You'll never guess what the 2021 free kick differential chart looks like

[doggies ftw]

Looks like we will get UcKed by the umps this year as well.

We’ve started strong makes you think that maybeeeee there’s more to it than sheer bias, nah **** that obviously it’s rigged

 

[Dazb86]

We’ve started strong makes you think that maybeeeee there’s more to it than sheer bias, nah fu** that obviously it’s rigged

The real reason we've historically been a financially struggling club is because of back alleyway brown paperbag deals to the boys in green (yellow?)

 

[JoondalupJ]

Lose the free kick count, lose the game, classic Dogs.

Whats your honest opinion of the 50m penalties for back talking? What if they were 15m for being rude to an umpire, ( yes that is NOT a joke "rude") in a game of clashes and pressure, Melb Dogs was not too bad, but Rich v Carl both sides got rheemed with it and quite a few goals from them, I just think that back talk is expected, umps just give it back, free kick counts mean nothing , its where and why the frees are given and sometimes what for, we are muting, our footballers, yet they put microphones on these umpires. If I have to hear an umpire belittling and threatening footballers then that is not entertainment, the adjudicators should not be heard, and the AFL should understand this very very major point about what has happened in this game these days, that is that the grey rules have created a frustration never before seen, where they are so an EACH/WAY guess in some cases players are simply frustrated and giving them 50 metre penalties doesn't grow character, it grows resentment and that is what I have seen in AFL for 18 years, and I can't help but wonder who actually follows the game and sees this and thinks it is OK?

I remember Goldspink and Hawthorn , I blamed his talk down attitude to players for the "line in the sand" game, he was provocative and should have shut up, he went eventually, but a shocking umpire.Imagine that type of bloke umpiring now?

Last night I saw two or three frees that I was baffled by until the quicker this year it appears, replay after the event showed definite free kicks, so I have to back off a bit about how TV can distort what you see, makes me wonder about tribunal rulings from television shots?

But mainly the things I've seen change , and instead of starting an argument I will ask what yourself and any other people on BF really think about these few things that drive me insane
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First do you think a free is warranted if a footballer kicks a ball out on the full by accident of the back of his calf muscle from 30 or 40 cm (not metres) out in a contest, the OOTF rule is unfair, Or just plain bad when deliberate is called, when people watching know they have bounced the wrong way, or come off the side of the boot its unfair, and mistakes with that rule are terrible.
How do you feel about the punching the arm rule, when the defending opponent has no where else to go but to try and spoil,
well he does have somewhere else to go, he could stand back and watch. In that split second how is it fair for an umpire to call out that kind of incidental touching? Coach would love that ???
There are more but no one on here really has any ideas, and it actually has happened, every week some petty free is given away that changes a game the flow is stopped by umpires calls, and over technical rubbish invented by the AFL ruins the game.
Here's another, How can you penalise for anything , two ruckmen going for the ball in a bounce, from centre, the most important bounce for the next battle to each teams forward line, never ever should frees be paid to Ruckmen for infringemments, that, sometimes they don't even know they've committed, like Max Gawn said to an umpire once after getting free kicked against "its performing a ruck skill ump" or some comment like that, heard him on air from the field.

Free kicks for minor clashes by two giants, is a joke and the centre bounce is sacred, what ever tactic the Rucks use it should be free and compitetive, of course a blatant really bad action has to be freed but when Rucks get frees at throw ins and centre bounces I can say most times I have no idea what the infringement is and there are lots of them. ,
And probably the other two umpires watching aren't sure either, but the AFL has brought them in.

There are more but you others may think of , and some may not give a stuff, but games are changed by umpires too often these days, that is a plain fact.

Yet no one seems to have the guts to bring it up, on TV footy, or on here, and I have been complaining to others on here for 16 years I can remember saying this years ago, a contradiction in interpretation by different umpires is CAUSED BY RULES THAT SIMPLY ARE UNFAIR AND COME FROM AN INDIVIDUALS PERCEPTION IT SHOULD BE BLACK AND WHITE AND EASILY PICKED BUT GREY RULES RULE THE AUSTRALIAN RULES
A push in the back is a push in the back, and arm punch is a spoil, and takes competition out of a one on one marking contest.
One thing Wednesday night and Thursday night showed was the goal kicking set shot seemed to improve immensely.

Any moderators got an opinion, and the caps this time are not me yelling they are pointing out clearly what I mean so some on BF don't get offended. My tone is nothing ike what some of you think. Enjoy the debate.

 

[Bird Man]

Cerra mastered the drop the knees on the ground to milk in the back.... In the back rule is as grey as the holding the ball rule.

 

[Obeanie1]

Nah, the apology you're thinking of is for for 2006 premiership. Although I don't think it was umpire related.

Because Ben Cousins was the only player to snort coke who's won a premiership?

That list got bigger last season I can tell you.

Still a disgrace he was crucified and burned at the stake when other AFL marketing superstars were protected by the AFL. Some even joke about it in books post retirement. And another is about to kick 1000 goals and have statues errected.

 

[smasha]

With the "all you can eat" smorgasboard of 50's served up to Carlton ,we are gonna be bottom again.

Then the 50 interpretations of our game mysteriously disappeared for the following night's match.

Seems to be a trend.

RFC get the full brunt of new rule interpretations,then the other clubs get the barrel of swallowed whistles.

Some things never change.

Saints are next in line.

Hayes takes a mark,gets barrelled over,umpire swallows his whistle then waltzes the Pies up the other end for a goal.

 

[Cripps 'n' Blue Bloods]

Cerra mastered the drop the knees on the ground to milk in the back.... In the back rule is as grey as the holding the ball rule.

I wasn't a fan of that and hope he doesn't continue to do it, but there was some poorly missed ones the other way too.
Like Lynch just shoving Weitering in the back and getting the crumbs behind for an easy goal.
Dusty's one at the end of the 3rd was a bit iffy too. Forwards never get a free for that much contact. Guarantee if it was Lynch or McKay it wouldn't have been blown.

 

[Grand Uncle Horace]

Expecting a massive jump in the free differential for Footscray on Thursday night.

I watched a lot of the Footscray v Bloods ressies game and some Umps (father -son selections?) put their hand up for selection in the seniors.

 

[Achy Blakey Heart]

Expecting a massive jump in the free differential for Footscray on Thursday night.

I watched a lot of the Footscray v Bloods ressies game and some Umps (father -son selections?) put their hand up for selection in the seniors.

Umm....what????

 

[Grand Uncle Horace]

Umm....what????

Admit to laying the satire on pretty thick. There was a large differential in frees their way in the reserves game. I knew as I am certain you did that it would be the same last night.

Dogs players are trained to get frees and some excel. Umps do not pick up the throws, dropping of knees etc. It also affects their opposition who get frustrated and 2nd guess themselves..

The reaming we copped was to be totally expected.

 

[thegameisfixed]

Does anyone who watch the Syd V NM game think it was officiated impartially?

 

[nylexbandit]

Does anyone who watch the Syd V NM game think it was officiated impartially?

Thought it was a bit biased to the Swans as usual but nothing outrageous

 

[Gimmeafree]

Does anyone who watch the Syd V NM game think it was officiated impartially?

Yep Dogs fans