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Umpire farce - Getting worse by the minute!

The AFL needs to be really careful.
People will turn there back on the game.
63000k tonight.

They have bent us over for 7 yrs and if they start to bend Collingwood over.
Those gate numbers will dramatically fall.
 
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The issue is in the name of making sure people still want to be umpires by effectively shutting down any and all feedback the AFL have killed umpiring.

And as is their norm it will cause the opposite because in the long run this will make less people want to be umpires.

They needed to separate respect from feedback. Pathetic leadership.
 
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Will there be an outcry from Collingwood resulting in a quick turnaround back to favouritism?
 
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The AFL needs to be really careful.
People will turn there back on the game.
63000k tonight.

They have bent us over for 7 yrs and if they start to bend Collingwood over.
Those gate numbers will dramatically fall.
They won’t continually bend over Collonwood; last night was just an off night for the umps.

They’ll get better.
 
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Urgent meeting at AFL headquarters this morning to rectify matters. Selected umpires for next week told to flip the script and resume normal transmission otherwise face the chop.

Phone calls from Brisbane being ignored.
 
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The issue is in the name of making sure people still want to be umpires by effectively shutting down any and all feedback the AFL have killed umpiring.

And as is their norm it will cause the opposite because in the long run this will make less people want to be umpires.

They needed to separate respect from feedback. Pathetic leadership.
I’m surprised they haven’t introduced micro aggressions and body language on their lists of possible offences towards umpires.
 
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Can't believe we got within ten free kicks tonight who would have thought.

This is dead set getting ridiculous. Let's blow money and media time on speaking out publicly on this


Hilariously poor on the last thing few minutes Dixon free one of the softest free kicks ever received by a man over 100 kgs. Then a power backman runs away from mansell slips gets tackled and play on the most easy decision for any ump ...except a compromised one
 
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Corruption at its finest.
I‘m just about done with this “sports entertainment“. I’m done with our club not having the balls to represent their members and call out the *smile* umpires and their puppet masters.
Enough is enough!!!
 
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Can't believe we got within ten free kicks tonight who would have thought.

This is dead set getting ridiculous. Let's blow money and media time on speaking out publicly on this


Hilariously poor on the last thing few minutes Dixon free one of the softest free kicks ever received by a man over 100 kgs. Then a power backman runs away from mansell slips gets tackled and play on the most easy decision for any ump ...except a compromised one
13 -23 not a true reflection of the frees.

For example, Melee took a mark around half forward and then got crunched. Should have been a mark and 50m but no, maggot calls a free. So we get a free paid when the bloke has already marked the bloody thing?

They have no idea anymore.
 
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Outrageous. Just generally *smile* all day, tiggy touchwoods to them, not to us, that last free to Dixon was incredible. he just fell over after the contest, ump close by, in perfect posi, Why and how does that happen? What are they seeing? What is going through their minds?
 
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13 -23 not a true reflection of the frees.

For example, Melee took a mark around half forward and then got crunched. Should have been a mark and 50m but no, maggot calls a free. So we get a free paid when the bloke has already marked the bloody thing?

They have no idea anymore.
Ridiculously inconsistent but only one way
 
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I've developed a learned helplessness when it comes to us getting reamed by umpires. But they could at least use some lubricant occasionally!
 
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This is the worst umpiring I have seen across the board. Every game is riddled with poor decisions by the umps.
Standard has dropped below sea level.
 
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it's become ridiculous
and it's not just our games
the inconsistency
the weird interpretation of junk football law
 
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