Mega Thread Port Forum 'General AFL Talk' Thread Part 18

[Doctor Feel]

This was truly a treasure trove of demonstratable bad umpiring. It's not just paying touchy frees, it's not paying blatant free kicks against.

Haven't seen anything like it to be honest. It's one thing for Norf to get 1000 soft frees but it's another for a team to have rugby passes made under no pressure, not paid as throws lmao.

 

[StuMan]

 

[Schulzenfest]

Joel Selwood retiring would be so good for the game

The only other footballer who has actively made the game worse as much as Selwood has the last 20 years or so is probably James Hird. Nobody else comes close.

 

[Doctor Feel]

Gee. Current and past players making comments on social media says alot about the frustration.

 

[Eddie Dingle]

Gee. Current and past players making comments on social media says alot about the frustration.

****heads on Fox said if it happened in the first five minutes no one would be talking about it.

Nice deflection campaigners.

It cost Brisbane the game and EVERYONE knows it.

 

[Contested Marx]

Hopefully the scrutiny lasts all week and it probably will as Brisbane are the darlings at the moment

Just glad it wasn't port on the wrong side of it for a change or it would have not raised an eyebrow

 

[tribey]

fu**heads on Fox said if it happened in the first five minutes no one would be talking about it.

Nice deflection campaigners.

It cost Brisbane the game and EVERYONE knows it.

It’s never just one moment down there either.

Whether it’s the crowd, or the conditions, or the home team’s reputation, when they get the rub they really get the rub.

 

[Eddie Dingle]

It’s never just one moment down there either.

Whether it’s the crowd, or the conditions, or the home team’s reputation, when they get the rub they really get the rub.

Imagine being on the receiving end just once?

It’d be like waking up in 1993 as Lyle Lovett next to Julia Roberts on your honeymoon and thinking out loud “The **** just happened?”

 

[70sDinosaur]

All punches are now classified as International.

So no penalty then if the game was played in Australia?

 

[Eddie Dingle]

So no penalty then if the game was played in Australia?

Only in WA

 

[JohnHinckleyJr]

All I can say is thank **** the umpires no how to umpire the stand rule ....

Pfff HTB is so 90's

 

[HotSausage69]

Maybe we should give teams the option of reviewing any decision, maybe 1 time each per quarter. The only thing wrong with that is it breaks up the flow of play and allows teams time to set up the field of play.

 

[HotSausage69]

You're never going to get rid of every mistake, it's just about reducing the amount by as much as possible while still making the game watchable and not having too many delays. I think I could live with one review per quarter, try save it for an absolute howler. That's 8 possible mistakes that could be reduced per game, more importantly it gives a small opportunity to reject the notion of corruption and really, if it's a howler it shouldn't take longer than a minute. So you're only adding about 10 minutes to the game.

 

[tribey]

How on earth did Freo beat them in that 2013 final down there?

The count that day was 25-19 in their favour, btw.

 

[afl2004]

Hot take : umpires Smell

 

[GremioPower]

Why is the holding the ball/holding the man/dropping the ball rule so hard for umpires to interpretate? This sh*t should have been cleared up long before the AFL felt a need to fcuk around with any other rule.

It was fine, until the AFL tried to change the interpretation mid-season.

HTB was one of the first rules I’ve managed to grasp. True. The calling didn’t follow the wording in the rulebook, but that’s irrelevant.

Umpires would call it roughly similar all around. Mistakes were easy to spot because of that.

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Again, there should be 5 field umpires: 1 head (central); and 4 assistants (wing/arc). In any part of the field, there would always be three umpires near the ball.

Keep those crew together. Make them call games as a group. Let them work through inconsistencies during the week.

In the offseason, get umpires, players, and coaches together to analyze and think about what went right and wrong, and how to improve overall umpiring.

Any rule change should be tested in minor leagues before being applied in the AFL. No change in rule or interpretation should happen during the season.

Just do that, and the level of umpiring would get better. It will never be perfect, but it no longer would be the current mess.

 

[EskimoPAFC]

Honestly the way HTB is adjudicated now I have no idea how bad that no call was.

Context of the game and all that, but I reckon I saw Norf get away with way worse against us last week and the Bullflogs generally get 5 almost identical no-calls a week. Not really sure why this one is getting all the attention.

 

[EskimoPAFC]

The incorrect disposal HTB is a heckin'g lottery in general.

Yep exactly this.

And it's a lottery where late in the final quarter your odds drop dramatically.

 

[rumoursofwinter]

I'm sick of players blatantly choosing to chuck the ball. If there is a penalty for staging, there should be a penalty for chucking. Selwood is a cheat.

 

[OneGreatClub]

Mmmmm...who are they referring to, their supporters or the umps?

 

[AdamMarrett]

Last night is what happens when umpires are immune to criticism. Fox Footy couldn't change the subject post game quick enough, Chris Scott

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& Fagan wouldn't comment on it, instead we had BT being well BT about the incident.

The AFL will come out later and either say the decision was correct, or it will be barely be mentioned that th AFL said the umpires made a mistake, so there is no uproar.

If something similar happened in the Premier League, post game the affected manager would go at the decision, the panel post game go into the decision in detail, with a former referee and call it what it is, a shocking decision. The referees are accountable there, something the AFL umpires aren't here. It's a blight on the game.

The 2016 Grand Final was wrecked by umpires, as Sydney copped it raw in that game, at some point there needs to be a shift where the umpires are held accountable to the poor decisions they make. Coaches and players are, it's time the umpires are to.

 

[OneGreatClub]

Breaking News...Port get a mention in ex player article when it isn’t related to some misdemeanor by said player
Miss you Schiulz.

 

[powermacs]

Between yet another Selwood duck for an underserved free and a 50 for nothing, then that complete throw, I'd be fuming if I were the lions.

The good news is brisbane are 0-2 and it would seem Geelong are sh*t, that's two contenders that might be starting to slip.

That wasn’t even the worst non decision. 3rd quarter the Geelong player did a complete 360 while tackled and then palmed the ball to his team mate who kicked the goal. Absolutely robbed.

 

[philreich]

Looking forward to seeing how Coleman Medal favourite Tex Walker goes at the SCG today......

 

[yepits2020]

Looking forward to seeing how Coleman Medal favourite Tex Walker goes at the SCG today......

Nah!