(03-01-2020, 10:10 AM)DJC date Wrote:An undisciplined act that caused a reversal. Simmo should have received a 50m penalty for being taken out after marking and, had that been awarded, Doc may not have been so demonstrative. Our leaders should fly the flag but they should also show discipline and not gift the opposition an inside 50.I hate those 50m penalties, I wish they weren't part of the game at all!
At the weekend we gave away two on the near wing that probably ended up being closer to 75m penalties that resulted in shots at goal, one was on the back half of the wing and ended up 10m inside the 50m arc! Then a little later we got a free kick on the HFF just 20m outside our F50 arc and two Freo players ran right past our player unaccompanied by any Carlton players and nothing was awarded.
It's a rule that umpires rarely get right and it changes the coarse of games!
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"