AFL week 8 - A round of consummate pertinence.

[mots02]

And so predictable from AFL. Could have got $1.01 on that being the response

https://twitter.com/tommorris32/status/ ... 32832?s=21

So the umpires are now even allowed to apply interpretations to rules that are clearly written?

[FlyingHigh]

Rampe on the post is a free kick every day of the week. Ordinary from the umpire.

Correct. Just saw this now as I didn’t watch last night - how did none of the umpires see it?

Massive please explain owed to Essendon

Especially as at other times the "non-officiating" umpires are so keen to pay in-play frees from 50m away that an umpire 10m away chooses to let go.

[FlyingHigh]

And so predictable from AFL. Could have got $1.01 on that being the response

https://twitter.com/tommorris32/status/ ... 32832?s=21

Predictable? ******* disgrace more like it.

A "warning" is sufficient for such a deliberate act, yet they give away 50m penalties for players inadvertently setting foot in some wide "protected zone" that doesn't have any influence on the the game.

[woodublieve12]

[Booney]

Rampe on the post is a free kick every day of the week. Ordinary from the umpire.

Correct. Just saw this now as I didn’t watch last night - how did none of the umpires see it?

Massive please explain owed to Essendon

The umpire did see it and told him to get down!

[Booney]

:lol:

Makes up for the '16 Grand Final. Call it even.

[Jim05]

No ones saying overturn the result or anything and we didn’t deserve to win but Christ would it hurt the AFL to actually come out and admit they got something wrong?
Stand down the umpire for a few weeks aswell

[woodublieve12]

:lol:

Makes up for the '16 Grand Final. Call it even.

Not quite but we will take it

[FlyingHigh]

:lol:

Why do you think it is funny that an organisation that has some significance in you life is so often completely incompetent?

I'm not an Essendon supporter

[LMA]

No ones saying overturn the result or anything and we didn’t deserve to win but Christ would it hurt the AFL to actually come out and admit they got something wrong?
Stand down the umpire for a few weeks aswell

My inexperienced 15yo daughter got stood down for a week because some asshole scammed her into giving him more change. Do the same for a clear error from an experienced well paid official and admit you're wrong AFL.

[woodublieve12]

:lol:

Why do you think it is funny that an organisation that has some significance in you life is so often completely incompetent?

I'm not an Essendon supporter

I respect the AFL reasoning and we should all move on

[woodublieve12]

How was the umpires letting Myers take his kick after marking it after the siren?

[LMA]

To be honest didn't see it, turned it over to the soccer after my tenth Longmire yawn

[FlyingHigh]

:lol:

Why do you think it is funny that an organisation that has some significance in you life is so often completely incompetent?

I'm not an Essendon supporter

I respect the AFL reasoning and we should all move on

Ha ha, very good

[mots02]

:lol:

Why do you think it is funny that an organisation that has some significance in you life is so often completely incompetent?

I'm not an Essendon supporter

I respect the AFL reasoning and we should all move on from the 2016 Grand Final. on

EFA

[woodublieve12]

:lol:

Why do you think it is funny that an organisation that has some significance in you life is so often completely incompetent?

I'm not an Essendon supporter

I respect the AFL reasoning and we should all move on from the 2016 Grand Final. on

EFA

Nah

[Booney]

No ones saying overturn the result or anything and we didn’t deserve to win but Christ would it hurt the AFL to actually come out and admit they got something wrong?
Stand down the umpire for a few weeks aswell

This.

[gadj1976]

I didn't see it. I've seen the snippet on replay but did he 'intentionally shake' the post? I think that's the sticking point.

[Spargo]

I hope the media make a huge issue out of this & go on about it all week.
It is simply not good enough.
At the end of the day, the umpire deliberately chose not to pay a blatantly obvious free kick which he witnessed, instead choosing to “warn” the player twice. It is irrelevant that maybe Sydney were the better team on the night, countless teams lose during the season when they’ve outplayed their opponents. The fact of it is, this umpire mistake cost Essendon the match.

[amber_fluid]

Nothing in it, play on.







I might have tipped the swans!