Urgent umpiring overhaul needed.

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It's not a matter of umpire training - the game has become so muddled with constant tweaks and rule changes, so many of which are left to interpretation, it's near impossible for it to be umpired consistently and fairly.

We need to go through the laws of the game and decide which rules to keep, which rules we can clarify and reduce the amount of umpire interpretation required, and which rules are so unnecessary for the balance and spectacle of Aussie Rules that they can be done away with.

Then leave the game alone for at least a decade.
 

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What about when the players all stop from both sides stop playing because they both think it's a freekick? Umpiring was shocking and OP has a point regardless of the method
The one where the commentators crapped on for a minute or two about how there wasn't a handball and it should have been holding the ball, and then when the replay clearly showed a handball they then invented a rule that says the player can't go to ground before handballing?
 
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It would be great if at was at least acknowledged as a problem by the AFL, but it obviously won't happen.

The umpiring, and by extension the state of the rules, is the worst it has ever been. If someone could be bothered, I'm certain you could take any single game, run through the inconsistencies throughout the game and pick out at least 20+ decisions or non-decisions.
 

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Our game is a chaotic, 360-degree non-direction high-velocity stacks-on full contact sport. It's probably the hardest game to umpire that I can think of.

There are probably community noticeboards with this exact ad on them dating back to 1897 somewhere. It's old as the hills and it's trying to solve an unsolvable problem.
That's not right, there's huge room for improvement.
 
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Standards cannot improve because you aren't allowed to hold them accountable.

AFL knows umpiring is shit they dont care all they care is the ball going down one end to the other and lots of goals scored.
Exactly, the fans are the only ones that can hold them to account by hitting their bottom line but that will never happen. The irony.
 
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The one where the commentators crapped on for a minute or two about how there wasn't a handball and it should have been holding the ball, and then when the replay clearly showed a handball they then invented a rule that says the player can't go to ground before handballing?
Think if you run 10m, baulk and take on your opponent only to be run down from behind and get tackled to the ground that's ball any day of the week regardless of whether you get the handball out belatedly afterwards whilst on the ground.
 
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