whufc wrote:The Bedge wrote:Umpiring is a tough gig, and i appreciate these guys are giving up their Saturdays to have a crack at it - no umpires no games and all that.. but when you're earning $130 a week and umpiring one of the higher grades, then you need to be held to account, and there is an expectation to uphold a standard.
If an umpire cant maintain standards, how can they control a game?
Yeah agree.
Whilst I love not having to umpire ive found the self umpiring we have up here has been of a higher standard then the majority pdca umpires I encountered. Some absolute doozies in PDCA. Love being given out LBW with the ball pitching a foot outside leg stump to be told 'I don't agree with that rule'. I don't think ill ever get over it. Whilst cross bat is village as not every cross bat shot that hits your pads is LBW either, it still has to be hitting the stumps lol.
At least self umpired you had an expectation that unless it was plumb it wasn't going to be give. Also every single person up here walks on edges so that's not an issue.
Read the above with much interest - & while its not PDCA related, its kind of relevant.
As an older guy, now playing in the lower grades, I am experiencing the self umpiring now much more.
In my younger days, I'd pay my ump fee's so bugger it, I wasn't walking if I knicked one. The penguin can make that call. That said I had my share of "ordinary" calls by paid umps over the journey! Got away with a couple too...
On Saturday my team batted first, and I am opening the dig. I knick one about 5th ball, tuck the bat under my arm walk off & think...... well that made for a long day.... wonder what's running in the 2nd at Caulfield?
Our inning continues, and skip wanders out to bat at 5..... 1st seed he is struck from what even looked from square on, fairly adjacent....our bloke (umpiring) stuck the finger up (as he should) and skip was gonski.
Their turn to bat ( a team of sub-continentals) and about 4th over, bloke plays back is hit on the shin, and its only going to knock over middle. I field at slip, and I really don't appeal all that often. It's a waste of energy, particularly when you get the feeling..... this mob aren't going to give them. Anyway the whole lot of us are up..... nothing from old mate umpiring..... a further enquiry..... not out. Skip wanders over and makes a polite enquiry as to what it was missing. Nothing says old mate..... he hit it....... FFS the blokes bat was in another postcode when he was rapped on the pads.
I did a bit of research yesterday..... this team, umpiring themselves, and sitting 2nd on the ladder are yet to give an LBW all season. The average across all other teams is 3-4 so far. I'm sure we all don't give the close-ish ones..... but the dead set plum ones.... seriously if it's out, give it.
I take delight in knowing this team of flogs will get a shock come finals, when they get neutral umps, who will give LBW's, and all of a sudden their tail enders who have seldom batted, come in under pressure. Seen it all before.
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