Upper lip must have got messed up bad.
No brainer………incompetent umpiring at its worst!!!
I may be melodramatic at times, but you can’t let him umpire again if that is the depth of his understanding of the laws of the game.
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The last time we conceded this many points was… the Saints at the Hangar in round one last year.
The arguments I’ve been reading about the non half-time call, was…
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Umpire called play-on as if the full-back stepped out of the goal square (she didn’t), mean the not touched kick-in rule doesn’t apply.
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The not touched kick-in rule no longer applies because the player on the mark rule was adjusted to 15 metres.
The 2nd point we can’t confirm as there’s no published VFLW Rules online, nor have they ever been supplied to the media - and some VFLW rules in the past differed to the AFLW.
Hmmm. Seems they removed the rule (accidentally?) from the AFL rules in 2019, when they replaced section ‘15.7 FREE KICKS – RELATING TO OUT OF BOUNDS’ and replaced it with ‘17.9.2 Free Kicks - Out of Bounds’
That was before and unrelated to the mark being extended to 15m back from the goal square. It was when they allowed players to play on rather than kick from the square.
Pretty sure I’ve seen it applied regardless in various leagues since 2018, though!
I just watched it and I’m APPALLED. Not why the game was a draw in the grand scheme of things, our 3rd quarter was a call back to the dark days of old, but bloody hell.
If you can get away with climbing a goal post….
Any truth that Truck considering similar strapping for Dev Smith?
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I’ve seen plenty of occassions in AFL games the last 2 years where no free kick was paid for not touched, l can’t recall if they had stepped out of the square when they kicked, but l had just assumed that rule no longer applied.
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I’m going to guess it was not an accidental removal: they didn’t want umps to have to bother with knowing whether the player had left the goal square before kicking.
In doing so, they forgot the ump still needs to determine if the defender had re-commenced play before the goal umpire gave the signal 
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Due to family commitments, I missed the game today. What did I miss?
Legit competiton?
Thanks guys for the tension-packed commentary. Much appreciated.
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(Radford pushed, Heil the beneficiary.)