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My thought was the Giants player was backing into him and giving him a bit of elbow and he was giving him a bit right back telling him to get off.
I've been watching the game for over 40 years, and I have to say that was the softest, stupidest, most ridiculous free kick I have EVER seen. When they put the replay up, I was waiting for some footage of Batch either thumping him, putting him in a headlock, or pushing him to the ground. COME ON UMPIRE! That pushy-shove-y stuff happens between players a hundred times a game, ignore it FFS. You wonder why I HATE them so much
if they pay that all day, every week the game comes to a grinding standstill...one of the worst decisions in the history of the game (and that includes us hiring Terry Wallets & taking Tambling before Franklin.......)
The umpires can call a free under rule 15.4.5(e) of the rule book:Prohibited contact and payment of a free kick.(e) pushes, bumps, holds or blocks an opposition Player when the football is further than 5 metres away from the opposition Player or is out of play;So TECHNICALLY speaking the umpire was correct.So why don't they pay all these niggles all of the time?INCONSISTENCY is what is killing the game!
You can twitter @AFL to query any umpiring decisions from the weekend. Put the #YourCall hashtag at the end of your tweet.@AFL "What umpiring decisions should we take a look at in the Round 12 episode of #YourCall"Geisch will answer the ones he only wants to answer though .