Re: Junior Football
Posted: Thu May 22, 2014 9:03 am
bulldogs wrote:I'm tied up with a junior football side . Umpires at junior football are a given that you keep your mouth closed but it does become very hard. Green shirt umpires should be given every encouragement and support.
We had two orange shirts on the weekend and by gee they were pretty ordinary. They really need to know the rules of which grade there umpiring. Our match was a under 13 game and you are allowed to bounce the ball as many times as you like. The umpire picked the player up for bouncing the ball more then twice and awarded a free kick. Some very dubious frees and non frees. Had many games last year that you are left dumbfounded. Sometimes it feels like the umps are evening up the game.
I agree with you, but it must be hard when you're umpiring 5 games in a row with the rules slightly tweaking for each game. You can understand how mistakes will occasionally happen.