Umpire farce - Getting worse by the minute!

[DavidSSS]

Lynch molested just before 3/4 time, Razor saw nothing in it

It's a free kick every day of the week.

They paid a couple of them today, which surprised me as forwards getting held has been rife for years and needs to be stopped. But, yeah, they do miss heaps of these.

DS

 

[tigerman]

They paid a couple of them today, which surprised me as forwards getting held has been rife for years and needs to be stopped. But, yeah, they do miss heaps of these.

DS

Yeah, I must say the umpiring wasn't too bad. Don't know if I'll ever stop cringing at the stand rule though.

Lynch's non free kick just before 3/4 time was a shocker though. He was blatantly dragged, scragged, tackled whatever you want to call it without the ball. Arm chops can be a 50/50 call, but this was far from it.

 

[Redford]

The umpiring was ok yesterday save for Chamberlain going off tap (again) in the second half.

He really is a very poor umpire.

 

[Tiger44]

Any idea how many goals we scored yesterday were from free kicks? Reckon we had a years worth in one game - must have been at least 6 if not more! Mind you GWS did not help their cause with poor tackling.

 

[yandb]

Just remember that just over twenty seven years ago we were running games with just 2 umpires so the best 16 umpires were judging the games each week.

Now with the four umpires in the game it is the best 36 umpires judging the game.

The fatigue factor is not an issue these days it is getting 36 umpires to interpret the rules the same way.

TBR Less than twenty years ago the game was 25 mins plus time on now it is 20 mins plus time on now you are advocating for 17 mins why not 10 mins and we could

complete our transition to Basket ball?

Our game is unique as it requires players who are tall and small it also requires player with speed and player with endurance shortening the quarters yet again would

mean that a lot of the talls and endurance players would no longer be required.

The unlimited interchange has been tried and been abandoned.

Changing our game to cater to the corporate elite would destroy its soul.

Umpiring has gone down hill since the AFL has been appointing ex AFL coaches or players as head of umpiring.

 

[artball]

The STAND! rule is a pimple on the game - demeaning, stupid and so out of place.

Razor Ray is a fool. Can't help himself.

 

[tigertim]

Good to see Dimma give a drive by on the umpire dissent adjudication:

”Last week dissent was glaring (at the ump) this week you can (waves arms), it’s hard to know where you stand”.

but hey, he’s just a 3 time premiership coach, what would he know….

 

[TigerForce]

The STAND! rule is a pimple on the game - demeaning, stupid and so out of place.

Razor Ray is a fool. Can't help himself.

He fair dinkum SPEWED UP!!

 

[Bunnerz]

Umpires were ok yesterday i thought.

Lynch missed a free 15m out.

ANd we got one we shouldnt have 40m out.

evened out.


RFC were always in control, the problem is when th heat is on during matched and scores a pretty much level, the umpires aalways seem to produce a few shockers to start momentum to a team.

ANyway, the game is now worse for the way it is adjudicated.

 

[Tenacious]

Razor gave us a couple yesterday that I really wasn't expecting.
I was saying at the time - we'll pay for them at some stage - have no doubt.
That last free of the game - I think it was Razor who awarded it to Balta. Didn't have to pay it - game was over - meant nothing.
But it suited Razor to give d one in front of the Army.
Unfortunately we'll pay big time for that one day too - nothing surer.

 

[DavidSSS]

Yeah, I must say the umpiring wasn't too bad. Don't know if I'll ever stop cringing at the stand rule though.

Lynch's non free kick just before 3/4 time was a shocker though. He was blatantly dragged, scragged, tackled whatever you want to call it without the ball. Arm chops can be a 50/50 call, but this was far from it.

Everybody cringes at the stand rule, I figure they must send the umpires to actor training to ensure they are not too obvious with their cringes when bellowing out "STAND".

There is a big field, but this has to be the worst rule change ever.

DS

 

[tigertim]

What I don’t get with how teams now cope with the stand rule is getting the MOTM to move 5 metres away from the actual mark but they still can’t move! They still just man the mark. Don’t understand the point.

 

[Redford]

complete our transition to Basket ball?

For a number of years now I have thought that the game is beginning to resemble a glorified version of basketball, just on a bigger playing arena with more players. Keepings off, over technical umpiring interference, one side goes down one far end of the ground (court)...the other defends...opposing side then goes down the other far end of the ground (court) and tries the same......repeat and rinse.

 

[DavidSSS]

What I don’t get with how teams now cope with the stand rule is getting the MOTM to move 5 metres away from the actual mark but they still can’t move! They still just man the mark. Don’t understand the point.

I think you are supposed to be allowed to move if 5m back from the mark, but sometimes the umpire still tells the player on the mark to stand (not 5m away maybe?). But if they are not 5m away then surely they should then be able to move to the actual mark, although this is very inconsistently applied.

The other issue is when a player runs to stand the mark and the umpire is confused as to whether they are going outside 5m or trying to get to the actual mark, what often happens is that the mark gets moved forward a couple of metres to the advantage of the player who has taken a mark or received a free.

Absolute mess really.

DS

 

[tigertim]

I think you are supposed to be allowed to move if 5m back from the mark, but sometimes the umpire still tells the player on the mark to stand (not 5m away maybe?). But if they are not 5m away then surely they should then be able to move to the actual mark, although this is very inconsistently applied.

The other issue is when a player runs to stand the mark and the umpire is confused as to whether they are going outside 5m or trying to get to the actual mark, what often happens is that the mark gets moved forward a couple of metres to the advantage of the player who has taken a mark or received a free.

Absolute mess really.

DS

Yeah, you see players now go to man the mark, realise they’ll get pinged 50m for getting in the protected zone then just run away. So the choice in this instance is a: give away 50m or b: just let the player with the ball play on.

 

[Puntrd64]

The umpiring was ok yesterday save for Chamberlain going off tap (again) in the second half.

He really is a very poor umpire.

If David Warner was an AFL umpire he would be Razor Ray. Just as annoying. Small man syndrome?

 

[Redford]

If David Warner was an AFL umpire he would be Razor Ray. Just as annoying. Small man syndrome?

Well, there’s definitely some syndrome with him.

 

[TT33]

I think you are supposed to be allowed to move if 5m back from the mark, but sometimes the umpire still tells the player on the mark to stand (not 5m away maybe?). But if they are not 5m away then surely they should then be able to move to the actual mark, although this is very inconsistently applied.

The other issue is when a player runs to stand the mark and the umpire is confused as to whether they are going outside 5m or trying to get to the actual mark, what often happens is that the mark gets moved forward a couple of metres to the advantage of the player who has taken a mark or received a free.

Absolute mess really.

DS

It's a stupid, illogical & totally unnecessary rule that goes against the very nature of Australian Rules Football as it WAS played for over 150 years.

I hate the "spectacle" that the game now is, frankly I find it unwatchable, I tried 3 times to watch different games over the weekend & lasted 15 minutes in total.

It's not real footy anymore imo.

 

[snags]

It's a stupid, illogical & totally unnecessary rule that goes against the very nature of Australian Rules Football as it WAS played for over 150 years.

I hate the "spectacle" that the game now is, frankly I find it unwatchable, I tried 3 to watch different games over the weekend & lasted 15 minutes in total.

It's not real footy anymore imo.

Thing is they won't roll the rule back even recognising how crap it is. They'll likely layer another crap rule on the top or a further tweak of the same rule in order to save face.

 

[HR]

Good to see Dimma give a drive by on the umpire dissent adjudication:

”Last week dissent was glaring (at the ump) this week you can (waves arms), it’s hard to know where you stand”.

but hey, he’s just a 3 time premiership coach, what would he know….

The amount of free kicks that would have been payed against us in Rd 1 that were let go over round 2 was phenomenal. Every game I watched and I'm in Broome kicking back ladies and gentlemen, so I watched alot of footy, had blatant demonstrations of dissent.
The stand the mark rule was as abhorrent as it has ever been this weekend as well. It was forgotten about for North Melbourne, they did what they wanted.
Ill keep going, the way the NM players have been coached to play for in the back frees cost one of them a concussion. If the player refuses to use a knee to offset a tackle, I call it self preservation, then they should 1, not get a free for in the back and 2, get pinged for holding the ball. If this interpretation was used by the afl it would disincentivse the outcome of gaining a free kick by placing oneself in harms way. Willie Riolis tackle was pure and the NM player was let's just say, poor. Carlton forward line did the same thing against us in the forward line, plant 2 feet and just lunge forward getting the free. The onus for ones welfare lies primarily on the player themselves and secondly on their opponent. Umpireit that way and the head I juries would go back to where they used to be.