Blocking our run

[Enviable Tradition]

One thing that has been starting to shit me over the last few weeks is teams illegally blocking our overlap run.

It seems that everyone had decided the way to beat us is to get numbers behind the ball to stop our quick movement. Which is boring but fine

But when we then try and run it through teams are repeatedly interfering with the guy who handpasses it off then looks to run on for the 1-2.

It should actually be a free and 50m penalty.

The most obvious one last night was on Ebert.

 

[Macca19]

There seems to be a few rules that have lapsed over time

 

[Chad WinGOAT]

I also find players who mark the ball are always being held afterwards to prevent a quick kick or handball. I understand on a fast break teams do it. But against us it's almost every mark.

 

[RossFC]

How did the ump ignore that Ebert one? He was clearly running down the line and was infringed.

 

[tangolikelama]

Yeah I cracked it last night.. I'm pretty sure it was in the 2nd Qtr when Ebert had a quick one two on the wing and was about to collect another from his overlapping run but was then blocked from running. Of course the commentators said that was a brilliant piece of play by the Doggies player..

 

[Stromageddon]

Yeah I cracked it last night.. I'm pretty sure it was in the 2nd Qtr when Ebert had a quick one two on the wing and was about to collect another from his overlapping run but was then blocked from running. Of course the commentators said that was a brilliant piece of play by the Doggies player..

If anyone can make a compilation video of these incidents (including Minson's illegal blocking of Lobbe in the ruck) to further our cause, it's you. Hop to it, tiger!

 

[Ford Fairlane]

If they can miss the high tackle on Jonas in the last quarter they can miss anything.

It's not just the sliding of rules it's the inconsistency. Every now and again it's as if they remember Hey we should be paying a free for that and they do even they've ignored it 20 times. The new blocking rule was a classic, I watched the crows do it time and again one game and the next day the first time it remotely looked like we did it free kick in front of goal.

And the rules committee keeps making changes without a thought to how it affects the game. Now with this leading with the head rule change has made players even more reluctant to attack the ball. Everybody sweats off waiting to be the tackler because if you go too low for the ball it's tunnelling, you bend over and you're fair game. What's the point of being first to the ball and trying to create?

They've even relaxed on the shit centre bounce. Oh close enough to a contest. Never mind that all the centre square positioning is buggered and an awkward bounce favours a team if not an individual ruckman.

Sorry a bit off topic but some of the nonsense going on lately with rules and interpretations on and off field is destructive to the game.

 

[El_Scorcho]

I'd save it for a big game. I think Geelong will be too proud to go uber-defensive on us, and we should smash Carlton regardless.

Save it for the Sydney game. Bang on about it in the media during the week before, with video examples and complaints about poor treatment.

 

[Dopamine]

Not to mention its just plain shit to watch. Last two home games have been absolute snorefests because umpires refuse to award the tackler and pay frees against lazy teams whose only defence is to dive on the ball at every opportunity.

Dropping the ball plain doesn't exist and the "crack down" on dropping the head was ignored also.

Has to be the only sport in the world that allows such wildly different interpretations of the rules not only week to week, but between games on the same weekend.


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[Doctor Feel]

Yesterdays match was hardly a spectacle, the crowd was quite flat too I thought. The endless stoppages were a massive borefest, that third quarter was up there with some of the most roos/lyon football i've ever seen.

My other half kept asking me why we have stopped using the corridor this year, I told her it's because every team insists on parking every player at their disposal in the middle.

 

[Wind Power]

The blocking in the ruck was also another thing, they did play a free once the game was dead. It was going on all game, when they would put rough head and minson against Lobbe in the ruck. The overall umpiring was poor the whole game with the Ebert block and the Hombsch holding a couple of the worst. With the Hombsch one ending in a goal against us.

 

[Powerstufff]

How did the ump ignore that Ebert one? He was clearly running down the line and was infringed.

The simple answer is they ignored a lot. Re-watching the game today we got away with a bit too.

 

[Powerstufff]

.... Every now and again it's as if they remember Hey we should be paying a free for that and they do even they've ignored it 20 times ....

That is a perfect description of last night's umpiring. Sudden random decisions.
In the end probably we came out even and I actually liked the game that resulted. But it's a dodgy way to do things in a game that was within 2 goals for most of the night. I we'd lost by that margin we'd all be on here citing this decision and that decision.

 

[FPPF]

Are AFL umpires meant to be "professional"?

 

[charcolechaddy]

That is a perfect description of last night's umpiring. Sudden random decisions.
In the end probably we came out even and I actually liked the game that resulted. But it's a dodgy way to do things in a game that was within 2 goals for most of the night. I we'd lost by that margin we'd all be on here citing this decision and that decision.

The bald fild umpire(is it Nicholes.) misses the obvious and then picks ones up no one sees.

 

[Hellgood]

Does it happen? No doubt, it's a tactic encouraged even playing local footy.

Should it be penalised occasionally to discourage it? Yes.

Is it only happening to us? No.

If Phil Walsh/one of the Scott brothers brought this up in the media, would there be a field day on here? Yes.

 

[FallingLiefs]

One of many intepretations that are weakened at various times. Will no doubt be enforced hard for a couple weeks when the umpring department hear of it. But it's not even the biggest one doing my head in.

Taking out the legs rule is a disgrace at the moment. I don't recall the last one paid in a game even though it occurs once to twice per match. That's just from a observer of the game not port adelaide specific supporter viewpoint though.

 

[StrappingTape]

The holding the ball is the only one shitting me, they seem to slowly be regressing into giving a player forever + any old type of disposal now but still randonly ping a guy who just got it and cant get rid of it