- Jul 27, 2013
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Has there ever been a better case study than yesterday to demonstrate that umpires run out there with preconceived decisions about who will and won't get frees? Queue all the usual blather about Ginnivan getting what he deserves - Selwood proved that was BS. The umps now seem too scared to give him obvious frees - he literally cannot get any regardless of how blatant. He is now at physical risk and some think that legitimate. How the hell can games be adjudicated like that? Then Curnow gets 6 - basically one for every marking contest he was in - whether there was any contact or not. I'm sure there are other examples of umpires stereotyping individuals - Weightman, Hawkins come to mind. Of all the complaints that we have about umpiring surely this is the biggest? I don't believe they cheat or the AFL tells them what to do - thats conspiracy crap. But somethings wrong.