Umpires

[Big Phil]

Man I hate it when I leave the gates open!

I bet you there's a few people out there who like it when you leave the back gate open

Big Phil...

[scott]

R. Williams did umpire an underage game last year between the Eagles and Central at Woodville. Wasn't to bad.

All part of the youth development. He umpired Norwood v West Adelaide U/17 last year too. Colin Rowston umpired Glenelg v someone U/17 last year too and I believe is umpiring U/17 this week as well.

[whufc]

The SANFL umpires may not be the best but atleast they have a million times better interpretations to work with compared to the AFL

[Wedgie]

You not really annoys me about umpires and its not the umpires fault, its whoever directs them at what to do.
The way they'll all bloody stand in the corridor looking into the sun, all 3 of them, none of them being able to see incidents clearly.
Was highlighted again today when Damon White was caught cold near the boundary and tackled to ground, he knew he was gone so jokingly just threw the ball over the boundary line.
The umpire with his hand over his eyes just waved play on and got the boundary umpire to throw it in.
At that stage North were about 80 - 90 pts up and Damon, the South bloke who tackled him and the boundary had a nice old laugh over it.
Either get one umpire the opposite side of play to the rest or bring in 4 boundary umpires, cut back to 2 field umpires and give them all powers.
3 blind mice was so apt today when the sun was low in the sky.
But as said, not their fault, just the fault of whichever person tells them to position themselves like that.

[bayman]

You not really annoys me about umpires and its not the umpires fault, its whoever directs them at what to do.
The way they'll all bloody stand in the corridor looking into the sun, all 3 of them, none of them being able to see incidents clearly.
Was highlighted again today when Damon White was caught cold near the boundary and tackled to ground, he knew he was gone so jokingly just threw the ball over the boundary line.
The umpire with his hand over his eyes just waved play on and got the boundary umpire to throw it in.
At that stage North were about 80 - 90 pts up and Damon, the South bloke who tackled him and the boundary had a nice old laugh over it.
Either get one umpire the opposite side of play to the rest or bring in 4 boundary umpires, cut back to 2 field umpires and give them all powers.
3 blind mice was so apt today when the sun was low in the sky.
But as said, not their fault, just the fault of whichever person tells them to position themselves like that.

the south player was gerard bennett

[spell_check]

I didn't see it, but apparently Passador gave Richard Williams a bit of a hip and shoulder thinking he was a Sturt player. Williams saw the funny side of it, and both just went on with the match.

[drebin]

You not really annoys me about umpires and its not the umpires fault, its whoever directs them at what to do.
The way they'll all bloody stand in the corridor looking into the sun, all 3 of them, none of them being able to see incidents clearly.
Was highlighted again today when Damon White was caught cold near the boundary and tackled to ground, he knew he was gone so jokingly just threw the ball over the boundary line.
The umpire with his hand over his eyes just waved play on and got the boundary umpire to throw it in.
At that stage North were about 80 - 90 pts up and Damon, the South bloke who tackled him and the boundary had a nice old laugh over it.
Either get one umpire the opposite side of play to the rest or bring in 4 boundary umpires, cut back to 2 field umpires and give them all powers.
3 blind mice was so apt today when the sun was low in the sky.
But as said, not their fault, just the fault of whichever person tells them to position themselves like that.

the south player was gerard bennett

That would be one of the worse "non" decision I have seen in a long time. There was a case for holding the ball and then secondly a deliberate out of bounds. I looked at where the field umpire was and he was middle of the corridor way too far away and maybe hsi view was slighlty blocked re the out of bounds but surely he could have payed holding the ball - he must have been able to work that out?

[zipzap]

Boo to the Torrens whiners in and in front of the grandstand (many wearing Crows hats which gives the game away) complaining vociferously about biased umpiring in favour of Sturt all day yesterday when stats in the paper show 25 - 18 in favour of the hybrids, which is as it appeared on the day.

At one stage the old geezers in front of me were screaming blue murder when Chambo (or "Bloody Chalmers" as the dementia kicked in) got a rare free for having his head ripped off. When I pointed out it was in fact completely there, Grampa Camry gathered up his teeth and reluctantly agreed it was the correct decision but shouldn't have been paid because his team hadn't been given earlier frees in front of goals. As though there should be a tally board of equal frees at the end of the day.

Thought Dickie Williams umpired well yesterday, despite pinging Nelson for a throw when he had his back to Williams who was 20 metres away. There was another near-decision where it looked like a player was going to be caught but wasn't - Williams put the whistle in his mouth and got ready to blow* but reversed his decision before it happened which I thought was good thinking on the fly, even though he copped loads of abuse from the vinyls.

Much as it's fun to bag Williams (and it is - even if he is not actually umpiring!) whenever watching a televised game closely I reckon he's usually always right.

[once_were_warriors]

Now Now ZipZap no need to be bitter.

I love it when we play Sturt , all those silver spoons that are left on the ground after the match , quite a collection over the last 5 years.

[zipzap]

Now Now ZipZap no need to be bitter.

I love it when we play Sturt , all those silver spoons that are left on the ground after the match , quite a collection over the last 5 years.

If it's bitter to remark on dim-witted supporters who don't seem to understand that there are two teams out there, mistake the 2007 Ken Farmer Medallist with a hack from Ethelton who threw his career away and, like many other tool Crows fans, call out 'Baaallll!' at every inappropriate opportunity, are dressed head to toe in candy-striped Toyota-endorsing product and to top it all off, leave 10 minutes early so they can get out the car park quickest - then yes, I am one very sour puss indeed!

[Wedgie]

Well after viewing the game from the same part of the oval today as I did at Prospect yesterday I can honestly say it must be an umpiring thing as most of the time the umpire in the pocket stood on the grandstand side of play so the sun wasn't in his eyes, common sense which the umpire (Ralston I think his name was) at Prospect had none of.
Either that or the umpire/s today disobeyed the plan they're given and well done if they did.

[SnappyTom]

Well after viewing the game from the same part of the oval today as I did at Prospect yesterday I can honestly say it must be an umpiring thing as most of the time the umpire in the pocket stood on the grandstand side of play so the sun wasn't in his eyes, common sense which the umpire (Ralston I think his name was) at Prospect had none of.
Either that or the umpire/s today disobeyed the plan they're given and well done if they did.

I thought they were pretty good today (even Pfeiffer!).

I agree substantially with your views on Umpiring - you learn a lot more going to neutral games, where the rose colored glasses don't taint. We all too often see things from our teams paradigm, and are seldom within 20m of the play to see exactly what happens.

9/10 today at the Bay from ST...

[stampy]

the umpiring today was absolute shite

[am Bays]

Sorry Stampy from what I saw today they were OK but as I said elsewhere I only saw half the game...

[stampy]

Man I hate it when I leave the gates open!

I bet you there's a few people out there who like it when you leave the back gate open

Big Phil...

not greek are ya?

[Big Phil]

the umpiring today was absolute shite

You must have been talking about that fella who did the mini league game there stampy...

For the first time in a long time, I thought the umpiring was good enough today to not play any influence on the outcome of the game. To be honest, at times I didn't even notice they were out there. The same can't be said of course for some of the Snouts Louts who were in that pocket where McConnell thought he had to put his nomination in for a GOLD LOGIE...

Yes, as always there were a few soft, ticky touchwood frees paid, probably made worst by the fact they were in front of the snouts or members in the grandstand, so naturally the Bays fans are gonna felt hard done by, despite their team getting up for the win because they were simply the better team on the day with no major influences by the men in white...

Porbably wont get to say this much this year but well done to the 3 men in white on the weekend...

Big Phil...