Arry Gablett wrote:whufc wrote:There has been a lot of discussion in some of the other threads about umpiring standards in their various competitions.
I must say the umpiring this year in the b grade has been pretty decent...……...definitely not being the deciding factor in who wins games that's for sure.
You get the occasional bad mistake and the odd time where a couple of the umps have completely different interpretation especially of the holding the ball rule. Overall though there doing a pretty decent job all things considered. Umpire abuse definitely seems to be down as well which can only be a good thing.
umpiring in the NEFL has always been contentious, unfortunately lots of umpires are bound to clubs and a s a result they have always been seen as biased, eg BSR have a couple and BBH have a what some would see is a really biased help; Having umpired with them I don't think that in most cases this is true unfortunately history would say at times the decisions they make can be seen as biased. the BBH bloke unfortunately has a history of making the wrong decisions at the right time for his team
There was an A's game this year with lets say im assuming the umpire mentioned above, the opposition recieved 2 Free kicks to 12 from this particular umpire. Not saying the umpiring was completely biased and a lot of the free kicks were there, although the whistle tended to go away for the opposition for marginal frees which were in turn paid in the other direction. I don't mind if there are no frees or lots of frees but it needs to be consistent and 2-12 seems unrealistically one sided - I would expect somewhere within the realms of even half (i.e. 5 to 10) rather than 20%. (i.e. 2 to 12)