(04-11-2022, 10:53 PM)kruddler date Wrote:FWIW, Patrick Cripps is =20th in free kicks for this year. He did miss over half the game on the weekend (which works out to be 1/8th less potential time on ground than others.The vast bulk of Cripps free kicks are for being held, the one thing that is dead set obvious to an umpire is a taggers arm around the waist or a stretched jumper. He's hardly had a free kick for high contact, which seems ironic given the opposition rip his head off multiple times a game and have to effectively reach up to do it!
Cripps like Prespakis puts his head over the footy to pick it up in traffic and get's stuff all protection, Selwood cleans up on frees in the same circumstance! It can't be size related, or else Prespakis at the other end of the spectrum would have been a monty for 10 frees a game!
Did you notice how much high contact we copped last weekend without a free kick being awarded, how about Owies or Setterfield? They weren't just high contact they were also front on contact and it was play on, it's untenable three field umpires can miss such obvious infringements! We hate Scott for his whinging, but perhaps it's time we did some of our own, at least just asking the questions in a suitable public forum.
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