Urgent umpiring overhaul needed.

[NQ pie]

Why are collingwood allowed to throw the ball 20 times a game?

Salty

 

[Cleavy]

AFL: Everything is fine and the game has never been better. Look at the $$$$ we're getting from our media rights agreements.

 

[Hank Scorpion]

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.

 

[revo333]

I don't think it was as bad as the commentators made out, they struggle to know the rules half the time

I didn't think it was that bad either.

 

[The Speaker]

I doubt the umpires themselves are the problem. The problem is much more likely to be that the AFL has been messing around with the rules for over a decade, to the point where they are nonsensical.

 

[My Tilly]

I thought the umpiring was almost the worst I ever seen it.
Comical that even the players were calling the shots at stages.

Surely these umps are not making upwards of 150k per season?

 

[theyellowsash]

We need to crack down on the tacklers, not the players with the ball.

So you want netball?

 

[Bunk Moreland]

Was shithouse today and is shithouse in general, but I don’t think it changed the result. We started the game horribly, I think we were 30+ down at one stage. Can’t expect to just come back and win from there. It’s a four quarter game

 

[Father Jack]

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?

 

[Tap Tap Tapperoo]

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.

 

[masai]

Hocking needs to fall on his sword. Just another out of touch boomer and a scourge to the game.

Hocking & Christian, both doing their best ostrich impressions at present.

 

[its free real estate]

Normally a supporter has a meltdown about umpires straight after a game when his team loses, not when they win.

Which makes this OP more worthy of notice. If even the winners think the umpiring was shit, then it was shit.

 

[Jobe Watson]

I've never seen an entire field of players stop TWICE in one quarter during live play because they know that a free kick should have been given, only for it to not be.

Umpiring was disgraceful today.

 

[mike123]

So you want netball?

Are you just going to hop from one extreme to another or are you gonna make a valid point?

 

[Heeney2Franklin]

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.

 

[Ceanag]

Seriously guys ...it was only Essendon ..not much pity there I am afraid.

 

[its free real estate]

This is the problem with “letting the game go”.

The umpires did this today and it was bad.

 

[Heater39]

2 of Essendon's goals were from bullshit frees (Guelfi, Baguley) so no sympathy for them.

 

[PAFC_1870]

That booing after on such an occasion may actually finally show the AFL how much they need to fix it up.....

Who am I kidding...

 

[seanoff]

2 of Essendon's goals were from bullshit frees (Guelfi, Baguley) so no sympathy for them.

And Collingwood has their chances from appalling decisions but missed. Cox got possibly the worst free I’ve seen and missed. And 1 from a very very soft 50

 

[Tarkyn_24]

Normally a supporter has a meltdown about umpires straight after a game when his team loses, not when they win.

I think we can all acknowledge that that game was marred by nothing short of incompetence by the umpires.

Awful the whole way through, both ways.

 

[benneth]

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.

 

[benneth]

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.

 

[Skeparovic]

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.

 

[iameviljez]

That's not right, there's huge room for improvement.

Funny enough, nobody has managed it yet in 150 years of trying.