- May 1, 2005
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- RICHMOND
- Banned
- #1
What is Football Vic doing about the hopeless umpires in the TAC Cup?
This is the finals series and I would have thought we would have the best of the umpires from the entire season, but if they are the best then I have certainly seen the worst throughout the season.
It appears that some players are starting to realise that the umpires are not making decisions and nor are they reporting players, so they are starting to crash and bash knowing they have a good chance of getting away with it.
These hopeless umpires do not control the game. So much so that when an incident occurs they appear afraid to do something to stop it happening again.
They do not make timely decisions. So much so that stacks on the mill are occuring every five minutes.
They do not report or send off players who have obviously transgressed. So much so that the thugs are getting bolder and bolder, instead of being sent off to cool their heals.
They are ignoring loud blatant racial slurs and swearing that everyone else on the ground can plainly hear.
They only prance around and look like umpires.
If you put one of them on a fish hook the fish wouldn't even look at them.
Big packs keep forming every time the ball goes to ground because the umpires take so long to blow the whistle to either pay a free or ball it up. Every player within 20 metres just piles on until the umpire finally does something. The thugs jump in with their knees and then we get a fight.
I have been watching three seasons of TAC footy and I have seen more fights in the last two weeks than for that entire three seasons.
Some ugly incidents in the third quarter last week at Lavington, including headbutting in direct vision of a central umpire, bashing a small player's head into the ground repeatedly in direct vision of a central umpire and a player being punched in the jaw in front of an umpire led to several fights and skirmishes in the last quarter. An alleged racial slur went supposedly unheard.
Footy Vic apparently investigated last week's match and watched the video but nothing was seen because the cameraman stayed with the footy action. No action was taken on the racial vilification because the umpires said they did not hear it. The small guy that was vilified heard it and unfortunately it appears that retribution was extracted later in the game. If the umpires had acted in the first instance then the retaliation would not have occurred.
Today some ugly incidents in direct vision of the umpires went unreported. And the game got dirtier and dirtier towards the finish.
Please Footy Vic, sort out the umpires before someone is seriously injured by a sniper or thug just going in willy-nilly to clean someone up after seeing that the umpires won't make a decision.
This is the finals series and I would have thought we would have the best of the umpires from the entire season, but if they are the best then I have certainly seen the worst throughout the season.
It appears that some players are starting to realise that the umpires are not making decisions and nor are they reporting players, so they are starting to crash and bash knowing they have a good chance of getting away with it.
These hopeless umpires do not control the game. So much so that when an incident occurs they appear afraid to do something to stop it happening again.
They do not make timely decisions. So much so that stacks on the mill are occuring every five minutes.
They do not report or send off players who have obviously transgressed. So much so that the thugs are getting bolder and bolder, instead of being sent off to cool their heals.
They are ignoring loud blatant racial slurs and swearing that everyone else on the ground can plainly hear.
They only prance around and look like umpires.
If you put one of them on a fish hook the fish wouldn't even look at them.
Big packs keep forming every time the ball goes to ground because the umpires take so long to blow the whistle to either pay a free or ball it up. Every player within 20 metres just piles on until the umpire finally does something. The thugs jump in with their knees and then we get a fight.
I have been watching three seasons of TAC footy and I have seen more fights in the last two weeks than for that entire three seasons.
Some ugly incidents in the third quarter last week at Lavington, including headbutting in direct vision of a central umpire, bashing a small player's head into the ground repeatedly in direct vision of a central umpire and a player being punched in the jaw in front of an umpire led to several fights and skirmishes in the last quarter. An alleged racial slur went supposedly unheard.
Footy Vic apparently investigated last week's match and watched the video but nothing was seen because the cameraman stayed with the footy action. No action was taken on the racial vilification because the umpires said they did not hear it. The small guy that was vilified heard it and unfortunately it appears that retribution was extracted later in the game. If the umpires had acted in the first instance then the retaliation would not have occurred.
Today some ugly incidents in direct vision of the umpires went unreported. And the game got dirtier and dirtier towards the finish.
Please Footy Vic, sort out the umpires before someone is seriously injured by a sniper or thug just going in willy-nilly to clean someone up after seeing that the umpires won't make a decision.
