Booney wrote:am Bays wrote:CK and PG you idiots. SANFL should drop them for next week if you can’t watch the game properly.
Did you watch the umpire after the perfect holding the ball decision at the 3 min mark of the last. Contact was first on the upper arm and the port player lifted his arm to initiate high contact. As he ran into set the mark the umpire was indicating the Port player had raised the arm to make it look high.
Great umpiring, shite commentating.
Edit
Just replayed the free, first contact DEFINATELY below the shoulder.
Fairly passionate comment for a bystander, not sure they're idiots.
This happens at AFL level too so they're no orphans but unless you've been living under a rock mate, their are issues with community umpiring recruitment and retention.
I'm all for objective commentary when there are issues with umpiring but to go on about it for a full minute when they are wrong doesn't paint the SANFL or themselves in a good light when the umpire has been correct in his decision, has signalled to the crowd his decisions and provided an explanation.
As commentators before you go off about umpiring at least understand the laws and watch the umpires after a decisions as by and large they signal explanations for frees like that.
Commentators going off half cocked when the umpire is right is worse than AFL paying free kicks for hands out., IMO.