PK12 wrote:Flipper wrote:First off i have to say we had some good umpiring on the weekend (CBC v Mitcham) the strawberry blonde with no eyebrows did a great job. Gave away a pretty soft red card but in saying that was a silly late hit by the Mitcham bloke. Doesnt deserve games. Before the game was started we had the match day official run out and ask the umps what was going on as we were running 5 mins late and the ump said he was waiting for the players. So the match day official had to yell out to his team to get in position. Apparently its the players responsibility to know when to get into position. The umps wont be calling the players to get into position. Also we had the umps doing the centre square ball ups outside the circle. They decided it was too mundy. Every ball up the position would change, a lot of the time to even worse off positions than the designated centre circle.
Can't say the strawberry blonde with no eyebrows did a great job. He was inconsistant all day. Turns out the fella who got a shocking red card also got 2 weeks at the tribunal tonight. I thought a yellow card would have been a bit harsh considering some of the other things people get away with but a red card in the second quarter and 2 games on top of that? Thats nearly 3 games for a late bump that even the CBC lads didnt take much notice of. I'm sure if any of the cbc lads were that angry with it they wouldve gone up to him and given him hell! Does anyone know if their is an appeal system or anything like that at the tribunal?
Absolutely laughable to be given a card at all for that.
It makes no sense to me why two young and inexperienced umpires are scehduled to officate the one match. How hard could it be to pair one with a more experienced umpire?? Absolutely amazed this doesn't happen. The only reason I can think of is that the umpires are asking to be put with their mates and if so that's bollocks. As far as I'm concerned they are paid to umpire by the league and so should go where they're told. They might even learn something, such as the difference between a bump in a contest resulting in a player loosing their footing and a cardable offence.
Given that I can't think of any successful occasions where a player has appealed his suspension when an umpire has reported them, I'm peeved that a teammate now sits out two weeks of footy because some lad thought that wearing white meant he was the third team people go to see at the footy.
