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You can't please everyone. Maybe it can be something voted on by the other coaches - they would have the best idea who is hard to coach against. Having a netball coach of the year but not a football one is strange.
Wow - not sure people could be upset if the award was voted by the people in the know. Maybe the tin foil hat brigade could find some sort of league conspiracy - but that is a stretch even for them!
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Although my names not Doona, i think the bloke at Rockbank has done a good job, they were very disciplined this year and in the mix, it was the coach's first year & i recon that club has turned the corner.
......... I guess that must come with Power & Influence !!! 
I've got it !
Lets call the "Melton Toyota Player of the Year" Award, The "Melton Toyota Jamie Cuffe Medal" ! I think its voted on by the Coaches, so it has a massive amount of real credibility & merit to it !
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Hey Omni, why don't you put your hand up for that job. I sense a bit of lovin' between you and the men in orange at the moment!
Good post Omni. I actually had a chat this evening with a RDFL umpy who stated his dislike of paying 50 m penalties where a player may have overstepped the mark by a couple of cm and gets penalised by a 50 m penalty that quite often results in a shot at goal from the goal line. For my two bobs worth I reckon they should bring in a 20m penalty for minor infringements such as this which don't have such an impact on the game. The same should count when a player queries an umpires decision without being abusive, I've seen players get 50m penalties for this indiscretion. The umpire is an official and should not be abused but should have the option of a 20m penalty for minor indiscretions.Hahahaha, nice one Blueboy. I genuinely got a little chuckle out of that one pal.
Actually I really do think the standard of Umpiring this season has been pretty good on the whole (I don't know how many times I have to say that !) as opposed to past years.
As I said earlier I just think that a few of our younger guys are trying a little too hard of late to get noticed though. And the way they are doing that is to pay the softest of free kicks in the Forward 50. Sunbury got half their goals score on Saturday (4 from 8) as a direct result of soft free's inside fifty. (It nearly cost Diggers the game !) One was actually from a "Falcon" after the ball glanced off Brett Cartons fist & hit the Sunbury player in the face........Umpire caught outa position pays a free for high contact !!!
Then on Sunday the very first goal of the game was the softest of softest holding the man decisions you'd ever see, right at the top of the goal square. The problem is there was another 50 or so of those throughout the game that DONT get paid !!!
Look, we have some very very fine umpires at present. Mr Orange ump is good, Oldman Rathy goes about his business with a minimum of fuss & I really love Addam Icely's style of Umpiring. Mr O'Keefe should take a very long hard look at how Addam goes about his job because that is HOW everyone should approach the gig of Umpiring !
He lets the game take its natural flow, only pays the OBVIOUS free kicks, doesn't "grandstand" or "showboat" ........
And he is C O N S I S T E N T with his decision making. Hell ! I'd be more than happy if these three blokes got the Grand Final !
Oh,.. & whilst I'm on the subject of Mr O'Keefe, I guess I owe him a bit of an apology. There does appear in fact to be a "Twin" running around out there......& whats more he did a very very good job in the reserves match on Sunday.
But I still hold firm on that other mental defective that he gave a gig too in the first week of Finals...... Michael, he is your worst Umpire on the list BAR none. Don't just take my word for it, ask ANY breathing human being on the planet Earth !!! & they will tell you as much.
Hahahaha, nice one Blueboy. I genuinely got a little chuckle out of that one pal.
Actually I really do think the standard of Umpiring this season has been pretty good on the whole (I don't know how many times I have to say that !) as opposed to past years.
As I said earlier I just think that a few of our younger guys are trying a little too hard of late to get noticed though. And the way they are doing that is to pay the softest of free kicks in the Forward 50. Sunbury got half their goals score on Saturday (4 from 8) as a direct result of soft free's inside fifty. (It nearly cost Diggers the game !) One was actually from a "Falcon" after the ball glanced off Brett Cartons fist & hit the Sunbury player in the face........Umpire caught outa position pays a free for high contact !!!
Then on Sunday the very first goal of the game was the softest of softest holding the man decisions you'd ever see, right at the top of the goal square. The problem is there was another 50 or so of those throughout the game that DONT get paid !!!
Look, we have some very very fine umpires at present. Mr Orange ump is good, Oldman Rathy goes about his business with a minimum of fuss & I really love Addam Icely's style of Umpiring. Mr O'Keefe should take a very long hard look at how Addam goes about his job because that is HOW everyone should approach the gig of Umpiring !
He lets the game take its natural flow, only pays the OBVIOUS free kicks, doesn't "grandstand" or "showboat" ........
And he is C O N S I S T E N T with his decision making. Hell ! I'd be more than happy if these three blokes got the Grand Final !
Oh,.. & whilst I'm on the subject of Mr O'Keefe, I guess I owe him a bit of an apology. There does appear in fact to be a "Twin" running around out there......& whats more he did a very very good job in the reserves match on Sunday.
But I still hold firm on that other mental defective that he gave a gig too in the first week of Finals...... Michael, he is your worst Umpire on the list BAR none. Don't just take my word for it, ask ANY breathing human being on the planet Earth !!! & they will tell you as much.
.. according to our stat sheets.. that was the only one for the game.. loving the post though, mate! 
In all due respect .. the last goal was the only one from a free kick for the Kangas .. sorry mate
In all due respect .. the last goal was the only one from a free kick for the Kangas .. sorry mate
