Let's clear one thing up.

[manureid]

The AFL hey. Pro sport run by amateurs.

 

[Steve Dore]

But they do have the advantage of standing 2 meters away. Absolute incompetence from a small individual who needed to grandstand and be part of the moment instead of doing his job. This Ryder one makes me more angry than the high free kick. HE's LOOKING RIGHT AT PADDY FFS

I haven't seen the replay yet so only saw that live and could not work out what the free was for as it was clear from where I sat in the Chappell Stand that Paddy had nominated as the Ports' ruck. What an absolute joke.

 

[edgie]

Or it could've been his weird facial tic thing:



(Audio NSFW)

So that thing I thought was a glitch on AFL Evolution actually isn't!

 

[Peck]

But they do have the advantage of standing 2 meters away. Absolute incompetence from a small individual who needed to grandstand and be part of the moment instead of doing his job. This Ryder one makes me more angry than the high free kick. HE's LOOKING RIGHT AT PADDY FFS

Now THAT is a terrible call.

 

[SwampRat]

Polec was clearly WOG


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You misspelled GOAT.

 

[Steve Dore]

Now THAT is a terrible call.

Paddy is a foward/ruckman. Why did the umpire think Paddy was in our backline at a ruck contest? Paddy clearly put his hand up to nominate but the umpire didn't even look at him. Pure incompetence.

 

[manureid]

The fact that 1 ruckman contests a ball up and it is a free is one of the great farces I have seen. Although I am sure the powers that be gave that the all clear.

 

[Steve Dore]

The fact that 1 ruckman contests a ball up and it is a free is one of the great farces I have seen. Although I am sure the powers that be gave that the all clear.

Yeah, if Ryder was essentially pinged for being the third man up who was the other Ports ruckman contesting the ball up?

 

[bomberclifford]

It's not ideal, but can't really keep going on accepting umpiring blunders which not only cost a game, but a final. Imagine if the final free kick wasn't a contentious high tackle free kick, but a handball which was deemed a throw or a dropping of the ball where the player actually got a boot to it. Would you want a game decided by a dodgy decision? Something has to be done.

Games have been decided by dodgy decisions since Adam played full back for Jerusalem.

I'd prefer that the AFL moves the other way; make umpires full-time, high level training and working with clubs, back them in to make good decisions, accept that not all decisions will be correct but it's the umpire's call, change rules to remove the 'technical' frees that can only be picked up by slow motion replays, penalise players for initiating head high contact post match, get rid of any rule that requires an umpire to read a players mind (eg 'deliberate' out of bounds), ...

 

[bomberclifford]

But they do have the advantage of standing 2 meters away. Absolute incompetence from a small individual who needed to grandstand and be part of the moment instead of doing his job. This Ryder one makes me more angry than the high free kick. HE's LOOKING RIGHT AT PADDY FFS

Having to nominate who your ruckman is each stoppage is moronic. Make the rule that only one person can compete in a ruck contest, who gives a **** if that changes while the ball is in the air.

 

[Steve Dore]

Games have been decided by dodgy decisions since Adam played full back for Jerusalem. ...

I always thought that was Moses.

Having to nominate who your ruckman is each stoppage is moronic. Make the rule that only one person can compete in a ruck contest, who gives a **** if that changes while the ball is in the air.

This would require the umpires to be able to count.

 

[Pappagallo]

Games have been decided by dodgy decisions since Adam played full back for Jerusalem.

Didn't he get a life ban for taking a prohibited substance?

 

[Janus]

After seeing the Ryder ruck infringement call - the fix was in.

 

[MitchIn3D]

What a surprise.. The AFL changes its rules every year so it can justify having a "rules committee" and then umpires, who the AFL won't make full time, make bad decisions based on those new rules.

It's not a case of everyone adjusting. Its September.

The AFL is one of the most unambiguously incompetent sporting organisations in the world. Make your officials full time employees. Tell us when they get it wrong. We can all see it. It's captured on camera. Everyone can see it was wrong.

At least have the guts to come out and say, "hey listen, in the heat of the moment it was called high but upon viewing the replay we concede that it was wrong. We apologise for our mistake and will endeavour to improve in the future." Cop your whack.

I can accept that people make mistakes. In a high pressure situation, the umpire in charge saw it as a free and paid it. Fine. Shit, but fine.

Don't come out and say "Yep, correct decision," when every single person in Australia can see, by the rules set out by your own f***ing committee, it was blatantly wrong.

F***

 

[Ford Fairlane]

Choco puked

https://www.sen.com.au/news/2017/09/11/that-made-me-vomit-williams-lashes-shuey-free-kick/

Former Port Adelaide coach Mark Williams says that the game-deciding free kick awarded to West Coast midfielder Luke Shuey ‘made him vomit’, labelling it the same as a dive.
“I understand Luke Shuey is a very good player, I understand he’s very smart – he picked the right time to do exactly what I might have done too.
“But it made me vomit because it is not a free.
“The umpires and the AFL have come and tried to say (that it was correct). There is no chance that is a free.
“It’s the same as a dive.”

 

[Ford Fairlane]

Tim Lane also says no free and the AFL are making the game unumpirable.

http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-ne...unt-demand-afl-attention-20170910-gyenye.html

You couldn't blame umpire Chris Donlon for awarding that match-determining free-kick on Saturday night in Adelaide. He saw high contact on Luke Shuey and penalised the tackler.
At the same time, you can't blame those of us who follow the game for being confused. Pre-season, the AFL couldn't have made its interpretation of such incidents plainer: "Where a tackle is reasonably applied and the ball carrier is responsible for the high contact via a shrug, drop, arm-lift or duck, play on should be called."
On that wording, Donlon was wrong. There was an arm-lift. Jared Polec and Port Adelaide were stiff.