(03-02-2019, 10:19 PM)flyboy77 link Wrote:Worse than atrocious....
Makes an already ordinary spectacle entirely unwatchable imo.
I think it's a deliberate act to adjust the umpiring to prevent too many stoppages. I accept that it appears to be outside the rules, but there are so few girls who can break/shrug tackles or get clean disposals away under pressure that if they didn't call play on we'd be in a rolling maul for most of the game time. If the umpired like this for the men players like Cripps, Franklin and Dangerfield would be on another level to everyone else.
The only thing I have a real gripe with is they are less strict of the prior opportunity thing, we see girls get run down and they are still allowing them a couple of seconds to dispose, as opposed to the men who are immediately pegged(Which is the way I assume we all think it should be once you've carried the ball for even a step or two and get effectively tackled it should be penalised.)
Of course the inconsistency is a killer, Pies fans would be livid about that last quarter free inside our F50 to Walker for the tackle, there must have been two dozen of these throughout the game that were not rewarded, why then?
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"