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Umpire farce - Getting worse by the minute!
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Unfortunately Selwood was nowhere to be seen in the three examples used to show what constituted a free against the player deemed to be initiating the high contact on AFL Tonight.
There’s an unwritten law that Selwood is not to be criticised ever, for anything. He’s taken over from GJR on that score.
I feel like the entire footy world is gaslighting us... we have had the Selwood rule introduced before, haven't we?
Or do I have false memories of the Selwood rule being brought in about 5-6 years ago only to be unofficially shelved under Geelong's iron grip over the umpiring department?
Yeah that was a joke that one. Bend down to pick the ball up, hit front on head high, pay HTB for a duck. Would love the umps to tell me how you can pick the ball up without pushing your body down. If they think thats the same as a Ginnivan / Selwood / Shuey type action then they should just give the game up right now.
Yeah, there was a crackdown or interpretation definement (that’s not actually a word) just like todays but it was never implemented.
The poor bastard at Collingwood might else well retire. 78% of his scores come from free kicks
Examples of Salty just "understanding the rules better than everyone else"...
And of course - Everyone's favourite....
We are lucky the number 23 Findlay the smiling *smile* wasn't selected to umpire the 2020 GF.
He was the emergency umpire sitting next to Hocking
He was the emergency umpire sitting next to Hocking
Of course he doesn’t like it. He’s trained them to milk the rule, now he has to find another trick.
The AFL will completely balls this up. They can't do rule adjustments. That needs thought, time, development and testing. They are incapable of any of that. This will be Scott calling all the umps into meeting room 2 and saying righto no more frees for ducking fellas.
Their so called 'tweak' of the protected area rule has been a farce, they just threw it out.
Their so called 'tweak' of the protected area rule has been a farce, they just threw it out.
don't get me started, the farce to end all farces. Creates far more problems than it allegedly solves.
The just make it up. They don't pay anywhere near the attention they used to to the where the actual mark is now. If your somewhere near it you 'stand' if your not you're 'outside 5' which is sometimes actually 3, other times it is 8.
and putting players taking the kick and the MOM on the line? Thats gone by the wayside, its as if they think or hope that we won't notice. These are fundamental elements to the game. By any objective measure its a complete debacle.
Collingwobles and Bulldags are the two clubs crying about it the most.
Most outher clubs seem fine wit it
