Mr Beefy wrote:jo172 wrote:footys the winner wrote:jo172 wrote:
One would hope not unless some kind of grand conspiracy was uncovered.
Surely some sort of punishment. Missing out on the rest of the finals? All you need to do is rewatch the game to see that 1 umpire had an "off day" and made a lot of bad decisions, both ways might I add, but mainly toward one team.
The Umpires have a coach and observers whose job it is to deal with things like this appropriately.
Have to trust the system will work itself out.
If it gets to the point where there is a witch hunt for every umpire who has a report/card chucked out after the fact we might end up with some very gun shy umpires which isn't exactly a palpable alternative.
Do you mean palatable alternative? gun shy might be better than trigger happy
I do.
And given the emphasis on player safety and eradicating (as far as possible) unsavoury acts (which I don't suggest the one under question to be) I suggest trigger happy is the League's far preferred position to gun-shy.
A suggestion by the Umpire's Coach that if there is doubt the Umpire should be utilising 25 m penalties/yellow cards before going to a red, and that this will be considered in assessing performance when selecting this week's panel should be more than sufficient in my view.
For the record there were a number of senior umpires observing the game on Saturday so I'm sure it'll be considered at Umpire's training during the week.