AFLW 2024 - Round 10 - Chat, game threads, injury lists, team lineups and more.
But the umpires do go out of their way. It's interesting that the hands in the back rule seems to have gone out the window recently and so many players are getting away with it, but not Franklin.
Hawk fans don't brag about this.
This whole "unsociable football" thing is the biggest pile of faeces ever. It's a media creation. They're the only people who bang on about this crap. Hawthorn play hard, but fair. They're no different to 50% of teams. They probably don't stage for free kicks as well as other teams.I don't whinge about the frees against. All I ask for is that the rules are umpired consistently from week to week. I'd like our games to umpired the same as other games. Hawthorn tackle hard like the Sydney Swans, but they get penalised more often for very technical infringements. No doubt, this is due to all this horseshit about us playing "unsociable" football.
I agree. False perceptions can definitely weigh against a football side. I've seen it happen before, to the Western Bulldogs in 1997. They were continually crucified by umpires and tribunal for playing "unsociable football". It never registered with umpires that they were the AFL's most skillful team and they weren't the "bad boys" that the media continually portrayed them as.
Brent Renouf wraps his arms around Cox at a centre bounce. Umpire blows his whistle, every single player in the centre square stops and looks at the umpire as he explains the free kick, with the exception of Daniel Kerr. Fully 2 or 3 seconds elapses while the umpire details the infringement, while Kerr runs away from the circle to the point of the square, when the umpire then calls "play on, advantage" Absolutely ridiculous. Here is a revolutionary idea: When the umpire sees a free kick, he just signals the free without whistling. He waits 2 seconds to see if there is an advantage unfolding. If there is, the ball game continues without any need for talk or whistle. If there is no advantage, then blow the whistle and award the free kick.
Every junior footballer in the country is told to play to the whistle. If you don't hear the whistle son, then you keep playing. If you hear the whistle, you stop. What is currently happening is that umpires are creating advantages for teams, rather than just allowing them to happen. It is wrong.
A player hears the whistle, but doesn't stop, because he has learnt that the umpires will pay ridiculous advantages sometimes, and if the free kick is for his side, then he might be a chance for a goal. He doesn't know which of the myriad of technical frees the umpire has plucked on this occasion. He hits Roughead on the tit with a beautifully weighted pass, and as he is heading back into defence, cursing the 50m penalty he has just cost his team for kicking the ball away after an opposition free kick has been awarded (the hypothetical player is again Jordan Lewis, the infringement was against Rob Campbell for pushing Cox in the back at a ball up
They are sending mixed messages. It is wrong.
I shouldn't have mentioned Buddy in the title of this thread. I only did it for the comedy value, with an umpire seemingly heckling Lance as he lined up for goal. I thought it was funny. But this thread isn't about Lance Franklin's rough ride at the hands of the umps (nor Jordan Lewis' for that matter). This thread is about how the game is umpired. I think there are some alterations that need to be made to improve the game.
I think the umpires are a team just like any other. They are coached, they are in or out of form, they are human and make mistakes. I'm not trying to umpire bash or anything, I am after a better collective performance from the umpiring team.
Please, add your own suggestions, improve mine, whatever, I'm interested to hear what you think (especially from any umpires out there). What would you change? What problems can you envisage for any suggested improvements? What will make the game better?
No different to any other key forward. Buddy gets about the same number of frees per game as Lloyd, Fevola etc. He just gives away a lot more.
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If this is true, then it proves to me that the people who are instructing the umpires must step aside and are well past their use-by date.
This thread was titled "Anti-Franklin umpiring..." as a joke. It was not about Lance Franklin. Thank you moderators for adding 2 pages of another thread that was about Lance Franklin to my thread, awesome.
