State of Umpiring [merged]

[tdy]

Why are we giving away so many frees these days? It must be tactical.

[mightytiges]

Why are we giving away so many frees these days? It must be tactical.

Our team pressure game would be part of it and apparently Nank is giving a few frees away this year in the ruck. However, for a top side we get poor run with the umps as the AFL admitted during the week with the score review system.

[Slipper]

It isn't helped when you have a space cadet like Butler giving away really dumb 50s.

[Lebowski]

Can someone explain why last week when Jack got ko'd he didnt get a 50, but in the hawks port game, robbie gray did the exact same thing but didnt ko his opponent, however, a 50 was given??

[MintOnLamb]

Who is in charge oof plyers feet over the line on kick ins after a behind?
Ess did it all the time last night

[Dougeytherichmondfan]

Am I the only one that felt the Martin free was completely there?

Everyone else seems to be crying shoft decision. I saw both players jostling for position, Dusty push Hurley out to protect space, and then Hurley fool Martins arm as he lost ground. Thats a black and white free kick for mine.

Edit. Hurley re.tarted Martins arm. Lol at "swear" filter.

[YellowandBlackBlood]

Am I the only one that felt the Martin free was completely there?

Everyone else seems to be crying shoft decision. I saw both players jostling for position, Dusty push Hurley out to protect space, and then Hurley fool Martins arm as he lost ground. Thats a black and white free kick for mine.

Agree

[one-eyed]

AFL CEO says score review errors are unacceptable

By Ben Gibson
SEN
13 June 2018

AFL CEO Gillon McLachlan says the errors made when using the score review system are unacceptable.

“It p----s me off when there’s mistakes,” McLachlan said on SEN's Whateley.

“To have score review mistakes is unacceptable.”

Despite the recent errors made, McLachlan believes the score review “100 percent” does enough good to outweigh the bad.

“I think it’s a ridiculous notion to get rid of it,” he said.

After an incorrect review overturned the on-field decision to award Essendon’s Jake Stringer a goal against Brisbane on Sunday, the review system has faced heavy scrutiny.

But McLachlan says “a fair discussion” is whether the system should no longer be used to determine if a ball brushes the fingers off the boot.

“It’s not ‘scrap the whole thing’,” he said.

“It’s ‘do we actually finesse it a bit or tone it down and stop trying to solve stuff which is too hard to do, like a touch from 50 metres, so we’ll limit its purview?’

“If you did that, then that’s a fair conversation. Getting rid of it is not.”

https://www.sen.com.au/news/2018/06/13/afl-ceo-says-score-review-errors-are-unacceptable/

[Chuck17]

Stuff me they are putrid

Not giving Rance frees because of the media bullpoo is just wrong

[georgies31]

Become beyond a joke club needs to approach afl with vision frees payed to other teams we dont get.

[mightytiges]

Umps wearing these horizontal hooped glasses today.

[one-eyed]

Free kick bonanza

After Western Bulldogs coach Luke Beveridge questioned the trial of four umpires on Thursday night, the spotlight went onto the same group of officials who backed up three days later. Nick Foot, Brett Rosebury, Simon Meredith and Jacob Mollison combined for 53 free kicks, four more than they paid in Adelaide. It saw the competition average rise to 47.5 across the six matches for the weekend, up from 43 paid across round 12. Two 50-metre penalties in the second term left fans bemused with Kamdyn McIntosh and Tom Stewart's protected zone infringements resulting in direct goals.

http://www.afl.com.au/news/2018-06-17/five-talking-points-geelong-v-richmond

[cub]

Lost my poo at cats supporters trying to defend every 50/50 they got when we get none
Then they pulled out the old if it was at Kardinia, which incited more from me
stuff I hate Geeflog still salty about last year .., stuff them

[Slipper]

I know why the rule was introduced, but they have to do something about the diving in/contact below the knees rule.

Jack Graham got penalised in the last qtr today when he was the only player going for the ball. A Geelong player just basically watched him go hard at the footy, and then got a free kick for it because Jack dived head first on the pill. Graham didn't even look to be heading in the direction of the Geelong player, more parallel to him.

Stuff me, if you are going to reward the bloke who is not making a contest and going for the ball, then you are going to stuff the fundamentals of the game.

[dwaino]

Will Danger cop the same treatment as Rance for his flop against Dusty?

Jack getting coathangered in a marking contest right in front of goal pretty much sums up our treatment from umpires this season.