State of Umpiring [merged]

[Fluffy Tiger]

The 50 against Sheds in the 2nd was just laughable!  Carlton player marks & goes back 2mtrs, the ump calls ‘stand’ to Sheds.  Carlton player fakes a handball, Sheds lifted his foot off the ground & put it back down again - called for 50mtr penalty!  Sheds didn’t come forward or even backwards, he didn’t even go laterally.  So is that what the stand rule was designed to achieve?     

Absolutely laughable. And it wasn't the only one tonight. I would need to go back though the replay but I'm not sure I want too. I can't think of any game ever that 8 50 metre penalties were given. We blew it but we weren't done any favours by the umpires that's for sure.

[TigerLand]

We gave away EIGHT 50m penalties tonight .

Frees kicks were 20 to 28.

The EIGHT 50m penalties were due to our stupidity and ill-discipline

Nothing to do with the umps.

Not all of them.

The Edwards and Soldo ones were ridiculous.

[Tigeritis™©®]

We gave away EIGHT 50m penalties tonight .

Frees kicks were 20 to 28.

The EIGHT 50m penalties were due to our stupidity and ill-discipline

Nothing to do with the umps.

I think everyone in footy knew what the new standards were going to be but clearly none of our players got the memo.
And let’s not learn from the first one let’s do it seven more times 
How dumb can you get? 

[Diocletian]

Graham shouldn't have played...was not only clearly physically underdone but judging by the stupid frees he gave away all night was also mentally underdone...and they do often go hand in hand...

[mightytiges]

Most of the 50s and frees in general last night were due to us being dumb and ill-disciplined.


Having said that the one that was totally unfair was the 50m paid after the incorrectly called "kicking in danger" free. The Carlton player went to ground and slid into Sheds' legs. That's a free to Sheds every day of the week under the AFL's sliding rule. It was brought in to avoid broken legs. So players need to keep their feet. The ump screwed up yet we get doubly penalised for it  .

When you rewatch the vision, Sheds clearly thought it was his free for having his legs taken out and he calls Graham to hurry up and give him the ball. That's why Graham threw the ball to Sheds. 

In the past, the ump would've spotted the obvious confusion and simply confirmed to everyone what the free paid was and to whom. Only an idiot like SHocking was stupid enough to change this  .

[miastar]

Adam Cerra got a dream run off the umps - at least 3 questionable in the Back frees.  He appears to dive forward when his is tackled.  Don't know how long it will take the umps to wake up

[WilliamPowell]

Adam Cerra got a dream run off the umps - at least 3 questionable in the Back frees.  He appears to dive forward when his is tackled.  Don't know how long it will take the umps to wake up

Probably a decade

Dangerfield has even doing it for years and still gets away with it

[one-eyed]

Hardwick admitted his team conceding eight 50m penalties “hurt” in starting a chain of inside 50s the other way and that it’s something they would address internally.

But Hardwick wasn’t necessarily concerned with disciplinary issues, highlighting how Graham’s infringement for throwing the ball to the wrong player was simply unfortunate.

“I can recall some and not others, so we’ll have to have a look at it and see what it is,” the Richmond coach said.

“Sometimes it’s just unlucky, Jack Graham thinks it’s our free kick and throws it to our guy, it’s the other guy’s free kick. Sometimes those things happen.”

Source: Foxsports

[WilliamPowell]

Watched part of the replay

The double 50 was caused by Jake Aarts 

Graham gave away 1st one for stupid dissent towards the umpire

Then Aarts is running next to the Carlton player, Aarts told 3 times move away. He doesn't 2nd fifty and another soft goal

That's not umpiring that’s just stupidity

[JP Tiger]

‘Milton’ Cox (Coll vs StKilda) had a free go against him in a marking contest, he stands on the mark protesting the umpire’s decision.  50 mtrs?  Nah ….     
The commentators all agreed that the rules have been relaxed since the pre-season ….     

[The Machine]

Adam Cerra got a dream run off the umps - at least 3 questionable in the Back frees.  He appears to dive forward when his is tackled.  Don't know how long it will take the umps to wake up

Spot on and they will not wake up unfortunately

[The Machine]

Let's just face facts- the game is stuffed

[mightytiges]

Amazing what sensible commonsense umpiring looks like. Collingwood player unaware of a free to St Kilda gets the double whistle to call him to stop and tell him it's a free to the other team. It's not hard!

[mightytiges]

Different rules tonight  .

Jack Martin spun around 360 degrees in the tackle before getting the handball off = play on and goal to Carlton.
Mason Wood spun around 360 degrees in the tackle before getting the handball off = holding the ball against St Kilda (fair enough it's the new rule).

Noah Balta puts the ball on the ground rather than giving it back = 50m penalty (fair enough it's the rule).
St Kilda player puts the ball on the ground rather than giving it back = nothing to see here.


There is something dramatically wrong when the game is officiated completely differently from game to game and week to week. Another SHocking legacy  .

[camboon]

And kept with blessing of the socialist dictator from Toorak  McLachlan, heard him spruking how good the rules were today, that make rules up and direct umpires to the point where the games become a form of basketball with kicking
How do you vote the politician out and appoint a true football administer