memo about don’t push players in the back that the umps could have really reinforced it.
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They could have kept it simple and make the 9 metre zone a pressure situation.
But they love affording umpires wriggle room to change momentum in a game by being able to interpret ‘not under physical pressure’
McGrath was under extreme physical when he handballed it through from two metres, irrespective of slipping over.
No free kick Hawthorn.
Nah that was side/shoulder. It’s what I want our forwards to do.
So I guess the suggestion is prior opportunity trumps being under immediate pressure. Except they never ever interpret it like that…
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It doesn’t say prior opportunity, it says time and space, which he no longer had when he slipped
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It is curious though how it changes to past tense in that sub-clause.
No, it says ‘has had time and space’ i.e. Prior opportunity
Technically a correct decision, but totally against the spirit of the law. McGrath had every intent to keep the ball in play - it’s that intent that caused him to slip over in the first place. Once he had slipped over, he was under extreme pressure, and should have been allowed to handball through.
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Plenty of Opposition fans posting on Twitter said the umpiring was horrendously skewed towards the Hawks