Dale Thomas Umpire Abuse

[Herne Hill Hammer]

Your league has a send-off rule? How does it work- is it like a red card in soccer or more of a temporary sin-bin arrangement?

I'm talking 32 years ago. No cards just told to get off and why. The interchange steward would keep details. Off for the rest of the game.

 

[purplearmy]

What happens on the field ends up off the field via tv and social media so it's a really stupid argument.

And the bottom line is abusing umpires is the number 1 reason why people don't umpire.

So until heroes like you are prepared to umpire the games, suck it up.

And why aren't umpires allowed to let off steam, by calling Daisy Thomas a pretentious prick whose team is ******* ****. Perhaps he could ask Brendan Bolton when he reckons he'll get the sack on the way off the field while he's at it.

What happens on the field is on the field - the fact it’s televised proves this is only a public relations issue. The AFL is petrified of being called racist, sexist and all the rest, thus the rush to give these joke fines. You don’t mind, but this stuff, just like Israel Folau’s treatment, only alienates an already frustrated viewership. It’s why players don’t say anything and the brand is now so bland. No characters, no flair. Only outrage.

 

[Blues_Man]

What was Hird's punishment again?

So the boundary umpire warned GWS that they were about to give away a free kick? I'd say that's undue favouritism. Can understand it being perceived as cheating.

Hird named the Umpire on national TV ...hardly the same

 

[Kick with the wind]

Why would you go at a boundary umpire though? They aint even the problem

There is a growing group of b/umps who throw the ball back into play illegally. At point of actually putting the ball back into play, we have them turning and facing the players contesting the throw in. One of the easiest basics of umpiring is throwing the ball back into play and we have jokers changing the whole simple action of it .Who on earth has been teaching them that?

 

[Kick with the wind]

Calling an ump a cheat strikes at the integrity of the game

No issue if he is found guilty that he misses weeks because of it.

Unless he of course he can justify his comments in fact or indeed there is some further context to it

Just cant call them cheats.. There's a myriad of other things to say but not cheat