Q. wrote:HH3 wrote: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.
None of those rules apply at ammo level
On Saturday, this guy told me they did.
Last night he told me they don't.
Bloody maggot can't even call it right in his own lounge room.
Lucky too, coz chances are Im filling in for the D's this weekend.
