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Putting the Whistle Away
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- Mar 3, 2022
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The crap at the end about Brisbane ducking is just ridiculous in isolation. Collingwood, led by Daicos, wer3 ducking just as much. If you aren't prepared to speak objectively then go back under your bridge
Lol, they got 4-5 free kicks from ducking or throwing the head back when no head high contact was made…
Yet Bigfooty will tell you it was all Daicos who didn’t even get the free for the duck but the secondary whack across the face…
- Feb 27, 2011
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The AFL has always felt a little bit amateurish to me due to the umpiring.
Like how a player will get given less time behind the mark in the 4th quarter of a close game compared to in the 1st quarter, or the 4th quarter of a game that is a blowout.
It just reeks of unprofessionalism that the rules are bent at the whim of the umpires.
The deliberate OOB is another joke, the umpires know full well at times that a kick is a shank or has taken a sideways bounce and they call deliberate. It is supposed to be about sufficient intent and they turn it into a situational tool.
Hard to take it seriously at times.
sports_fan39
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Can someone explain to me, its annoyed me for the longest time, when a player has had time to dispose of the ball but it gets 'knocked loose / spilled out' why is that not ever paid as holding the ball? is that not incorrect disposal
Should be - comes down to interpretation
- Jul 15, 2022
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Comes down to the club and the player.
Not in my experience (as an umpire) but that’s your opinion
- Feb 14, 2014
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I am almost 100% sure it used to be until about 2013ish. I think there was a interpretation change that was made for that. I can't even name a HTB free kick that was paid where I thought it was incorrect because the "ball was knocked free" but I have seen plenty that havent been paid using the same thinking
sports_fan39
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i understand that, but isnt the rule if you dont dispose of it legally its HTB? if you have had time to dispose of it correctly
Earlier. Was around 2003 they changed it. A young chance Bateman got tackled (or rather the ball was knocked out of his hands), and ball got paid. Cost hawks a finals spot
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