by HH3 » Mon Jun 26, 2017 4:49 pm
I watched this game with someone who umpires in the ammo's, and I asked him about all the newer rules.
I've played a handful of games over the last 3 seasons, (last one was about halfway through 2016) but if the ammo umps have to call what the AFL ones do, I honestly wouldn't last too many games without getting in trouble now.
The big ones are the diving at the legs, the pinning the arm in a tackle and the deliberate out of bounds.
My bread and butter as a back pocket player is the smother, the tackle, and using the boundry when Im trying to clear it.
He told me if I smothered the ball cleanly, but I followed through into his legs, its a free to him. Bullshit.
I know pinning the arms illegal now, but that used to be a textbook tackle. Hold their wrist, they can't handball. A holding the ball free kick every time.
And the boundry ones bullshit. If i kick it halfway down the wing and it goes out, just throw it in.
And don't get me started on them never calling incorrect disposal.
I got so angry watching the AFL the other night I ended up talking to the girls instead of watching it with him.
I TOLD YOU SO
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