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Quote from: Lozza on August 11, 2019, 06:11:42 PMQuote from: mightytiges on August 11, 2019, 05:41:43 PMThat was a mark wasn't it to Astbury?Commonsense umpiring would have been to call a ball-up if he called it touched.Common sense applies to any other team other than Tigers. Marked the ball and then immediately tackled, where was prior opportunity?Astbury shouldn't have dropped it. That was why he was pinged. He should have just held onto the ball and hoped for a ball-up.
Quote from: mightytiges on August 11, 2019, 05:41:43 PMThat was a mark wasn't it to Astbury?Commonsense umpiring would have been to call a ball-up if he called it touched.Common sense applies to any other team other than Tigers. Marked the ball and then immediately tackled, where was prior opportunity?
That was a mark wasn't it to Astbury?Commonsense umpiring would have been to call a ball-up if he called it touched.
Quote from: mightytiges on August 11, 2019, 06:20:05 PMQuote from: Lozza on August 11, 2019, 06:11:42 PMQuote from: mightytiges on August 11, 2019, 05:41:43 PMThat was a mark wasn't it to Astbury?Commonsense umpiring would have been to call a ball-up if he called it touched.Common sense applies to any other team other than Tigers. Marked the ball and then immediately tackled, where was prior opportunity?Astbury shouldn't have dropped it. That was why he was pinged. He should have just held onto the ball and hoped for a ball-up.He didn’t drop it?!
Quote from: Dougeytherichmondfan on August 11, 2019, 08:29:05 PMQuote from: mightytiges on August 11, 2019, 06:20:05 PMQuote from: Lozza on August 11, 2019, 06:11:42 PMQuote from: mightytiges on August 11, 2019, 05:41:43 PMThat was a mark wasn't it to Astbury?Commonsense umpiring would have been to call a ball-up if he called it touched.Common sense applies to any other team other than Tigers. Marked the ball and then immediately tackled, where was prior opportunity?Astbury shouldn't have dropped it. That was why he was pinged. He should have just held onto the ball and hoped for a ball-up. He didn’t drop it?!He certain did drop. Letting it go is dropping it
Quote from: mightytiges on August 11, 2019, 06:20:05 PMQuote from: Lozza on August 11, 2019, 06:11:42 PMQuote from: mightytiges on August 11, 2019, 05:41:43 PMThat was a mark wasn't it to Astbury?Commonsense umpiring would have been to call a ball-up if he called it touched.Common sense applies to any other team other than Tigers. Marked the ball and then immediately tackled, where was prior opportunity?Astbury shouldn't have dropped it. That was why he was pinged. He should have just held onto the ball and hoped for a ball-up. He didn’t drop it?!
FJ is the only one that makes sense.
Astbury was tackled before he had it, and even though he did the right thing by beating McGovern for position, was wrapped up and held it in like he should have for a long time. A slow motion replay showed a touch but pretty disgraceful decision to pay that free kick in that moment, in the wet when they hadn't been paying them all day. If McGovern took the ball in the same situation it never would have been paid (if they didn't cheat and pay the mark). Felt like a genuine evener-uperer.
Grimes clearly touched the ball before Astbury caught it and Astbury was an idiot for not taking the tackle and then trying to dispose of the ball.....
