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Free kick or not?
Posted: Sat May 28, 2022 9:10 am
by Lazza
Controversy about whether a free kick should have been to Prestia during the last second of last night’s game and whether it should have also been a 50 metre penalty. IMO technically it should have been both. Richmond were bloody stiff but cruelly, I just had to have a laugh
Posted: Sat May 28, 2022 7:55 pm
by What'sinaname
If the siren hadnt have gone, it’s a 50. But as the siren had gone, the action was in response to the siren rather than to the whistle.
Sadly, there is no technically argument in the game as unlike most sports, AFL rules are more interpretations than rules.
Rules would be better and would eliminate the problems with deliberate out of bounds, holding the ball etc. we allow umpires to have too much discretion in the game. Rather than officiators, they are decision makers who influence the game.
Posted: Sat May 28, 2022 11:42 pm
by Lazza
What'sinaname wrote:If the siren hadnt have gone, it’s a 50. But as the siren had gone, the action was in response to the siren rather than to the whistle.
Sadly, there is no technically argument in the game as unlike most sports, AFL rules are more interpretations than rules.
Rules would be better and would eliminate the problems with deliberate out of bounds, holding the ball etc. we allow umpires to have too much discretion in the game. Rather than officiators, they are decision makers who influence the game.
Of course they do. I have never got the logic of the “umpires don’t influence the result” brigade. Every single decision they make influences the result of the game, including the decisions not to pay free kicks, eg Maynard in the last few minutes of the 2018 GF. My biggest hate is umpiring inconsistency during a game. Having 3 umpires doesn’t help but I totally think that they are needed in the modern game with very quick ball movement by fast players.
Another inconsistent ruling that confuses me is that they pay “deliberate out of bounds” for a player intentionally putting the ball out over the boundary line but in a ruck contest when the ball is thrown in, a ruckman can deliberately punch the ball back out without a free kick to the opposition, and the commentators will say that the team “gained ground”. Go figure