auto wrote:Smasha wrote:george wrote:Good luck to all teams on the weekend. It should be a cracker of a Div 1 GF. Yes Cougar all clubs had to supply a square leg umpire in the Semi Finals. But i believe all games this week will have 2 independent umpires.
yeah cause semi,s are not important enough to have two umpires ???????????
Def have to have 2 independent umpires. AN ABSOLUTE MUST. In the Semi last year we had all the problems in the world umpiring ourselves (i still laugh at the opposition suggestion i was a cheat for not walking on an LBW), and this year as well proved we need INDEPENDENT umpires at both ends.....you writing this all down exec members?
In the PDCA, each club has to nominate an umpire per team for finals, given the fact that there will 32 umpiring positions that will need filling during semi-final weekend it means some of the nominated umpires will be appointed games in the lower divisions, generally grades that their won club isn't involved in.
If the nominated player is playing finals then he can be excluded, it works pretty well.