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Umpire farce - Getting worse by the minute!

eZyT

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Personally think Neale was lucky. Agressive and he was sooking about blood on his head that came from an accidental knock from Betts' knee.

exceedingly lucky.

way out of line.

a friendly hand on the back with a smile should be $1500,

Neale should have got 2 weeks
 

zippadeee

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exceedingly lucky.

way out of line.

a friendly hand on the back with a smile should be $1500,

Neale should have got 2 weeks
What did Williams get 8 weeks?
Little *smile* should've got stripped of his Brownlow.
Still in my top 5 of underwhelming Brownlow winner's.
Alongside Wooedin, Dippa, Libba and Wilson
 

percyms

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Watched a bit of ANZAC Day game and boy oh boy doesnt Daicos duck and shrug the shoulder in the middle. Stats dont seem to show frees for and against for players anymore but I saw him get several for just ducking and shrugging....
 

Harry

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who was the blonde umpire? he was just *smile*. maybe the blonde hair stood out but he just made so many bad decisions. he needs to look for other employment. he'll most likely umpire 500 games.
 

tigertim

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Watched a bit of ANZAC Day game and boy oh boy doesnt Daicos duck and shrug the shoulder in the middle. Stats dont seem to show frees for and against for players anymore but I saw him get several for just ducking and shrugging....
The AFL app shows frees by each player, Daicos had 4 for and 2 against.
 

acatman1

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So last year when tackled and the ball dropped, BUT you tried to kick it but this, the call was "he made an attempt", now this year its incorrect disposal.
 

mrposhman

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So last year when tackled and the ball dropped, BUT you tried to kick it but this, the call was "he made an attempt", now this year its incorrect disposal.

Depends who's playing.

Yes for most teams, for a select few though (you know who they are) its play on.
 
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acatman1

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Depends who's playing.

Yes for most teams, for a select few though (you know who they are) its play on.
Yes i agree Pendleberry Sidebottom yesterday it didnt matter. Actually the umps are bad enough, their job made harder by the w*nkers at the AFL. Obvioulsy on the weekend " deliberate" was the rule of the week, It is a joke.
 

bob

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Watched a bit of ANZAC Day game and boy oh boy doesnt Daicos duck and shrug the shoulder in the middle. Stats dont seem to show frees for and against for players anymore but I saw him get several for just ducking and shrugging....
100% agree. He is getting towards Selwood territory.

Well... not really. Selwood is way out in front re ducking/shrugging shoulders. Then daylight. Selwood and the ducking frees will be like Dusty and the Norm Smiths. Hard to see anyone replicating the milestone.

But, whilst I thought yesterday's game was a pretty good spectacle, Daicos' playing for the free kicks was pathetic.
 

Sintiger

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What did Williams get 8 weeks?
Little *smile* should've got stripped of his Brownlow.
Still in my top 5 of underwhelming Brownlow winner's.
Alongside Wooedin, Dippa, Libba and Wilson
He was a grub of a player, a sniper, but he was unbelievably good footballer.
That’s part of the reason I detested him so much. Sniping grub who played for Carlton and was a really good player. Couldn’t get much worse than that.
Replace him with Scott Wynd in your top 5 crappy Brownlow winners
 

Razorgang2

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Mar 15, 2014
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He was a grub of a player, a sniper, but he was unbelievably good footballer.
That’s part of the reason I detested him so much. Sniping grub who played for Carlton and was a really good player. Couldn’t get much worse than that.
Replace him with Scott Wynd in your top 5 crappy Brownlow winners
Nailed it Sin, an absolute champ, doesnt mean I liked him tho.
 
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DavidSSS

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I'm guessing this thread has been pretty quiet so far this season?

No need for any defence of the adjudication. :peepwall

Hard to defend the indefensible.

Let's face it, the umpiring is getting worse, hard to imagine I know, but they are putrid and need to be called out. This is a professional competition and we should expect better and we should get better adjudication.

DS
 
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The stat I am most interested in this year is the free kick count for/against i50m arc.
Honestly I can only remember us getting a couple of free kicks max close to goal for the entire year. Where as our opposition seems to be getting a heap of goals from free kicks i50m every week. Where you receive your free kicks makes all the difference in a game. It’s where umpiring influences results most. I can only guess this number would be extremely lop sided.

How would one find an important statistic like that?
 

tigertim

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The stat I am most interested in this year is the free kick count for/against i50m arc.
Honestly I can only remember us getting a couple of free kicks max close to goal for the entire year. Where as our opposition seems to be getting a heap of goals from free kicks i50m every week. Where you receive your free kicks makes all the difference in a game. It’s where umpiring influences results most. I can only guess this number would be extremely lop sided.

How would one find an important statistic like that?
The HUN have them in their game day review stats sheet but an overall would be champion data I presume.

melb 6 Richmond 1
st kilda 6 Richmond 4 last week
 
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22nd Man

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The HUN have them in their game day review stats sheet but an overall would be champion data I presume.

melb 6 Richmond 1
st kilda 6 Richmond 4 last week
Scores from frees
Rich 0.1 Mel 4.1

Dimma was critical of our players giving dumb frees away in his after match (unless that was code for umpires giving dumb frees)
 
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leon

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what interested me the most tonight was what I thought I heard. The footy was *smile*.
Are the umpires getting live feedback from the stands? I heard, "pay that, pay it" when the ball was deemed deliberately out of bounds in the second quarter. I felt it was a mic to the ump, but surely I'm hearing things.
Good post, HR. You are on to something there. I thought I heard that on the effects mike too and wondered at the time who was saying it. Thought it may have been someone in the crowd.
Very curious.
 

Redford

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Good post, HR. You are on to something there. I thought I heard that on the effects mike too and wondered at the time who was saying it. Thought it may have been someone in the crowd.
Very curious.

I heard it. Pretty sure it was someone in the crowd or someone on the boundary line.