Honestly why do these guys get let off the hook. If I was as bad at my job or made as many mistakes as these guys did I would be rightly sacked. If a player has a bad game he will cop it from every media person under the sun, in the paper, on the radio, online articles, social media, etc. so why isn’t it the same with umpires or are you only allowed to criticise if you have a degree in journalism or are an ex player?
The state of umpiring is so inconsistently bad it isn’t funny and the afl only have themselves to blame for continuously backing the umpires publicly even when everyone knows they made a mistake.