03-01-2020, 09:33 PM
(03-01-2020, 08:51 PM)LP link Wrote: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 were 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!
That is a bad rule LP; a 50m penalty for an inconsequential act is bizarre! However, I’m in favour of 50m penalties when a player is taken high after (or during) marking. After Polly Farmer’s CTE diagnosis, I expected the head to be sacrosanct once more (although the soft penalty handed out to Williams suggests otherwise).
“Why don’t you knock it off with them negative waves? Why don’t you dig how beautiful it is out here? Why don’t you say something righteous and hopeful for a change?” Oddball