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What do umps earn per game or per year at AFL and SANFL level?
I think AFL umps have a flexible wage based on a number of things.

I have a vague memory that SANFL is like, a few hundred a game? Not much more than some country leagues, if at all. BHill for instance pay the fields $120 or $100 if there's enough available to run three in the middle.
 

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FFS Dwayno discussing with S Hocking that there needs to a statue erected of Eddie Betts in his pocket that can be unveiled on his retirement.
Also saying PAFC has been left behind in one area of growth, and that is AFLW.
Look, I'm sure Betts is a genuinely decent bloke off the field, but thanks to the absolute saturation of the media during the last week or two, I would be just as happy if I never saw his face on TV or in the news again. I've never been a fan of his on-field demeanour and that has just been reinforced seeing his goal celebration every time I turn the TV on atm. He was very lucky that they got to play against the Suns for his 300th, no way was he going to kick six against a team that brought any sort of pressure.

Just call me mean-spirited. ;)
 
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“Sorry mate ... LOOK AT MINSON AGAIN! **** HIM!!!” lol

Very NSFW language btw.
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So just read the AFL website article on the teams for tomorrow night.

Quote “the now annual ANZAC day eve game”

Since when does playing one previous game equal “annual”?

It means you have played once before. ONCE. Why didn’t they give the same privilege to North Melbourne and the Saints for the now annual Good Friday game or for Port playing in China.

Guess that Port, Norths, Suns and Saints don’t rate at AFL house.
 

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North thought they’d have Gaff as well, so whichever got the attention the other would run free. Instead they’ve just one line breaker able to be locked down. After their repeated failures to lure players North get no sympathy for poor list management.

Polec punches above his weight with his partner, so is he any worse then players leaving to chase a flag? He didn’t trash talk the club on the way out so it’s a meh from me.

He’ll enjoy the money and have no regrets right up until he has foot issues the rest of his life from playing and training on a concrete oval.
 
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The Booing outrage is bizarre & hey I rarely boo umpires even but how on earth do they expect to police it.
I think it was fair to boo a few weeks ago vs South Adelaide when we were down 15-0 in the free kick count in the first quarter.

That shit was rigged.
 
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North did this to themselves offering an elite footballer's salary to a B-grade one.
Marginally better then a B-Grader, but does need the heavy lifters/hard workers around him to thrive. In regards to being over paid, maybe, but Polec probably wouldn’t have left if Norf didn’t pay overs. Good luck to him.
 

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If the AFL wanted to improve the perception of umpires they wouldn’t pretend they never made mistakes (or at least very rarely admit they stuffed things). Players and coaches are under much more pressure and there’s no ‘don’t mention the war’ with them. The media get things wrong, they get called out.

I’m happy for the AFL to bump the pay and go professional, but include transparency as part of it. If a player gets dropped to the reserves the coaches will say they need to work on X, Y or Z. If an umpire puts in a few poor games, the umpires boss should say ‘<X> is going back to the VFL/WAFL/SANFL to work on their calls of <Y>’. Sure at first there’d be some ‘That cost us the game!’, but we already get that. I’d rather an organisation that isn’t afraid to go ‘Hmm, West Coast, Adelaide and Geelong get a much higher number of frees at home, regardless of performance, let’s look at this without assuming our umpires are perfect and it’s just a statistical fluke’.
 

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So just read the AFL website article on the teams for tomorrow night.

Quote “the now annual ANZAC day eve game”

Since when does playing one previous game equal “annual”?

It means you have played once before. ONCE. Why didn’t they give the same privilege to North Melbourne and the Saints for the now annual Good Friday game or for Port playing in China.

Guess that Port, Norths, Suns and Saints don’t rate at AFL house.

I came here to ask, why the **** does there need to be an ANZAC eve game, especially when ANZAC Day falls in the middle of the week? Presumably if AD is on a Wednesday they'll play a game on the Tuesday night - will those games be the start of a new round or the end of the previous round?; would two of the teams have to play the following Monday, even if that's not a public holiday? Madne$$.
 

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So just read the AFL website article on the teams for tomorrow night.

Quote “the now annual ANZAC day eve game”

Since when does playing one previous game equal “annual”?

It means you have played once before. ONCE. Why didn’t they give the same privilege to North Melbourne and the Saints for the now annual Good Friday game or for Port playing in China.

Guess that Port, Norths, Suns and Saints don’t rate at AFL house.
Name one annual game (set date / venue / opponent) that involves a non-Victorian club.

It’s still very much an expanded VFL.
 
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If the AFL wanted to improve the perception of umpires they wouldn’t pretend they never made mistakes (or at least very rarely admit they stuffed things). Players and coaches are under much more pressure and there’s no ‘don’t mention the war’ with them. The media get things wrong, they get called out.

I’m happy for the AFL to bump the pay and go professional, but include transparency as part of it. If a player gets dropped to the reserves the coaches will say they need to work on X, Y or Z. If an umpire puts in a few poor games, the umpires boss should say ‘<X> is going back to the VFL/WAFL/SANFL to work on their calls of <Y>’. Sure at first there’d be some ‘That cost us the game!’, but we already get that. I’d rather an organisation that isn’t afraid to go ‘Hmm, West Coast, Adelaide and Geelong get a much higher number of frees at home, regardless of performance, let’s look at this without assuming our umpires are perfect and it’s just a statistical fluke’.
I don't really think many umpires consider their reputation vital to their job. It doesn't come down to the tallies of free kicks given to teams as much as it does the obedience that the umpires show towards the rules in place.
 

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I came here to ask, why the **** does there need to be an ANZAC eve game, especially when ANZAC Day falls in the middle of the week? Presumably if AD is on a Wednesday they'll play a game on the Tuesday night - will those games be the start of a new round or the end of the previous round?; would two of the teams have to play the following Monday, even if that's not a public holiday? Madne$$.
Completely agree. And as a serving member, I do find it inappropriate that they are trying to cash in on ANZAC day.

Mason Cox’s tweet was 100% correct about band playing at half time during the Essendon vs Collingwood game.
 
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