State of Umpiring [merged]

[Tigeritis™©®]

Yep noone gets in the face of the opposition. Noone. We don't grind anyone into dust we just leave a pathway for them to get back into the game.
Noone prepared to push the boundaries or encourage someone to do so.
Every team has a player you love to hate. Except us.
We have players that people laugh at. Vanilla types. Blokes who just simply cruise through the game in exactly the same way whether we are well up or down. Lamentably too many of these types and not enough blokes bucking the trend to show initiative and put the hand up to take responsibility.
We are the politically correct footy club. Non controversial and therefore non relevant.
Everyone gets a prize. The Jack Dyer Medal count will be postponed because all players deserve to win it. It's not about winning its about everyone wanting to play in the centre, FF, Wing etc and everyone plays the same amount of time. Its about participating and fostering happy kids playing footy.
Next week RFC will be playing Aus Kick because blokes like Ty don't want to play under the spotlight and the Aus Kick kids will be playing for us because we want to share the joy. Welcome to the Under 10's or more commonly known as the RFC.

Jake King was that type of agressor but the club told him he was a naughty boy, so he had to join a biker club as to appease that natural agressive instinct that tigeritis sucks the life out of.
Now he plays as soft and as dumb as anyone else in the team even when he is actually playing.

Jackson is typical of this too. Limited as a footballer but naturally an agressor and a supporter of mates.  A combatant an instigator and a fighter.
But like many before him, he too will end up a administrators/managers list which is the legacy of the Richmond footy club.

[Diocletian]

Maybe not - but if rape is not. Free kick

Why don't we do the same to the opposition strongest player

What happens to cotchin

Mentally weak we don't retaliate. We simply play nice. We don't hunt we get hunted and once the trend of the game is set the pattern does not change unless the opposition change it.
Mentally weak and pea hearted bunch.
Has been hapenning for 30 odd years.
Haven't bashed anyone since the 70's just ask those who gleefully smashed Vin Waite, Nicholls and co at Carlton. Now we are just happy to cop it and move in. The less scrutiny on our deficiencies the better rather than try to improve on our image. Welcome to another cycle of skata.

As crap as he's been, this is why King is still important for now and why he should've played last night against the club he gets most fired up for.

[Judge Roughneck]

Not,only does no one get in the opposition face

But our players get cleaned up

And no one retaliates

[Hellenic Tiger]

Yep we are the vanilla boys.
Never chocolate, never strawberry just vanilla.

[Chuck17]

Vanilla with a touch of pink icing

[one-eyed]

Some of Macaffer's tagging tactcs illegal, says Cotchin
Ben Guthrie 
afl.com.au
April 13, 2014 12:45 PM

RICHMOND captain Trent Cotchin has described some of the tagging tactics used by Collingwood's Brent Macaffer on Friday night as "illegal".

Macaffer earned plaudits for the way he limited Cotchin's impact, keeping the Tigers skipper to just 13 disposals in the Magpies' 38-point victory.

It was Cotchin's lowest possession count since round 16, 2010.

"We know there's been taggers in the game for donkey's years but, just at times, I thought I was being held illegally," Cotchin told Channel 7's Game Day program on Sunday.

"But the reality is there's three umpires out there, they're doing the best they can and the onus is on myself to win the footy and to have my teammates helping me out."

Injured vice-captain Brett Deledio was also on the panel and believed the Tigers needed to do more to help Cotchin against the pressure he faces from the opposition.

"It's something we've been aware of for quite a few years. The hardest thing is you can't really hurt anyone, you've just got to get in the way and maybe wrestle them and get them on the ground, so that Trent can get away and get a few kicks," Deledio said.

"It's just something we've got to be better at as a side to really get our star players into the game."

Macaffer admitted to AFL.com.au on Friday night that his tactics would not win favour with everyone.

"It's difficult. I got pinged for a couple out there that I thought were a bit touch and go, and thought I should've got a couple as well," he said.

AFL senior umpiring coach Hayden Kennedy said Macaffer's "bear trap" did not look good from an aesthetics point of view.

"No, not particularly, and that’s purely from an umpiring perspective," Kennedy told SEN radio on Saturday when asked whether the off-the-ball contact was umpired efficiently on Friday night.

"Umpires are instructed as soon as they see a hold, that’s where the free occurs.

"There has to be a hold."

http://www.afl.com.au/news/2014-04-13/tag-tactics-illegal-cotchin

[one-eyed]

DUSTY DENIED
Herald-Sun
April 21, 2014

Richmond coach Damien Hardwick was quick to note after the Tigers’ win against Brisbane that Dustin Martin had six shots at goal “and one taken away from him for a free kick”.

The decision he was referring to came with just 5min left in the game after Martin took what appeared to be a fantastic contested mark at the top of the goalsquare, only to have Jack Riewoldt land on his head and the umpire take the ball off him.

The call was for a hold but it was hard to see anything untoward before the ball arrived.

However, Martin can’t complain too much after he was paid a free after falling to the turf on the boundary line following a gentle push earlier in the final term.

And teammate Troy Chaplin also dodged a bullet after he cannoned into Dayne Zorko’s head in the first quarter only for the umpire to wave play-on.

http://www.news.com.au/sport/afl/round-5-if-you-dont-mind-umpire-check-out-the-weekends-most-contentious-decisions/story-fnelctok-1226890950441

[mightytiges]

Was umpire No.29 (Scott Jeffery) the one up at the Geelong forward end?

[🏅Dooks]

From memory Umpire #29 was the one that looked Selwood in his bleeding face from 2m away after he kicked that goal in the last quarter and didnt send him off on the blood rule.

#29 also paid the free against rance for his spoil on Hawkins in the 3rd quarter for "blocking" 

[TigerMonk]

McDonoagh chases the Geelong player grabs him spins him around on the boundary line & the player drops the ball & its play on WTF how many times did them umpires not give us a free

[TigerMonk]

Umpire 29 is Corrupt  Geelong player clearly holding the Richmond players jumper right in front of him

[Tigeritis™©®]

Are we shot because of the umpires???

And all this time I thought it was because our team has a bunch of limpwristed softies that keep getting games because the coach had gone soft since he contracted the disease that is tigeritis.

[YellowandBlackBlood]

Umpire 29 is Corrupt  Geelong player clearly holding the Richmond players jumper right in front of him

I think he is due to turn into a fly soon and hopefully fly away....

[Owl]

First quarter and half of the second, the umpiring was suss as almighty stuff, it didn't matter if we tackled them to the ground after they had the ball for five stuffing minutes and they dropped it after the tackle, it was just play on.  If we touched the ball and they grabbed us it was a tackle.

[TigerMonk]

First quarter and half of the second, the umpiring was suss as almighty stuff, it didn't matter if we tackled them to the ground after they had the ball for five stuffing minutes and they dropped it after the tackle, it was just play on.  If we touched the ball and they grabbed us it was a tackle.

yep it happened so many times, central umpire over ruled him 2 times