I guess the hub situation is making it more difficult for everyone, but consistency of interpretation should be a cornerstone of growing the game and they're having a bad year.
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Umpire farce - Getting worse by the minute!
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I guess the hub situation is making it more difficult for everyone, but consistency of interpretation should be a cornerstone of growing the game and they're having a bad year.
they don't know what they're doing .. chickens without a cranium ..
It's not their fault.
There's no other sport in the world that would change their rules mid week because a coach whinged about it.
There's no other sport in the world that would change their rules mid week because a coach whinged about it.
The dockers got screwed with this one. Reece conca must be remembered as a tiger in the ump rooms.
Just on that the dockers got screwed by the ups as bad as I have seen this year. I only saw the second half but the difference in interpretation of the same rules for each team was a divide to large for me to believe was fair play. The brain fart on the last 2 frees that ultimately cost them the game shows the ups dont know the rules and have no feel for the game.
F ing useless
Yep kind of, but they didn't change the rule they just made the grey area of the interpretation or a kind of rule a little more or less grey. I am not sure which grey they went with but its definitely grey.
Rules need to be BLACK AND WHITE. RIGHT OR WRONG. NOT AN INTERPRETATION OF AN OPINION OF THE INTENT OF THE RULE.
Incredibly tough job to umpire a fast contact sport with so many grey areas.
While also being judged on your ability to sync with two other umpires interpretations.
Commentators watch from a raised viewing platform, through binoculars, with absolutely no physical or weather restrictions whatsoever, and still rely on slow mo replays, from seven camera angles, to decide that probably the umpire got it wrong, or often the umpire actually got it right in the first place.
Would love to watch the game from the head cam of the adjudicating umpire only, and at true speed.
Maybe see a reply from the other two umpires cams, but again at true speed.
Then the umpires may be given the credit they they are due.
Suggestion without notice.
Why dont umpires be put in four man teams and train and umpire on match days together, as a team?
The biggest criticism of umpires is that they are not consistent.
Let the umpires umpire together week after week and that will improve.
Then the best, in form umpiring teams get the blockbuster games, leading to getting selected for the grand final.
While also being judged on your ability to sync with two other umpires interpretations.
Commentators watch from a raised viewing platform, through binoculars, with absolutely no physical or weather restrictions whatsoever, and still rely on slow mo replays, from seven camera angles, to decide that probably the umpire got it wrong, or often the umpire actually got it right in the first place.
Would love to watch the game from the head cam of the adjudicating umpire only, and at true speed.
Maybe see a reply from the other two umpires cams, but again at true speed.
Then the umpires may be given the credit they they are due.
Suggestion without notice.
Why dont umpires be put in four man teams and train and umpire on match days together, as a team?
The biggest criticism of umpires is that they are not consistent.
Let the umpires umpire together week after week and that will improve.
Then the best, in form umpiring teams get the blockbuster games, leading to getting selected for the grand final.
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its like telling little kids to take a step back from a birthday cake at preschool.
The standing of the correct mark is way more important than protected area enforcement IMO
Gotta say, after the weekend, the HTB interpretation is getting worse and worse. How many players, after prior opportunity, were tackled and dropped the ball in the tackle and the tackler wasn't rewarded? Meanwhile a bloke picks up the ball in a contest, with no prior gets wrapped up immediately, arm pinned and gets paid HTB.
I think we are rewarding the wrong tackles.
I think we are rewarding the wrong tackles.
Because they only focus on what they are told to on a week by week basis. The game isn't that complicated.
I've heard the commentators mention it over the weekend so there's nothing surer than Razor or gormless to ping Short at some stage tonight. It will be the first one pinged for the year.
Yeh, it's not that hard. So many good tackles not rewarded.
The one they need to ping is the player that takes possession and almost dives straight into the tackler wanting to create a stoppage.
I am shitting my pants about these umpires tonight. I reckon they will be worth 5 goals to the Suns.
A lot of people say it is a hard game to umpire, but this is an easy one to enforce. The way you have described this is spot on, easy.
