No Oppo Supporters OPPOSITION OBSERVATION XXXIX

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Area51 said:
I didn't watch the game, only this clip coz it was posted. But generally the game has become about playing for the umpires as much as anything. The umps have become so trigger happy that it makes it worthwhile, if umps just let stuff go more there wouldn't be as much playing for the umps eye - eg. taking a dive when tackled to get in the back, tossing your head back when tackled to induce a high free kick, ducking into the tackle. Winning a free kick is way more advantageous than simply winning the contest because of stand. It's another example of an unintended consequences that the AFL didn't think of when they changed the rule - increased incentive to play for frees. As for the 50m rule, well that's even better, 50m of territory and retain possession in a free kick scenario. The balance between umpire impact on the game and player impact on the game is out of whack.
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Agree fully !

Except what should actually happen, and it's in the rules, is that a free kick should be paid against the player faking. They just never pay it. If they did they'd stamp it out in about three weeks.

Headline we will never see - "The umpires are clamping down on players faking for free kicks this season. Flops, drops and plops will be penalised with a free kick to the opposition player. This includes players who 'flap their arms like a seagull' calling for deliberate out of bounds or holding the ball. Where there are more than three players and up to seven players on one team guilty of this behaviour (we all know who you are) there will be a 50m penalty applied".

Three weeks of free kicking the divers, skivers and fliers, I tell ya and players would keep their feet instead of ducking to draw a high free, stop shrugging their shoulders to draw high frees, stop grabbing at their head like they've been snipered at the slightest touch, stop flying through the air (to the sound of a popular riff) having received no body contact let alone a push in the back, stop tossing their heads back when tackled to draw a free and most importantly stop going into contested situations leading with their head to draw a high free.

These things have become a blight on the game and yet practitioners of these "arts" are rewarded with free kicks, free goals, free 50m penalities when their cheating behaviour is pointed out. Even more galling is that these players mostly aren't called out and instead glorified over entire careers for their "bravery" (when really they were a diving, ducking little sniper). Not mentioning any names.

Games are won and lost, careers are made and the fans get ripped off and disillusioned. Umpires could be better informed, better trained and better for the game if they were fully professional like the players. IMO it's the number one thing holding back the game. Some of the umpiring is a cruel joke. We've all experienced it. If the AFL want to attract more umpires to the game, at the very least make the top level umpires professional. Better pay, better umpiring, less criticism, more umpires. It staggers the mind that the boys club can't see this.

Imagine if the umpires didn't fall for it seeming nearly every time and either didn't pay those cheat frees or applied the rule (geez they don't mind applying the most obscure rules when it suits their agenda !) and pay a free kick for diving/faking. Imagine if the umpires completely abandoned "tiggy touchwood" frees (infringements that are so minor as to have little or no actual effect on the outcome of a contest and lack a feel for the game) and only paid those obvious free kicks that impinge on another player's fairness of contest or safety.

Imagine that. What a great game that would be !

Almost like a FINAL where for some bizarre reason, the rules of the season are magically redrawn and umpires "let them play". FMD
 
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Vassp said:
Why is Geelong always in the eight ? :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:
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Because when they were about to slip down the ladder they’ve had one of the best players in the competition walk through their door … twice.

They have done exceedingly well and you can’t help but be impressed.. and Chris Scott clearly knows how to coach as they often win even with a bunch of spuds in their team - they’ve won this year with a midfield containing Bruhn, Atkins, Parfitt, Mannagh and Clark FFS….

Whilst the big gorilla in the goal square has a pulse they’ll remain thereabouts … but when Hawkins retires, the whole structure of their forward line goes down the toilet IMO, and that’ll see the end of them as a finals team.


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Why have Western Bulldogs persisted with Beverage? I get 2016, however since then they’ve under performed year after year with him as their coach.
 
lizard man said:
Apparently has a great footy mind, brilliant with the tactical side of the game
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Really? Cause I don’t see it myself and it feels like the players couldn’t really give a shit about him as coach.
 
Wow umpire screwed up, probably would have kicked the goal if the umpire had called the play-on which was what should have been called.
 

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lizard man said:
He’s been their coach for a long time now and a coaches message can become stale after a while ….. this happened with Hardwick towards the end
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Yeah, at least Hardwick had the decency to leave, should have left a different way of course, or at least not taken up a massive contract offer 4 or 5 months later, but still left when his message was no longer getting through.
 
Area51 said:
I didn't watch the game, only this clip coz it was posted. But generally the game has become about playing for the umpires as much as anything. The umps have become so trigger happy that it makes it worthwhile, if umps just let stuff go more there wouldn't be as much playing for the umps eye - eg. taking a dive when tackled to get in the back, tossing your head back when tackled to induce a high free kick, ducking into the tackle. Winning a free kick is way more advantageous than simply winning the contest because of stand. It's another example of an unintended consequences that the AFL didn't think of when they changed the rule - increased incentive to play for frees. As for the 50m rule, well that's even better, 50m of territory and retain possession in a free kick scenario. The balance between umpire impact on the game and player impact on the game is out of whack.
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I feel like you’ve read my mind!

So often, it feels like the umpires, rather than the players, determining the flow and, perhaps, the outcome of the game.
 
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Yep now I’m officially convinced, the umpires have an obligatory amount of goals they have to review per game…for the drama of course.
 
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