Umpires

[raikkonen]

Exactly. The geelong player headed off, to his right. He himself closed up the space between him an Maric. Play on. And it did indeed kill the game. It is not just with the Crows of course, because there have been countless games where the crucial decision screws it all up for one team.

It is simply naive to argue that umpires can't win and lose games. In this case it was the difference between a well fought loss and a blow-out.

They werent tooo bad last night, just had a few erros but nothing like the St Kilda game. I think the Rutten non-mark was cancelled out when Blake clearly took a grab in the centre of the ground that wasnt paid, only for Dangerfield to receive the ball and kick a long goal from 50m. As for the Maric 50...pfft what a joke. The Geelong player moved towards him, and that is play on.

 

[Bone71]

Should've been play on.

The guy with the ball can run forward (or move backwards), if he takes more than a step left or right, then it's play on.

Umpires need to start paying that again.

Um, no. If you are within 5? meters of the player taking the kick then it's 50. The guy with the ball still needs the opportunity to play on in whichever direction he chooses. Maric was in the wrong place at the wrong time and he impacted on the player's choice to go inside before play on was called

 

[King Elvis]

Um, no. If you are within 5? meters of the player taking the kick then it's 50. The guy with the ball still needs the opportunity to play on in whichever direction he chooses. Maric was in the wrong place at the wrong time and he impacted on the player's choice to go inside before play on was called

Hasnt the rule always been that if you deviate from a straight line, it's play on?

 

[Bone71]

Hasnt the rule always been that if you deviate from a straight line, it's play on?

Yes, but the Geelong player didn't deviate until Maric was along side of him. Maric should not have been there in the first place............just asking for the ump to pay 50.

 

[Thylacinus]

Yup, definitely the best umpiring the Crow's have had for the home and away games so far in 09 by a country mile!

 

[Vader]

Maric probably shouldn't have been there in the first place. However, it's debatable whether he was in the 5m "protected area" until after the Geelong player moved off his line (moving closer to Maric and moving the protected area with him).

As it was, the umpire made a mistake. He should have blown "play on" as soon as the Geelong player went sideways. At this point, Maric would have been within his rights to be where he was. Unfortunately, the umpire was slow in doing so and Maric got caught out as a result. Given the failure to call play on in time, penalising Maric was the correct decision.

At the end of the day, it's Maric' fault. You play to the whistle. Unfortunately, that means you have to wait for them to blow "play on" in this situation before you can tackle the player. Maric failed to do so and paid the penalty.

 

[cmndstab]

Admittedly I'm only judging from looking at the replay on the screen on the other side of the ground, but it looked to me like Maric moved sideways but not over the boundaries of the 5m protected area. You have to think of it like a circle - if you move sideways, then you're allowed to move a bit forward and you'll still end up more than 5m away from them.


Perhaps when you study the replay more closely it shows he infringed but certainly at the ground looking at the big screen it looked like an incorrect decision to me.

 

[Stinger...]

Yes, but the Geelong player didn't deviate until Maric was along side of him. Maric should not have been there in the first place............just asking for the ump to pay 50.

100% correct.

Maric was clearly too close and you can clearly hear the umpire yelling at him to get out of the 5m protected zone. This happened at the same time Chapman decided to move off his line and of course Maric instinctively went to guard against him running off.

Maric being inside the 5m protected zone happened before Chapman moved off his line, so its clearly a 50m penalty.

Now you can argue that 50 metres is too harsh a penalty...a 25m penalty is something the AFL should consider IMO...

 

[WALL-e]

Yes, but the Geelong player didn't deviate until Maric was along side of him. Maric should not have been there in the first place............just asking for the ump to pay 50.

Chapman was swinging to his right just before Maric got there, you can see the 'wtf' look on Ivans face, he tried to get ouit, but is a bit of a Zombie boy some times.

If Chappy didn't swing out, there was no 50.

Sure Ivan was running past too close probably, but that's hardly a hangable offense.

 

[Vader]

100% correct.

Maric was clearly too close and you can clearly hear the umpire yelling at him to get out of the 5m protected zone. This happened at the same time Chapman decided to move off his line and of course Maric instinctively went to guard against him running off.

Maric being inside the 5m protected zone happened before Chapman moved off his line, so its clearly a 50m penalty.

Now you can argue that 50 metres is too harsh a penalty...a 25m penalty is something the AFL should consider IMO...

If he was inside the 5m zone before Chapman moved, with the umpire yelling at him to get out of it, then he absolutely deserved the 50m penalty.

 

[RooDog]

If he was inside the 5m zone before Chapman moved, with the umpire yelling at him to get out of it, then he absolutely deserved the 50m penalty.

thats what happened, happened just in front of where we were sitting. Straight away i sat there cringing knowing what was about to happen! Maric gives away to many stupid frees and this was another one.