So why are Richmond fans so upset that the game was not stopped and have been wanting to lynch the umpire for not stopping the game? you guys should be wanting to lynch your doctor for putting your player at risk.
For a start I wouldn’t want to be harshly judging a person whose focus was clearly on tending a very unwell player with 60,000 people screaming and a football game buzzing around him. He made an error, he signalled to the umpire to try to get the game stopped rather than making the stretcher signal. It is just an error, that I have no doubt the club will review and learn from.
But forget Richmond fans being upset at the umpires for not stopping the game. Almost all commentary at the time and subsequently was that the umpires should have “used common sense” and stopped the game. Which they should have. Not so much for the fairness in terms of match result. Just to assist with the care of a clearly stricken player, and to take some pressure off the medical staff. Do you not think the umpires should have stopped the game until Prestia had been cleared from the ground?
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