Very rarely. But when they do they go whack. $30k and $20k fines in 2017.
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You know what, betting on umpire frees might be the only way to fix up their blatant bias at different games.
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If anything he should get an apology, like Ratten did the week before, and then a pile of unearned frees in front of goals for the Melbourne game. Fair’s fair, right?
You're wrong here. Westhoff did make an attempt to keep the ball in play. He tried to slow down before he crossed the line. He was unsuccessful in that attempt. You'd have a point if Westhoff had kept running full pace at the line, but he didn't.
Andrew Stephens is not an inexperienced umpire. He's been in the AFL umpiring system since 2012 and umpired his first Senior game in 2014. He'd done 111 games to the end of 2019.
Great analysis.So I had some time to kill and I wanted to test my theory that most of the frees seemed to be in our defensive half. Like the whistle just disappeared when we were attacking and then came out in force when St Kilda were in their forward half.
Keep in mind we had 36 Inside 50s to their 41, so they didn't dominate the forward entries.
There were 15-21 free kicks St Kilda's way.
St Kilda had 5 frees inside their attacking 50 to our 0.
St Kilda had 12 frees and 2 50m penalties in their attacking half to our 6 attacking half frees and 0 50m penalties.
St Kilda kicked 4 goals from frees to our 0.
To simplify it, St Kilda are always kicking to the left of the map.
Here is a breakdown of what the frees were, i've mainly left my opinion of the free kick out of it, because i'm not trying to argue that specific frees weren't there, i'm trying to argue that the whistle came out a lot more in advantageous positions for the Saints. I've also named the Port player involved for the most part, whether they got the free or gave it away. Saints frees in red, ours in black.
1. Q1 2.17 – Ruck free, Ladhams holds Marshall – GOAL
2. Q1 3.48 – Clurey deliberate out of bounds – King kicks it across the face for no score
3. Q1 7.29 – Holding – ruck infringement, Ladhams
4. Q1 9.35 – Blocking/Holding after the kick – Jonas – 50 immediately paid
5. Q1 14.48 – High in the marking contest - Clurey
6. Q1 15.27 – Jonas holding in the marking contest – Parker shanks it for no score
7. Q1 16.39 – Push out in a marking contest – Wines
8. Q1 17.34 – High in a marking contest – Ladhams
9. Q1 19.30 – Holding in a marking contest – Marshall marked the ball anyway
10. Q1 21.41 – Throw – we take the advantage
11. Q1 23.56 – Amon taken high after a centre bounce
12. Q1 24.11 – HTB Ebert
13. Q2 2.59 – HTB Ebert
14. Q2 4.58 – HTB Houston
15. Q2 5.31 – Ruck free, holding – Ladhams
16. Q2 9.58 – HTB Westhoff
17. Q2 15.46 – Ryder held by Jonas – GOAL
18. Q2 23.00 – SPP throw – 50 because DBJ kicks it as the whistle blows – GOAL
19. Q3 2.20 - Front on contact/arm chop – Ebert
20. Q3 3.16 – High tackle, I think against Houston
21. Q3 6.55 – High tackle by Gray after a mark wasn't paid not 15.
22. Q3 9.16 – Holding, pull of the jumper – SPP
23. Q3 9.50 – Holding in a ruck contest – Ladhams
24. Q3 12.31 – Ruck infringement – Ladhams
25. Q3 1301 – High tackle at a stoppage for Ryder
26. Q3 13.58 – Holding the man after Mayes tackled Parker who fumbled the ball – advantage paid, GOAL
27. Q3 18.01 – HTB Marshall
28. Q3 22.58 – The deliberate against Westhoff
29. Q3 23.32 – Push in a marking contest – Georgiadis
30. Q3 24.31 – Deliberate against Jones
31. Q4 2.29 – High tackle, directly after Ladhams was slid into
32. Q4 8.11 – Holding after Westhoff drags a player to the ground who drops the ball in the tackle ffs
33. Q4 11.44 – Ruck infringement which just wasn't there in any way shape or form against Ladhams
34. Q4 14.01 – Holding against Butters after he drags a Saints player to ground after they drop the ball
35. Q4 21.58 – Ruck infringement against Ladhams
36. Q4 25.18 – Push in the back - Boak
I’ve always wondered why betting agencies don’t have odds for amount of free kicks. You can bet on nearly anything else.
Andrew Stephens is not an inexperienced umpire. He's been in the AFL umpiring system since 2012 and umpired his first Senior game in 2014. He'd done 111 games to the end of 2019.
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If they’re already cheating without these markets existing then all this will serve to do is give them more of a reason to cheat, which we all know they will.
