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In other news McEvoy (3 years) and Fisher (2years) have re-signed
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In other news McEvoy (3 years) and Fisher (2years) have re-signed
In: Ayce Cordy
Does it make any difference? Name me 3 umpires that have proven to be at all competent?How the _uck did we end up with umpire #19 again (third week in a row) plus one of the other arseclowns from round 1???
How the _uck did we end up with umpire #19 again (third week in a row) plus one of the other arseclowns from round 1???
Does it make any difference? Name me 3 umpires that have proven to be at all competent?
Mistakes get made, along with the odd home crowd-influenced free, but round 1 and the first quarter of the GC game were something else (bordering on bias such that I thought Matthew "now I know what it feels like to have a win" Head had returned to umpiring).
1. There has never been a rule called "dropping the ball". This confusion is caused by the motion an umpire makes when paying holding the ball.
2. If you have had no prior opportunity, you only have to attempt to dispose of the ball correctly. As long as you attempt to dispose of it correctly, it doesn't matter how it is disposed of.
3. If you have prior opportunity, you must dispose of it correctly, regardless of what your opponent does.
4. If you dive on the ball, you must knock it out, regardless of what your opponent does to prevent you doing it.
The bouncing the ball rule has always made me feel the best umpires are probably officiating some high level of metro or country footy.
I tend to think they are bringing Cordy in for defensive purposes. He can play as a key back and without him, they would have only had Lake and Markovic as their tall backs, so they would have had to play Hargrave or Wood on either Stanley or Kozi.
Well, almost. If every time we lay a tackle that should be called holding the ball (our free), it somehow gets called too high or push in the back (their free). Or if every time they do incorrect disposal (throw, etc) the umpire misses it, but times where we do correct disposal get called something else. Dude, it's hard to win, then. If our marks aren't paid, and the oppositions' drops are. If holding the man is "providing a contest" when it's them, but the other way around for us.I really struggled to enjoy the GC match when we were 10 goals up. Seriously has the holding the ball rule been changed in the last year? Couldn't understand how some of those weren't paid.
Anyways. If we're good enough it doesn't matter how bad the umpires are.
Surely, that's the reason they've brought in the new rule, that if the bounce goes wrong, they just throw it up. "They can't bounce" seems an incidental of the game, that means perfectly competent runners (which is what is really the problem here, as I've said in other threads) are not getting game time as umpires.I thought Leigh Fisher did a good game in the VFL last year, but he is a very, very ordinary bounce of the footy (didn't take too many bounces when he was a player either!).
Have a sneaky suspicion that there will be late change today.
Can't believe Essendon vs Gold Coast is on TV not this game
I reckon there's a real chance this will be one of the closest and toughest games of the season