Autopsy AFL 2020 Round 12 - Dockers v Blues Sat August 15th 8:10pm AEST (Optus) Match Highlights in OP

[WilloTree]

Regarding down field free kicks...

"The free kick is awarded at the spot where the kick or handpass lands or is first possessed, to the nearest player to the spot (unless the disposal is backwards, or the ball lands out of bounds or through for a behind, in which case the free kick is awarded to the infringed player at the spot of the infringement"

Uh oh.

Holy cow!

Massive blue by that ump.

Pardon the pun.

 

[VicBased]

We can’t always be perennially kissed on our d*cks like west coke eagles at their home ground.

You do realise we are stone cold last for frees. Stop living in the past numbnuts.

 

[kickballfoot]

So why was Carlton's free kick given downfield but both Freo's kicks were brought back 50 metres. The kick should have been brought back.

Blatant cheating

The free kicks you are referring to where paid for push in the back as the players kicked the ball, not after they disposed of the ball. So they correctly brought the ball back.
The last 2 free kicks paid to Carlton were absolute stinkers though.

 

[revo333]

Regarding down field free kicks...

"The free kick is awarded at the spot where the kick or handpass lands or is first possessed, to the nearest player to the spot (unless the disposal is backwards, or the ball lands out of bounds or through for a behind, in which case the free kick is awarded to the infringed player at the spot of the infringement"

Uh oh.

That is a fairly big mistake!

 

[amazingjoshy]

Regarding down field free kicks...

"The free kick is awarded at the spot where the kick or handpass lands or is first possessed, to the nearest player to the spot (unless the disposal is backwards, or the ball lands out of bounds or through for a behind, in which case the free kick is awarded to the infringed player at the spot of the infringement"

Uh oh.

If that's the other way round the VFL media call for all sorts of bans on Optus games for the future.

Absolutely rorted the purples

 

[Beer n Skittles]

You're right, an umpire assisted win over a mediocre side like Fremantle is nothing to be proud about.

Exactly, weird that you can recognise it when it's not your team. Or did you not celebrate last week either?

 

[Numero Uno]

This game further reinforces that WA umpiring is woeful.

all 3 umpires from Victoria

 

[PerthBoy86]

I love having a laugh at Freo as much as the next West Coast supporter (probably moreso), but that was just wrong. If that call was made against my team I would crack the sh*ts hard.

I agree the decision was wrong, and two wrongs don't make a right, but imo it evens out an early shocking decision leading to a Freo goal. So neither call was right but in a way you could argue it's sort of fair. If that dodgy htb wasn't paid I'd feel for Freo more.

 

[The Edukator]

Better team on the night won

 

[big bootaaaaah]

Ok just saw the free, it was for a push in the front by Brayshaw, silly by him considering all game the umpires showed that pushes in the back are now legal, logic should have told him a push in the front is the new back.

 

[bzparkes]

This game further reinforces that WA umpiring is woeful.

They're Victorian umpires mate.

 

[Blues_Man]

Great kick from Newnes. But wtf are those umpiring decisions? Jesus christ

yes those two goals you got from umpiring decisions were astounding

 

[Great8]

Freo should definitely pursue it further and the umpire should be sacked immediately

 

[imperial_oz]

There's plenty of horrible decisions in every game that can happen at anytime. Just because this resulted in a shot at goal after the siren why is it any worse than any other terrible decision and deserve more scrutiny?

Thats easy to answer. Freo had two similar free kicks in the last quarter and neither were paid downfield. They were brought back to where the infringement took place. Carlton's was paid down field when the rules required it to be returned to where the infringement occurred because he kicked it out bounds.

The maggots didn't even attempt to hide their bias. They should be sacked but they'll be rewarded for that effort.

 

[kickballfoot]

Amazing kick from Newnes.
An even more amazing display of inept umpiring.

 

[Numero Uno]

We can’t always be perennially kissed on our d*cks like west coke eagles at their home ground.

sure sure

 

[juss]

Well if you take out the two shockers in the first quarter paid to Freo directly in front of goal, then the one Newnes kicks after the siren... we still win. Take the good with the bad with umpires Blues supporters have been told

Accept the gift, acknowledge the robbery, take the 4 points and run. The wrong team won because of the umps.

 

[Gods_Son23]

could you be more clueless

Like COVID doesn't exist.

 

[Ron The Bear]

Free shouldn't have been downfield, according to the rules.

Edit: They must've changed the rules since I last looked. Free can be paid closest to where it went out of bounds if it doesn't disadvantage the team which has the free.

 

[nylexbandit]

How stupid by Taberner to paddle the ball deliberately out of bounds?

Players need to learn the umpire is always going to pay that deliberate.

except for 3.5 quarters of the game the umps let that sort of shit go and focus on punishing kicks that go 40 m down the ground before going out

 

[WaywardSonSon]

Momentum doesn’t matter when you collect someone high or in the back, so why would it matter in a late hit? Free kick was 100% there. Literally don’t hit someone after they’ve kicked the ball, it’s not that hard.

People are more referring to the "deliberate out of bounds" adjudication. If you paddle the ball in front of you, such that it is parallel with the boundary line, I'm not sure you're attempting to deliberately tap the ball out of bounds. Couple that with the bounce of a Sherrin being pretty damn unpredictable at the best of times, and you have a farcical decision.

 

[Aishole]

There's plenty of horrible decisions in every game that can happen at anytime. Just because this resulted in a shot at goal after the siren why is it any worse than any other terrible decision and deserve more scrutiny?

Mate, check my posting history. I’ve been complaining about the umpiring long before this.

It just hopefully brings more attention to it, because it quite literally ended up directly costing a team 4 premiership points.

The umpiring is obviously appalling across the board, but this is just the pinnacle of it, and exemplifies/emphasises WHY it needs to be fixed instantly. Umpiring incompetence simply cannot be a factor in close games. And this shows why.

 

[SBYM]

Oh wells.

 

[Tackle Bag]

Momentum doesn’t matter when you collect someone high or in the back, so why would it matter in a late hit? Free kick was 100% there. Literally don’t hit someone after they’ve kicked the ball, it’s not that hard.

Applying your logic, every attempted smother that is not successful and contacts the kicker After the ball moves forward is a free kick. It’s never been interpreted that way.

 

[Blues_Man]

He threw it to him, even more farcical then the other decisions

You obviously have no idea what the rules are ..perhaps you should consider umpiring ?