State of Umpiring [merged]

[Heart of Darkness]

Were terrible, however, one of the worst calls of the day (and most critical) went our way with Miles not getting pinged for holding the ball.

[🏅Dooks]

Were terrible, however, one of the worst calls of the day (and most critical) went our way with Miles not getting pinged for holding the ball.

Yep and fair enough too.

They had no idea

[dwaino]

Ray went berserk with those in the back calls on decent sling tackles.

Adding Fisher to the McInerny and Stevic pile. He really didn't want to call anything our way. Ray had to call to call a few our way from half way across he ground.

[WilliamPowell]

I don't normally pot the umpires. They have a job to do and like players they make mistakes.

Don't think they influence results as much as of a lot of others do....

But today the umpires were absolutely disgraceful, pathetic and inept.

There was no consistency in their interpretation of the rules.

It was shocking

[Tigeritis™©®]

I don't normally pot the umpires. They have a job to do and like players they make mistakes.

Don't think they influence results as much as of a lot of others do....

But today the umpires were absolutely disgraceful, pathetic and inept.

There was no consistency in their interpretation of the rules.

It was shocking

Were they as bad or worse than us today?

[WilliamPowell]

I don't normally pot the umpires. They have a job to do and like players they make mistakes.

Don't think they influence results as much as of a lot of others do....

But today the umpires were absolutely disgraceful, pathetic and inept.

There was no consistency in their interpretation of the rules.

It was shocking

Were they as bad or worse than us today?

On par

[Jackstar is back!!!]

...are Matt Stevic, Shane McInerny and Leigh Fisher

Matt umpired Thursday night
Razor Ray took his spot today

[Tigeritis™©®]

I don't normally pot the umpires. They have a job to do and like players they make mistakes.

Don't think they influence results as much as of a lot of others do....

But today the umpires were absolutely disgraceful, pathetic and inept.

There was no consistency in their interpretation of the rules.

It was shocking

Were they as bad or worse than us today?

On par

Pretty damn woeful then but woke up in the last 5min.

[Hellenic Tiger]

I thought we could tackle in this game. Obviously not.
Razor Ray was disgraceful.
Ok for one team, other team just got pillaged.
Couldn't lay a hand on them and we couldn't buy one with anything.
Reminded me of the Freo game in 2012 when Pav kicked 6.
Singlehandedly killed us that day when the free kick count at half time was like 17-3.

[wayne]

Shane Edwards tackles Shiela perfectly, Shiel tries to get up, collapses back down and gets in the back 

[Go Richo 12]

The term "interpretation of the rules" poos me. Rules are not to be interpretated but enforced.

[cub]

Disgraceful, stop trying to be part of the show! You're NOT!!!!

[Penelope]

Exactly. Team playing like the first half last week. Actually like most weeks

one doesn't cancel out the other. we were crap, and so were the umps, which just adds to the frustration.

[Lozza]

Am interested to hear other peoples opinion of the Devon Smith goal at the end of the 3rd quarter. If you remember he gets the resulting free kick after Dusty kicks out on the full. The umpire correctly pushes him around on the correct angle meaning he was almost right against the boundary fence. He runs around and kicks a great goal but when watching the replay he starts running around from outside the boundary. My understanding is that once he goes from a straight line approach (some players do have a natural arc so i understand there is a little leeway here) and runs sideways that its play on, at that point he is outside the boundary so shouldn't he have been deemed to be out of bounds?

[Penelope]

i was too busy laughing at the umpire telling him to move around further with devon trying to point out that he was right against the fence already, and the officious bozo not having a bar of that.