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umpires?
- Thread starter Richmond rule 999
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Maybe we should be directing the question towards the AFL with the those who continue to weekly impose to highlight certain types of free kicks.
Poor umps are continually put under pressure from the AFL who just can't leave the rules alone week in week out. No wonder there are different intrepetations
Yet when they get it wrong against the Tiges I need some anger management ;D
Poor umps are continually put under pressure from the AFL who just can't leave the rules alone week in week out. No wonder there are different intrepetations
Yet when they get it wrong against the Tiges I need some anger management ;D
Thought they were better last week than the previous 2, let it the players play and didn't pull it up every 5 seconds.
Richmond rule 999 said:
They were better when there was less of them. There is a real logic to that IMO.
Dyer'ere said:
I agree to some degree however it doesn't explain how interpretations seem to change mid game! Our game Vs Nth is the perfect example. after 1/4 time (and after the damage was done) the Umpires completely changed the way they were Umpiring and let the game flow a lot more easily
nwonash said:
Bingo.
I bet umpires hate Adrian Anderson's guts.
Seriously has their job ever been harder?
Tigers of Old said:
Spot on. In many ways the rules committee has changed the essence of the game, and that is get the bloody footy. To often now the play makers are penalised for trying to win the footy and the fringe dwellers rewarded for sitting off and applying a tackle when someone esle has put there body on the line to win it in the first place.
How many times has the player fighting for a hard ball been penalised for holding the ball or dragging it in when beseiged by the pack dwellers who dont want to get their hands dirty.
The in the back rule was designed to protect players, but the levels it has gone too now with incidental contact is beyond a joke.