05-02-2022, 05:00 AM
(05-02-2022, 04:38 AM)WASurfer date Wrote:I feel sorry for the players having to continually change their approach to the ball for the ever changing interpretations. A classic example was in the Geelong v Dockers game. All pre-season they were talking about players who drop the knee or shrug a tackle to force high contact will now be taken to have prior opportunity and will be penalised for holding the ball. Late in the game when scores were very close, Selwood did his usual thing...dropped the knees, shrugged the tackler's arm up to force high contact and the umpire awarded him a free kick. You could see the frustration on the Docker's faces....Agreed, in my opinion this type of inconsistency in decision making is far worse than getting a basic decision wrong.
It's why I laugh at the idea of even more umpires, the problem now is we have too many and the rules are interpreted too many different ways!
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"