Demon Juke wrote:Lot of games today didn't have enough umpires!! Some umpires didn't even turn up. This is the problem with reducing all the team numbers to less players, then you require a lot more umpires to umpire more games. Which the SANFL don't have.
Had a young lad who plays 16’s at Ingle Farm - he did our 8’s game then raced and did another game at Pooraka and then other umpire didn’t show then had to come back and do a 12’s game.. he was spent and had his own game to play.
Then 13’s game only one umpire showed poor guy was old and overweight and Ingle Farm is a big ground.. but he battled hard.
Lady told me today there was about 25 spots left unfilled this week - SANFL have cited a range of unforeseen unavailabilities as the cause.