State of Umpiring [merged]

[Chuck17]

Jeez its frustrating, a number of times one of the Norf players dropped the ball cold and the call was play on, but when one of our players gets the ball and gets jumped on by two Norf players immediately its holding the ball.

[TigerTimeII]

we always get screwed by the stuffing maggots

and what poos me is that journos and broadcasters  are not allowed to highlight this fact and bad teh umps because if they do they are breaching their broadcast agreement

afl are CU$%^ with a capital C

[camboon]

North staged all day by throwing themselves forward when tackled for a free every time. It got so bad that I saw a North player do it before being tackled in anticpation -  unfortantly we were second to the ball and lost the game by losing the hard ball gets which means you cant be pushed in the back by being second to the ball

[Ox]

geischen must have a small penis and yes north just threw themselves forward whenever one of our guys were behind them.

Weren't they initially going to pay kicks against the stagers.

[smasha]

The pricks should be fined or suspended but the people who get fined are the coaches who tell em the truth.

stuffing AFL is stuffing BS.

[eliminator]

Falling forward and then being tackled is not a push in the back. The standard of umpiring was very poor. Negligent to allow play to carry on when two Richmond players(Vickery and Will) were on the deck concussed

[the_boy_jake]

Deliberate out of bounds is now not a free. North got away with 2 or 3 I thought...

[Tigermonk]

Umpire #9 who hates Richmond should be sacked

[Hellenic Tiger]

Umpiring against us has been shocking since the Hawthorn game.

[Jacosh]

As soon as the stats were up on the AFL site the first thing I checked was frees. 12 for ad 21 against pretty much sums it up.  So inconsistent it’s a farce, another reason I think Richmond should appeal the cotch decision with legal council.  Force the AFL to look at these inconstancies and make changes to even things up for all clubs instead of the teams at the top of the ladder or their golden players (Judd) getting away with murder.  While the clubs already struggling are handed another hurdle by having the umpires and match review panel against them and handing out heavier penalties

[Chuck17]

You would think the AFL would act, surely 30 000 odd fans constantly booing as in the last couple of weeks isn't a good look for the precious AFL

[one-eyed]

Umps drop the ball in fans eyes
Matt Windley
Herald Sun
July 21, 2010

FOOTBALL fans believe umpiring standards have fallen compared with last year.
 
Players and coaches are prohibited from criticising umpires, but that doesn't stop fans having their say on the league's whistleblowers.

Asked to rate the standard of umpiring this season in the Herald Sun/Seven News Footy Fans Survey, 48.7 per cent of fans said it was "average", 19.8 per cent rated the umpires' efforts as "poor" and less than a third said they were doing a "good" or "excellent" job.

Last season, more than 39 per cent of fans said umpires were doing a good-to-excellent job.

The umpires' performance has come under fire after controversial decisions in cut-throat games this season.

AFL umpires boss Jeff Gieschen said last month he was disappointed field umpires had failed to see behind-play antics of St Kilda tagger Steven Baker and Geelong's Steve Johnson in the Grand Final rematch.

Six charges were laid against the pair when the match was reviewed, yet their behaviour at the time drew no free kicks.

On June 9, Gieschen outlined five separate contentious Round 11 decisions that various umpires got wrong.

That day the AFL defended the game's adjudicators, asserting they made the correct call 85.9 per cent of the time in the season so far.

Veteran umpire Scott McLaren was dropped after incorrectly penalising Essendon's Henry Slattery for a rushed behind in the Dons' Round 6 clash with Hawthorn.

The AFL did not return the Herald Sun's calls on the matter.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/umps-drop-the-ball-in-fans-eyes/story-fn60xo8t-1225894771467

[mightytiges]

The proverbial will hit the fan after this weekend. You can't have goal umpires with clear view not seeing the ball clearly hit the boot from a metre out. 3 incorrect calls in two days  .

[Hellenic Tiger]

The proverbial will hit the fan after this weekend. You can't have goal umpires with clear view not seeing the ball clearly hit the boot from a metre out. 3 incorrect calls in two days  .

Yep the Shannon Byrnes one in the third quarter tonight was just awful. The more we talk about the umpiring the worse the standard of it gets.

[jackstar is back again]

would think the lovely Chelsea Roffey will get a few weeks off after last nights game