Dogwatcher wrote:I dunno if that's fair.
We have club umpires in local B grade matches in the Riverland and most of them are pretty good. And in fact from my experience, there's less complaints about them then the normal umps.
bit different in the city DW. just speaking on exeperience in div4Rs & C4s there are some blantant cheats out there. in fact our club ump has gone up on report for striking his counterpart a 2 weeks ago. the case is still before the tribunal. Also have seen some players abuse the hell out of there own ump. 9/10 times nothing will happen as the umpires can't be bothered turning up on a Wed night to SAAFL house
I would assume we all have the same problems throughout the club appointed umpires.