KermitJagger
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- May 17, 2017
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Surprised this hasn't been posted yet, but the advantage rule is one of those ones where too much leeway is given to the umpires and their interpretation. James Worpel should feel incredibly hard done by as he stopped to not take advantage upon hearing the whistle, when he could have put it inside 50. That led to a goal for Essendon. In normal circumstances, 99/100 that free would be taken back - but in the last quarter of close games the whistles tend to get put away a bit.
So I'll concede, that doesn't happen a LOT because even umpires have more sense than that - but if the umpire thought there was advantage there why blow the whistle at all?
The difficult part is how to fix this without making the players take their free kicks and not play on to avoid more congestion. Potentially take a leaf from netball's book that if the advantage call doesn't directly advantage the team taking it, they then bring it back.
So I'll concede, that doesn't happen a LOT because even umpires have more sense than that - but if the umpire thought there was advantage there why blow the whistle at all?
The difficult part is how to fix this without making the players take their free kicks and not play on to avoid more congestion. Potentially take a leaf from netball's book that if the advantage call doesn't directly advantage the team taking it, they then bring it back.