Totally incompetent or outright cheating pricks. Very hard to respect this type of performance each week.
Rather than having all these *smile* “academies” the afl should fund Umpires Kindergarten, then they can graduate to Umpires Primary, then Secondary classes.
By the time they graduate and have some practical experience after “repeating” every year they’d be in their mid forties.
Might just be easier to umpire from a bunker in the grandstand. one on field to throw the ball up - he doesn’t get a whistle
Their feelings wouldn’t be offended if a player raised an eyelash at a poor decision.
No costly50m penalties.
Reduced costs as they wouldn’t need so many nincompoops ruining the game and BScott can just be in charge of checking the air pressure of the footies. Better still, he can gagf and fo.