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First of all, this is not a thread to highlight a bad decision that happened to your club last week, year or decade. It is also not a forum to bag out certain umpires or umpiring standards in general. Quite simply, I have posted it to see what ideas are out there that might be of assistance to improving the standard of umpiring - you know, those 5% that they get wrong.
There can be no doubt that the game has sped up immeasurably since the introduction of 3 umpires. Many people suggest that we need more umpires to keep up with the pace of the game. Particularly with the hands in the back interpretation which has proven a disaster to police. I personally don't think that is the way to go as they will end up tripping over themselves.
My thoughts are, we have all this video technology available to us, we have an emergency umpire sitting in the stands - why not introduce an appeal system similar to tennis? Cricket and Rugby League have been brave enough to try and eliminate human error so why can't we?
My ideas is; similar to tennis, each team is granted 2 appeals per game if you get a free kick paid against you. If you think that free is wrong you can appeal to the umpire to go to the emergency umpire who has all the screens in front of him. Time on is called.
If the EU overturns the umpires decision a ball up is called. Appeal used.
If the EU confirms the decision, the free kick stands and a 50 metre penalty is added. Appeal used.
If the EU can not make a decision, the free kick stands and the appealing side keeps that appeal.
Would cost pretty much the cost of three lights on top of the EU's box and would not need to be as slow and contrived as cricket and RL's process.
Thoughts?
There can be no doubt that the game has sped up immeasurably since the introduction of 3 umpires. Many people suggest that we need more umpires to keep up with the pace of the game. Particularly with the hands in the back interpretation which has proven a disaster to police. I personally don't think that is the way to go as they will end up tripping over themselves.
My thoughts are, we have all this video technology available to us, we have an emergency umpire sitting in the stands - why not introduce an appeal system similar to tennis? Cricket and Rugby League have been brave enough to try and eliminate human error so why can't we?
My ideas is; similar to tennis, each team is granted 2 appeals per game if you get a free kick paid against you. If you think that free is wrong you can appeal to the umpire to go to the emergency umpire who has all the screens in front of him. Time on is called.
If the EU overturns the umpires decision a ball up is called. Appeal used.
If the EU confirms the decision, the free kick stands and a 50 metre penalty is added. Appeal used.
If the EU can not make a decision, the free kick stands and the appealing side keeps that appeal.
Would cost pretty much the cost of three lights on top of the EU's box and would not need to be as slow and contrived as cricket and RL's process.
Thoughts?