Hardwick calls the goal review system a joke

[gerkin greg]

"You cannot push, bump or hold in a marking contest... in the back, side or chest"

"The slide rule is fantastic"

Jeff Gieschen, 2013


AFL going down the sh**ter

[dwaino]

Inb4 'personal space' violations. 

[tigs2011]

"You cannot push, bump or hold in a marking contest... in the back, side or chest"

"The slide rule is fantastic"

Jeff Gieschen, 2013


AFL going down the sh**ter

Yer thought wtf when he said side and chest. Thought that had always been legal? Another secret rule change or is it just the interpretation changed? Or is Geisch just saying the ump got it right to protect the lime green pus that has infected the game like he always does?

[Yeahright]

So there was no mistake because the umpires backed themselves?

You're a Maffra boy like myself Giesch, but fair dinkum, you're a bell end.

Think he enjoyed the pies to much

[Judge Roughneck]

"You cannot push, bump or hold in a marking contest... in the back, side or chest"

"The slide rule is fantastic"

Jeff Gieschen, 2013


AFL going down the sh**ter

Yer thought wtf when he said side and chest. Thought that had always been legal? Another secret rule change or is it just the interpretation changed? Or is Geisch just saying the ump got it right to protect the lime green pus that has infected the game like he always does?

Netball.

[wayne]

So there was no mistake because the umpires backed themselves?

You're a Maffra boy like myself Giesch, but fair dinkum, you're a bell end.

Think he enjoyed the pies to much

  The pies are good!

[tigs2011]

"You cannot push, bump or hold in a marking contest... in the back, side or chest"

"The slide rule is fantastic"

Jeff Gieschen, 2013


AFL going down the sh**ter

Yer thought wtf when he said side and chest. Thought that had always been legal? Another secret rule change or is it just the interpretation changed? Or is Geisch just saying the ump got it right to protect the lime green pus that has infected the game like he always does?

Netball.

Even netball allow you to push off an opponents t@s these days. 

[rogerd3]

no wonder the game is stuffed, too many rule changes
that we don't even know about.

[gerkin greg]

Even netball allow you to push off an opponents t@s these days. 

Just signed up

[tigs2011]

Even netball allow you to push off an opponents t@s these days. 

Just signed up

[WilliamPowell]

Another day and another gem from the Giesch

Yesterday he said the goal umps were right now he says they shouldn't on the field of play

From Twitter

“@3AWSportsToday: Gieschen admits goal umpires "shouldn't be in the field of play"”

Please give me a break 

[Judge Roughneck]

Goal umpire should not be on the ground or in a players way

What a revelation

[one-eyed]

Goal umpire dropped after gaffe

    Warwick Green
    From: Herald Sun
    May 02, 2013 11:00PM

PERTH-based goal umpire Dale Edwick has paid the price for his gaffe in last week's Fremantle-Richmond match by being dropped from AFL action this weekend.

Edwick, who has umpired at AFL level since 2006, was the umpire who had one foot on the field when he was struck by a shot from Tigers forward Matt White in the dying minutes last Friday night.

Richmond coach Damien Hardwick was furious post-match, saying he believed the ball had already crossed the line before striking the umpire.

The incident prompted AFL football operations manager Mark Evans to ask the umpires' department to review the positioning of goal umpires.

AFL umpires' manager Jeff Gieschen backed Edwick's handling of the situation and defended goal umpires' right to straddle the line so they might determine close calls.

"(Edwick) was extremely confident and that's why he didn't call for a score review," Gieschen said.

But Gieschen's words of support were not enough to save Edwick's place for Round 6.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/afl/teams/goal-umpire-dropped-after-gaffe/story-e6frf9mx-1226634212910

[tigs2011]

Didn't do anything wrong though...

[tony_montana]

"You cannot push, bump or hold in a marking contest... in the back, side or chest"

"The slide rule is fantastic"

Jeff Gieschen, 2013


AFL going down the sh**ter

that is very concerning. I heard bucks commenting on it earlier this week, surprised no ond else has run with it. The games rooted