If the rule is sprigs up, the umpires call was correct.
What does the rule say?
What does the rule say?
Follow along with the video below to see how to install our site as a web app on your home screen.
Note: This feature may not be available in some browsers.
I dont know how the tv vision was as i guess it depends on the camera angle, but it was right in front of where i was sitting and it didnt look like it was anything like a Toby-esque flying grasshopper kick, thats why everyone was going nuts.If the rule is sprigs up, the umpires call was correct.
What does the rule say?
His sprigs were up. Not much force.I dont know how the tv vision was as i guess it depends on the camera angle, but it was right in front of where i was sitting and it didnt look like it was anything like a Toby-esque flying grasshopper kick, thats why everyone was going nuts.
May as well kiss goodbye the old school speccy
I dont know how the tv vision was as i guess it depends on the camera angle, but it was right in front of where i was sitting and it didnt look like it was anything like a Toby-esque flying grasshopper kick, thats why everyone was going nuts.
May as well kiss goodbye the old school speccy
If people cant see the difference between a Toby Greene eyes on the player full front on kick to the face of an oncoming opponent and Howe going for a leg up speccy from behind eyes on nothing but the ball and the leg was up for momentum (and still not enough force so that the opposition player fell forward to the ground) then i dont know, obviously they are happy with the over officiated over-sanitised rolling scrum that the games become.Everyone lose their minds when Greene did this in someone's chest last year, not sure why it's different in the back.
Fair call ump got it right.
Amusing the outrage on social media, mostly by the same fool's who demanded Tobes be rubbed out.
You’re unbelievable. How bias can you get?
What a disgraceful decision against Howe. This isn’t soccer, it’s not just studs up is bad full stop. It’s been a mark for 150 years and the rule bought in still allows for this mark to be paid.
Terrible terrible umpire, absolutely no idea!
This decision was a load of bollocks. This was nothing like the Greene studs up idiocy. What is going on with this game? The AFL have had a very poor season, they are under siege and have lost the plot completely. The umpire shouldn't be blamed for this one, the rule is insane!
When hearing about the rule I was under the impression that this style of mark was illegal, but after reading the rule, It is so vague.Here is the rule
HahaReading "sprigs" is giving me anxiety.
Ridiculous. The 'Greene' rule was brought to stop front on using your boots studs to fend off a player and potentially injure them. Where in this incident was Howe 'likely to cause injury' according to the rule?? The decision yesterday was not in the spirit of why this rule was brought in.
Cant wait for the next one when a player steps on someones shoulders to take a hanger but because his stops were up it will be deemed a free kick to player used as a ladder. AFL you are wrecking this once great game, bit by bit.
"studs up" is #AFLidiom bastardising the association football (soccer) term encompassing the sliding dangerous tackle which usually perpendicular to knees. Sure there will be non-sliding examples.sprigs up