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- Nov 26, 2009
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Disgraceful! how do three umpires miss this when the stakes are so high! blatantly cheating!
Easily? Have you ever umpired a game? People seem to have the idea that everything must be seen and no mistakes can be made. Umpires make less errors than players do, yet get the most criticism for "costing games". Granted that throw was ugly. But its a game of angles, look at all the players around him, and then the Lions player in front of Kelly. The only angle you could clearly pick up the throw is if you're standing on the lower right side of the screen. Its a game of angles, 360 degrees. One degree different either direction can alter perception to what you see. Also take into account not ALL umpires are looking at the ball carrier, some would be looking around the ball carrier for other infringements. If everyone watched the ball, many things will be missed.
I hate poor umpiring and calls as anyone. But the level of umpire bashing these days is now on a cultural level, where its now a right. Find ONE game day thread this year where people on the losing team haven't blamed umpires?
As someone who umpired a handful of games as a teenager, I grew to respect how freaking hard it was, and how easy it was to miss things. Got abuse as well, and in the end decided that its not for me.
It sucks the throw was missed, but the footage clearly shows no umpire appears to be in eye line of that gap on the lower left of the screen where you have front on view of Kelly. Anywhere else is blocked by players. Rule of umpiring is you only pay something if you're 100 percent sure of it, not 90 percent, 100 percent. The answer to how it COULD be missed is pretty much common sense and on the screen, but people don't analyze it that way. Not to mention the speed of the game these days as well.
The umpiring standard of this game WAS poor don't get me wrong. I'm just pointing out the over heated reactions on this specific play like it was the most easiest thing to see in the world.
If anything the Lions reckless bombing inside 50 when they hard control for much of the last quarter, when you have two of the best inceptors in the league at GWS probably cost them more. Tactically the wrong way to go about it.
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